The Transgender Persons Amendment Act introduced in the Lok Sabha today is absolutely unconstitutional. GoI is excluding from protection persons with self-identified gender and entrenching the authority of "medical experts" in direct violation of NALSA. This Bill must not pass.
Got a fellowship to attend the UN Regional Course on International Law for Asia-Pacific which concluded last week!
Had a great time with amazing profs and fellow participants from 21 countries 🫶🏽
Received a fellowship to attend the United Nations Regional Course in International Law in Bangkok 🥳
Excited to get back into student mode after 4 years and learn from IL stalwarts and other practitioners from Asia Pacific!
#RCIL#UnitedNations
If this was a student writing this in an answer in a Family Law I exam, this judge would have been failed with a lashing in the comments about why no proper preparation was undertaken prior to the test.
The kind folks at @queerbeat_media have re-published the article (with a stunning artwork) that had originally appeared on @Verfassungsblog as part of a symposium on Indian constitutionalism in the last decade. All those who’d bookmarked the earlier post can do so again 🐮
"The magic of international law is that it turns every fiasco into a prelude to its own success story. Yes this awful thing happened; but look how we punished it, look how we learned from it."
https://t.co/RCvzLXO7aW
Dummies guide to 'Dalit History Month':
1. Some wise men have been claiming that caste is an western construct/import. That might be just some rubbish talk. But at least we can be sure that 'Dalit History Month' has been imported from the west's 'Black History Month'. 1/16