Domestic violence laws in India and the discourse around fabricated cases: implications for women's human rights

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作者
Satyogi, Pooja [1 ]
机构
[1] Dr BR Ambedkar Univ Delhi, Sch Law Governance & Citizenship, Delhi, India
关键词
human rights; domestic violence; India; law; policy; protection of women; discrimination; South Asia; family; judicial reform; backlash against women;
D O I
10.1504/IJHRCS.2024.137721
中图分类号
D9 [法律]; DF [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
India is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and has attempted to ensure that legislative and judicial reforms work toward ending violence against women. Yet, as this paper will show, it is often the institutions of the state that compromise the full reach of the law by targeting and maligning women who use the law to secure their lives. In this contrastive field of increasing legislation to secure women's human rights and doubting women's intention when they do work with the law, lies the fate of the litigious Indian women. This article will delineate how the Indian judiciary has tended to frame litigious Indian women as fabricators of fake cases and how these framings work towards diluting the stringent provisions of laws safeguarding women's lives and human rights.
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