women’s rights

Child Marriage Banned in Guatemala Guatemala has raised the minimum age for marriage to 18. However, women’s rights campaigners claim that implementing the law would prove […]

Nepalese Parliament Elects First Female President Bidhya Devi Bhandari is now deputy leader of the ruling Communist party in Nepal who has long campaigned to secure […]

Protection of Women’s Rights in Pakistan – A Practitioner’s Perspective I was invited to speak briefly at a seminar organized by the Law and Politics Society, […]

The Much-Needed Anti-Rape Bills In contradistinction to the legislature’s characteristic stalling on critical legal reforms, the Senate, last week, adopted the Anti-rape Bill proposed (over a year back) […]

Stand Against Harassment Harassment is a word we hear often and typically disregard it as if it is insignificant, despite of the fact that this word […]

Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Threat To Democracy? “To the extent that we are privatising public civil dispute resolution systems, we are essentially privatising a significant part […]

Team CTL recently attended a discussion on How To Combat Online Misogyny in Pakistan, organized by The Last Word bookshop in collaboration with Susan Benesch of The […]

Uganda Supreme Court Bans Dowry Refund on Divorce Uganda’s Supreme Court ruled that the practice of refunding the price of the bride upon the dissolution of a […]