The Feminist Approach To UCC: A Long Way To Go
Feminists movements first welcomed the idea of a Uniform Civil Code. But as right-wingers hijacked the proposal, they retracted and called for reforms in personal laws instead
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Feminists movements first welcomed the idea of a Uniform Civil Code. But as right-wingers hijacked the proposal, they retracted and called for reforms in personal laws instead
Jan 18, 2021 Even after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Indian Penal Code Section 377 judgment in Navtej Singh Johar vs Union Of India (in 2018), the LGBTQIA+ community in India has continued to fight for equal rights. The community continues to fight for same-sex marriage recognition in India. The two lawyers who were at the forefront of the Navtej judgment, Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, revealed one year after the Navtej judgment that they were a same-sex couple, and soon after, launched the “Marriage Project”: an initiative to legalize same-sex marriage in Indi...