'A. Narrain' in OBA Collectie

With the landmark Delhi High Court victory in July 2009, sexuality and the law entered mainstream, legal and public discourse in India inviting both celebration and resistance. How do we understand this conversation? The July judgement stands on the sho...

This article makes the case for why the mandate of the Independent Expert on SOGI must be renewed based on an analysis of the work of the Independent Expert in three areas, namely country visits, sending letters of allegation to individual countries and...

The judgment of the Delhi High Court in Naz Foundation vs. Union of India, delivered on 2nd July, 2009, triggered a euphoric response from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community as well as from the wider activist community. The judg...

I. Conceptual Approaches to Sexuality as a form of politics, II. Sories of Struggle, III. Personal Narratives

The release of the third report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) and the first report by the current mandate holder, Víctor Madrigal-Borlioz, provides us another opportunity to assess the workings of the mandat...

A Brief Note in the form of Q & A drafted in 2011 by the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore for the website orinam.net on Same Sex Marriage and the Law in India.

De hijras in India worden door de rest van de samenleving geweldadig bejegend, vooral door de politie. Hijras hebben geen enkel recht en proberen hier tegenin te gaan.