Feminist Law Archives
By Partners For Law In Development
Chronicling the Engagement of the Women's Movement with Law
‘UCC beneficial for Muslim women’ says Shayara Bano, who petitioned triple talaq case in Supreme Court, News report, The Hindu, February 2, 2024
A Response to Uniform Civil Code: The women’s movement perspective, Rohini Hensman, Kafila, October 8, 2014
A Uniform Civil Code in India: The State of the Debate in 2014, Nivedita Menon, Feminist Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, 2014, pp. 480-486
Response and Suggestions regarding Uniform Civil Code/ Gender-Just Laws: Submission to Law Commission, Bebaak Collective, July 14, 2023
Response to Law Commission on Uniform Civil Code from Queer Trans organisations and Individuals, 2023
Response to Law Commission of India on UCC: Feminist Working Group on Law Commission Submission on the UCC, Kafila, July 19, 2023
LBT Response to Law Commission on Uniform Civil Code, Published by Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, July 10, 2018
Talking Uniform Civil Code, Mrinal Pande, The Wire, February 11, 2024
Uniform Civil Code: Once again, where is gender justice?, Nivedita Menon, Kafila, July 15, 2016
Uniform Civil Code: The Women’s Movement Perspective, Nivedita Menon, Kafila, October 1, 2014
Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand UCC Draft Bill (English), Kafila, February 8, 2024
Uttarakhand Women’s Groups’ Statement on the Uttarakhand UCC Draft Bill (Hindi), Kafila, February 8, 2024
Whither Gender Justice, Nivedita Menon, Outlook, February 2, 2024
All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Submission to Law Commission, July 11, 2023
Indian Muslim for Secular Democracy submission to law commission on UCC, June 26, 2023
CJI Bobde Needs to Know That Goa Family Laws are Not All Uniform or Equal by Albertina Almeida
Code of Convenience: Politics of Uniform Civil Code by Albertina Almeida
Uniform Civil Code: Does ‘Uniformity’ make a difference? by Albertina Almeida
Law Commissions of India and Goa Law Commissions: Framinig the Absences of Regional Difference with Special Reference to Goa by Albertina Almeida
What the now pitched Uniform Civil Code portends for Goa by Albertina Almeida
What use is Goa’s ‘Uniform Civil Code’ if…? by Albertina Almeida
Questionnaire on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) by Law Commission (2016)
Uniform Civil Code- But What About Gender Justice by BMMA(2016)
Muslim Women Want Codification of Muslim Family Law And Not UCC by BMMA (2015)
Muslim Women Reject Uniform Civil Code, Call for Reform in Muslim Personal Law by BMMA (2015)
Muslim Family Law – Draft sent to the PM by BMMA (2016)
Letter to PM Demanding Codification of Muslim Family Law by BMMA (2015)
Be Open to Uniform Civil Code – Let’s Free Ourselves of the Poison of the Clerics! by Arshia Malik (2016)
Only the constitution – Muslim Women Must Count on its Guarantees, Not Readings of Religion by Razia Patel (2016)
Comments on the Uniform Civil Code by the Jagori Group (Date Unknown)
Towards a Uniform, Secular and Non-sexist Civil Code, by The Forum Against Oppression of Women (Date Unknown)
Brinda Karat, Uniformity v. Equality: The concept of Uniform Civil Code, Frontline, 17 Nov 1995
Rethinking the Uniform Civil Code, Action India Women’s Programme, Presented at the Nari Mukti Sangharsh Sammelan (Northern Region), 16-19 April 1993
Civil Codes and Personal Laws: Reversing the Option, Working Group on Women’s Rights (Nov 1995)
Madhu Mehra, Strategies Addressing Discrimination Against Women in Family Law in India, Nov 1996
Abida Samiuddin, Muslim Community: Identity Crisis and Probability of a Uniform Civil Code (Date Unknown)
Ratna Kapur, The UCC? Feminist Interventions (Date Unknown)
Need for a Uniform Civil Code, Recommendation made at the Constitution Club, 14 Oct 1986
Nivedita Menon, Uniform Civil Code: The women’s movement perspective, Kafila (2014)
Humane Approach to Uniform Civil Code for Gender Equality, Firdous Azmat Siddiqui, The Pioneer (April 2014)
Anjali Modi, It is about Equality, not Uniformity, The Hindu, 10 Aug 2003
Women, Personal Laws and the Changing Juridical Practice, Amrita Shodan, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 35 (April 2000)
Is Gender Justice Only a Legal Issue?: Political Stakes in UCC Debate, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No.9/10 (March 1997)
Reversing the Option: Civil Codes and Personal Laws, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31 (May 1996)
Drafting Gender Just Laws, Geetanjali Gangoli, Nandita Gandhi & Nandita Shah, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31, No. 43 (Oct 1996)
Politics of Diversity: Religious Communities and Multiple Patriarchies, Kumkum Sangari, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 30 (December 1995)
Ram Puniyani, ‘A Step Away from Patriarchy: A Muslim Women’s group shows the way towards gender-equal personal laws’, Tehelka, Vol. 11(28), 12 July 2014
Muslim Personal Law Board to start campaign against Uniform Civil Code, Ummid (June 2014)
Saheli, Egalitarian Civil Code: An Issue of Gender Justice, Newsletter Jan 1995
Saheli, Women’s Rights: Beyond the Majority – Minority Debate, Newsletter March 1997
Saheli, An Egalitarian Civil Code: Every Woman’s Basic Right, Newsletter March 1997
Saheli, Towards a Uniform Civil Code, Newsletter March 1986
Saheli, The Uniform Civil Code: Old and New Challenges Before the Women’s Movement (1995)
Goa’s Civil Code has backing of BJP, but it’s not truly uniform, Frederick Noronha, Scroll, (June 2014)
PIL for Uniform Civil Code: Delhi High Court roots for religious pluralism, Saurav Datta, DNA (June 2014)
The Love Jihad Bogey, Flavia Agnes, Deccan Chronicle, (Nov 2014)
Razia Patel, Woman, Religion and Family Laws (Date Unknown)
Flavia Agnes, Protection of Women’s Economic Rights through Specific Legislations and Reform from Within: Dual Strategy for Law Reform circa 1990s