The Feminist Law Archives (FLA) aims to chronicle the engagement of the women’s movements with the law. This sphere of engagement is too vast for any single effort to embrace, making this effort one of many – and necessarily, a partial one. We have selected some thematic areas (to begin with) that have defined the engagement of the women’s movements’ with the law, prioritizing material, reports, memorandums etc. that are unpublished or difficult to access. Through this collation, the archive seeks to map the trajectory of our politics, interventions and debates,  in relation to the law.

 

This project evolved in the aftermath of the upsurge against sexual violence in 2012-13, particularly as a need to recall the rich history of activism and debates that preceded it. In its first stage in 2013, FLA began with a few themes focusing mostly on sexual violence, hosting among other things, submissions to the Justice Verma Committee as an easy reference for debates.

 

The FLA is an online open access database for materials from the women’s movement. It is intended as a collective enterprise, pooling together materials that trace perspectives, contestations and engagement of the women’s movements with the law on various themes. It is essentially collaborative in nature, and will continue to develop through contributions.

We invite you to share similar materials so as to make our collective struggles with the law widely available. To share documents on the Feminist Law Archives, write to us at: resources@pldindia.org.