Feminist Law Archives
By Partners For Law In Development
Chronicling the Engagement of the Women's Movement with Law
Feminist Law Archives is an ongoing project by Partners for Law in Development which chronicles engagement of women’s movement with the law in India. The Archives provide access to unpublished or difficult to access documents and advocacy materials from the women’s movement, including memorandums, reports, petitions, resolutions etc., that reflect feminist perspectives, contestation and engagement with the law on various themes. 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.
The PLD website is a hugely valuable resource for women. Women's rights, and the rights of women to be treated equally, always have to be fought for. But those struggles and contests involve access to information and networks. This website and the Feminist Law Archives provide both of these essential tools for making the world a better and fairer place for all women
The Feminist Law Archives are an indispensable resource for researchers and activists alike. I look forward to seeing it grow!
The feminist law archives provide a rich resource of materials for those interested in the issue as well as become an advocacy resource kit to generate awareness and understanding. It is a much needed platform and will contribute towards gender justice
This new initiative is an invaluable service to researchers working on the Indian women’s movement and its many struggles for law reform and social justice. I highly commend this thorough endeavour to document the lived experiences of Indian feminism
This is a marvelous effort and would help researchers, eachers, students, journalists and others who are interested in these struggles for freedom and justice. However, more importantly, it establishes the importance of ollective action ased on critical interrogation, and the power of democratic politics to usher in a more egalitarian world based on dignity and freedom of the individual
The Feminist Law Archives initiated, developed and maintained by PLD act has been an extremely important resource for accessing judgments, reports and initiatives related to women's movements and their engagement with law. I have not only been able to use the archive for my own research, writing and teachings, but have also encouraged my students to do so, particularly for the course I teach on Feminist Jurisprudence and Gender Justice. Deep appreciation and gratitude for this
Discovering the Feminist Law Archives was an incredible moment. We used it in our research to trace the evolution of the sexual harassment law, from the various draft versions to the final legislation. It was particularly useful to find drafts from the women’s movement and their critiques of the government drafts. Our interns learnt a lot from consulting it too. It is one of the first resources I recommend to other researchers to consult.