RIGHTFULLY OURS
Official Blog and Publication for GNLU Centre for Women and Child Rights
Protect Her, Empower Them,
Change Everything.
Harnessing the power of law to champion the cause of Women’s and Children’s Rights.
About The Centre
Transformative Social Change Through Law
The GNLU Centre for Women and Child Rights is a gathering of legal minds with the aim of harnessing the power of law to champion the causes of Women’s and Children’s Rights by encouraging and facilitating active discourse and deliberation in the field of women’s and children’s rights development. With this vision, Gujarat National Law University established the Centre for Women and Child Rights (“GCWCR“) on the 15th of September, 2020. The Centre integrates research, direct field action, and teaching on child rights law, using law and socio-legal strategies as tools for transformative social change to enable children to live with dignity. The specific aim of the Centre is to ensure social justice, human rights, and quality of life for all children and women in India, with a special focus on equitable quality education, care, protection, and justice for marginalised and excluded women and children.
What We Do
The centre is divided into two wings: Research & Capacity Building.
Legal Analysis
Undertaking rigorous reviews of existing legislation to deliver fact-based actionable solutions for public policy challenges.
Discourse Sessions
Facilitating active discourse and deliberation through reading circles, conferences, and conclaves.
Field Action
Field-driven activities with key stakeholders (women and children) to improve their status and condition in society.
Publications
Producing publications, reports, and policy briefs based on empirical analysis.
Capacity Building
Workshops, certificate courses, and training for professionals working with women and children.
Competitions
Organizing academic competitions, artistic contests, and quizzes to foster student engagement.
The Context & Rationale
Rising Challenges
The National Health Family Survey suggests that 30% of women in the 15-49 age group have experienced physical violence, and 6% of the same have experienced sexual violence and abuse, and the latest NCRB data shows a 16% increase in crimes against women. The NCRB reports that the country saw a 500% increase in crimes against children in the past decade.
The Need for Policy
The high prevalence of malnutrition, the high neonatal mortality rate, poor coverage of full immunization, the declining sex ratio, and child marriage pose a challenge to improving human development outcomes for every child in Gujarat and it is pertinent that more time, research, and resources are allocated to make sure children have a safe, healthy and flourishing childhood. All these highlight the need for research and policy analysis in such areas to make sure that ironclad policies are implemented to progress gender equality in Gujarat and the in-country and to also assure that these policies are being rightly implemented.
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Keeping this in mind, Gujarat National Law University has established the Centre for Women and Child Rights. The center is divided into two wings; one dedicated to research while the other for capacity building. The research division will be engaged in empirical and legal analysis to produce publications, reports, and policy briefs, and the capacity building division will organise field-driven activities with the key stakeholders (women and children) to improve their status and condition in society.
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