Events

This online discussion was organized by NAJAR and ALIFA on 21st April 2024 to mark a decade of the NALSA Judgement for transgender person’s rights and subsequent legal developments. Webinar Recording:

On Ambedkar Jayanti 2024, NAJAR organized a session on access to justice and understanding the constitution. The session was titled Unveiling Indian Constitutional Values: Navigating Access to Justice for Marginalized Communities Session recording:

In conversation with Lara Jesani, Nabiya Khan, Pragya, Kavita Srivastava, Hasina Khan and Nodeep Kaur

Speaking from the lens of people who face marginalization at multiple levels, Kiran, who identifies as a trans man from an Adivasi community in Karnataka, and a person living with a disability, explain how being a trans* person functions as a social disability. When living with a physical or other disability, it is an additional […]

Grace Banu talks about legal discrimination and social bareers. While there may be changes in society, and some people are able to accept the existence of trans* persons and queer people, there is no readiness to provide rights. Most of the times, silence is the response from the cis community people. In 2014, as per […]

In a conversation on reservations as a means of resistance in fascist and neo-liberal times, Dr. Ashwini Jadhav explains the need for reservations for the NT-DNT, Vimukta communities. She provides an overview of the history of oppression of the community starting with British colonialism and until the present times. Across different states, the community is […]

Members of a union in Thane, Maharashtra, talk about the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods of waste collectors and waste-pickers. With nothing to collect, and no place open to buy from them, the money they had was not enough for basic necessities, or food for their survival. The pandemic only increased existing discrimination. […]

Ever since the setting up of the Mahanadi Coal Fields, adivasi people in the villages around the mines have been protesting the impact that the coal dust pollution has on the environment and on the health of the people. The severity of the impact has only increased over time in spite of a High Court […]

The concept of ‘merit’ that is gaining more and more prominence in educational policy and in educational institutions presumes an equal starting point. It is as if students from communities which have been deprived of access to education and equitable opportunities for centuries, and those who have access to resources and cultural capital can suddenly […]