Empowering women & girls is the key to social transformation. Empowerment includes the action of raising the status of women through education, raising awareness, literacy, and training. Women’s empowerment is all about equipping and allowing women to make life-determining decisions through the different problems in society.
The Constitution of India, provides for the equality of women in its various articles. All citizens are equal under the law and are entitled to equal protection of law. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex alone. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, or caste for government employment. The above provisions provide adequate constitutional guarantees for the protection of women’s rights in India.
India has signed/adopted a number of international commitments related to gender equality, women rights and empowerment such as Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women and Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Gender equality and women empowerment is at the core of the human rights. India has made policies/laws such as National Policy for Development and Empowerment of Women, Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, Criminal Procedure Code Amendments (in the name of honour and offences relating to Rape), National Plan of Action on Human Rights, and other Gender equality policy frameworks and women empowerment initiatives.
Similarly, on demand side, TLROI has engaged more than 2500 poor women in communities for legal rights awareness. TLROI has trained over 100 women as community paralegal for creating strong demand for their rights among poor and venerable communities. TLROI Fellow Advocates nationwide has provided legal aid, legal assistance, psychosocial support, counseling services to more than 300 poor, marginalized women and victims.
