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Ms. Flavia AgnesMs. Flavia Agnes is a legal scholar and women’s rights lawyer with over three decades of experience. A pioneer of the women’s movement, she has worked consistently on issues of gender and law reform. A prolific writer, she has provided incisive analysis of many social trends and legal reforms including domestic violence, minority law reforms, secularism and human rights. Significant among her many publications are ‘Law & Gender Inequality – The Politics of Personal Laws in India’ (1999), ‘Women and Law’ (co-edit) (2004), Family Law(two volumes) – a prescribed text book for law students (2011), Negotiating Spaces (2012 (co-edit). (Publishers OUP, India).
Her inspirational autobiographical essay `My Story Our Story ... Of Rebuilding Broken Lives’ is an important marker of the women’s movement. Her organisation Majlis, provides legal advocacy and litigation support to women and children from marginalised communities and conducts trainings to all stake holders including the police and the judiciary and is engaged in policy level interventions and public interest litigation in order to help women access justice. |