One Future Collective is an organization that works towards building compassionate youth social leadership through the use of art, education, community intervention and policy advocacy – across verticals of gender justice, mental health, legal reform and development policy.

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FemJustice | What does Feminism have to do with the Law?

The FemJustice series is a column that explores how the process of seeking justice can be a transformative tool to combat gender based crimes, while also recognising the survivor client’s agency, lived reality and desire for justice. The column explores the ways in which practitioners working or hoping to work in the field can adopt a gender sensitive lens in their work. This article is an overview of feminist legal method and how it affects legal practise.

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October 17, 2019
One Future Collective
Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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Pride and Privilege | An Exposition On Adoption Laws That Affect Queer Parenting

Pride and Privilege is a column on intersectionality and queerness. The column focuses on addressing queer issues and themes with an intersectional lens, as this is what activism and outreach should aim for with all of its work. It also looks at issues that are often invisible and unspoken in our community, such as biphobia, dalit feminisms, and ableism, in order to address the issue of privilege that comes with our pride.

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October 5, 2019
Harshil Shah
Gender Justice, Intersectionality, Legal Reform
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FemJustice | How Trauma Impacts Survivors and What that means for Lawyers

The FemJustice series is a column that explores how the process of seeking justice can be a transformative tool to combat gender based crimes, while also recognising the survivor client’s agency, lived reality and desire for justice. The column explores the ways in which practitioners working or hoping to work in the field can adopt a gender sensitive lens in their work.

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September 28, 2019
Pragya Lodha
Legal Reform
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Rainbow Charter | International Human Rights Law: A Tool in the Securing of Rights for the LGBT Community

Rainbow Charter is a column on international law and queer rights, with a keen focus on macro international law as well as deeper micro LGBTQ laws. This column also maps the current LGBTQ laws based on geographic regions and also aims to summarise progressive LGBTQ judgements from around the world and how it shapes the international context.

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September 23, 2019
Uttanshi Agarwal
Contemporary Issues, Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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FemJustice | Gender-Stereotyping and its Contributions to the Vicious Cycle of Sexual Violence: Myths, Facts, and Law

The FemJustice series is a column that explores how the process of seeking justice can be a transformative tool to combat gender based crimes, while also recognising the survivor client’s agency, lived reality and desire for justice. The column explores the ways in which practitioners working or hoping to work in the field can adopt a gender sensitive lens in their work.

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August 29, 2019
One Future Collective
Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019: An Overview

The Lok Sabha on Monday, August 5, passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, via a voice vote. The bill provides a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment of transgender persons. The bill, introduced on July 19, was met with protests demanding a revoke. The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Mr. Thawar Chand Gehlot, was the one who moved the bill - which was passed within a couple of...

August 23, 2019
Aditi Paul
Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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Rainbow Charter | How the International Community is Moving beyond Decriminalising Homosexuality

Rainbow Charter is a column on international law and queer rights, with a keen focus on macro international law as well as deeper micro LGBTQ laws. This column also maps the current LGBTQ laws based on geographic regions and also aims to summarise progressive LGBTQ judgements from around the world and how it shapes the international context.

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August 17, 2019
Uttanshi Agarwal
Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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Understanding Legal Frameworks of Sex Work in India

Sex work in India has had a plethora of legalisation framework issues till date. While the de facto criminalization  is precarious for  both policy and legislation, decriminalization  of sex work is necessary for the physical and emotional inviolability of sex  workers, their rights to life, labour, health, and their reproductive and  sexual rights. According to the National  AIDS Control  Organization,  there  exist 8,00,000  documented sex workers in  India-unofficial figures run  to further staggering...

July 1, 2019
Priyanshi Vakharia
Contemporary Issues, Gender Justice, Legal Reform
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Decriminalising Sex Work in India: Steps and Solutions

Sex work in India is problematic to say the least. In signing the International Convention,  the Trafficking Protocol, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as  well as the Convention for Elimination of All Kinds of Discrimination Against Women, India  has evidenced the legislative motive of the Immoral  Traffic (Prevention)  Act, 1956,  which  does not  expunge sex workers  for their contribution  to the sex trade. Yet it fails to preserve their rights or protect their persons as sex workers continue to remain replaceable pawns in a vicious network of organized crime.

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June 23, 2019
Priyanshi Vakharia
Gender Justice, Legal Reform, Social Change
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