Concept Note
Commemorating 75 Years of UDHR
To honor and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), we are thrilled to announce that as part of the UNFPA project at NALSAR, submissions are invited for a Blog competition revolving around the theme of “Making the Invisible Visible in Law Practice and Legal Education.”
The blog competition encourages participants to go beyond the conventional understanding of human rights and allied subjects, shedding light on and critically evaluating the pressing human rights issues hitherto silenced by the mainstream human rights jurisprudence or conveniently evaded to serve various political ends. Therefore, celebrating the spirit and achievements of the UDHR is incomplete without acknowledging and addressing the voice of the voiceless and making their presence visible in legal discourse and practice toward renewing our collective resolve and re-energizing efforts for meaningful change and furthering justice. We thus encourage human interest stories that uplift the spirits of the dehumanized and articulate their reflections through lived experiences.
Themes
- Sexual and Reproductive rights as Human Rights
- Access to safe abortion – recent socio-legal developments
- Sex Education in school curriculums
- Period poverty
- Legal recognition for same-sex relationships
- Sexual violence in conflict zones
- Gender Discrimination and Human Rights
- The wage gap in the informal sectors
- Right for transgender people to self-identify – theory and practice
- Public patriarchy – legislations that embed gender discrimination
- Unpaid care work
- Intersectional barriers in accessing legal remedies against gender discrimination
- Human Rights in the Digital Space
- Human-rights-based approaches to tackling Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TGBV)
- When Bodies become Data-How Biometrics curtail Human Rights