Vishakha & others vs State of Rajasthan - Created laws that protects women from sexual harassment at their workplace
In 1992, Bhanwari Devi, a social worker, was gang raped in a village in Rajasthan, only because she tried discouraging a family's efforts to wed their one year daughter. She filed a case and received a lot of support from NGOs. Although their efforts didn't help her cause directly, what they did helped women all over the country.
It led to the Supreme Court announcing a prime verdict that helped protect women from sexual harassment at their workplace which by extension also helped establish gender equality. Before 1997, there were no guidelines to deal with such cases at a workplace.
As of April 2013, The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 has been established, and the Vishakha Guidelines were certainly very crucial in making the new law effective.
Source: thealternative
No comments:
Post a Comment