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Join us at 1pm BST today!
📣 Join us to discussion Durba Mitra’s ‘The Future That Was’ which traces the forging of new feminist internationalisms against neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism in the 1970s.
🗓️ 12 June, Fri
⏰ 1 PM BST / 5:30 PM IST
🔗 Register: tr.ee/JPABK_CNae
📣 Join us to discussion Durba Mitra’s ‘The Future That Was’ which traces the forging of new feminist internationalisms against neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism in the 1970s.
🗓️ 12 June, Fri
⏰ 1 PM BST / 5:30 PM IST
🔗 Register: tr.ee/JPABK_CNae
We were delighted to present two of our latest reports a public-facing event organised by the Fiscal Policy Institute, Government of Karnataka. We shared our work on cash transfers, free transport schemes, and gender-responsive welfare among government officials and academics.
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'Routes to Recognition: The Impact of Karnataka’s Shakti Scheme on Women’s Paid Work' examines how the Shakti free bus travel scheme is changing women’s access to paid work, mobility, and autonomy across four districts.
Read the full report here: tinyurl.com/bdh2pxa5
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We’re discussing ‘A Right to Care, A Right to Welfare, a study of Tamil Nadu’s Kalaignar Mahalir Urimai Thittam’, India’s first UCT scheme recognising women’s unpaid domestic & care work.
🗓️ 5 Dec, Fri
⏰ 12 PM GMT / 5:30 PM IST
📍 Online
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5n6h94wy
The full report is available for viewing on our: lawsofsocialreproduction.net…
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In our next seminar, we dive into our latest latest publication 'Routes to Recognition: The Impact of Free Transport on Women’s Paid Work' which explores Karnataka’s Shakti scheme.
📅 7 Nov, Fri
🕒 12 PM GMT / 5:30 PM IST
📍 Online
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/4mvsyxrj
India’s welfare regime is witnessing an unprecedented shift. Over 11.3 crore women across 11 states now receive unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) with 5 more states announcing similar schemes.
Our latest policy brief dives into these UCTs ⬇️
Read here: lawsofsocialreproduction.net…
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Join us for a discussion on 'Valuing Care, Recognising Rights, Reimagining Welfare: How to Make Unconditional Cash Transfers Gender Transformative with Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran @pkotiswaran
📅 17 Oct, Fri
🕒 12 PM BST, 4:30 PM IST
📍Online
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/23jmybew
6 cities, 2000+ people, and countless conversations later, Working Girls by @parodevi continues to redefine what we mean by “work” and challenges assumptions about labour, gender and power. Here’s a glimpse of what viewers felt 📝
More reflections here: instagram.com/p/DPOfk6xjOmw/…
The film was featured by @esheworld
"In…Working Girls'… Paromita Vohra explores women’s reproductive labour – spanning domestic work to surrogacy – revealing how law shapes visibility, value and control over female bodies and employment"
eshe.in/2025/07/29/paromita-…
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Last month, we launched our report Valuing Care, Recognising Rights: A Study of the Kalaignar Mahalir Urimai Thittam' exploring the impact of unconditional cash transfers for socio-economically vulnerable women in Tamil Nadu.
Read it on out website lawsofsocialreproduction.net
Our work was featured by @frontline_india in an article titled 'Tamil Nadu’s Rs.1,000-a-month cash transfer lifts women’s autonomy, leaves gaps untouched’
@pkotiswaran quoted “We found that women are experiencing higher levels of financial well-being”
frontline.thehindu.com/news/…
📣 Join us for the launch of Immoral Traffic by Vibhuti Ramachandran, an ethnography on India’s anti-prostitution law, NGOs & global anti-trafficking campaigns.
📅 12 Sept 2025
🕒 12 PM BST | 4:30 PM IST
📍 Online (Teams)
🔗 Register: eventbrite.com/e/book-launch…
Reflections of The Laws of Social Reproduction Conference: Labouring Bodies, Unjust Laws ✨
Years of research came together in an unforgettable two days with scholars, academics & stakeholders. Thank you to everyone who joined us, listen, and shape the space with us.
📣 Join us for the launch of Immoral Traffic by Vibhuti Ramachandran, an ethnography on India’s anti-prostitution law, NGOs & global anti-trafficking campaigns.
📅 12 Sept 2025
🕒 12 PM BST | 4:30 PM IST
📍 Online (Teams)
🔗 Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
“Nothing about us without us” Justice Prabha Sridevan releases @LawsOfSocialRep report Dancing for Respectability with Kausalya, Karagattam dancer at Chennai screening of #Working Girls at Alliance Francaise
Join us in Chennai this evening at 6pm at Alliance Francaise, Justice Prabha Sridevan will join us to release a @LawsOfSocialRep report on erotic dancing, all welcome @KCL_Law
#Chennai screening of Working Girls! Tuesday August 5th, 6 pm. Registere here - eventbrite.com/e/working-gir…
The @LawsOfSocialRep report on erotic dance will be released before the screening. Hope to see you here!
📣 Join us for the launch of ‘Valuing Care, Recognising Rights: A study of the Kalaignar Mahalir Urimai Thittam’ which assessed the impact of unconditional cash transfer schemes among vulnerable women in Tamil Nadu
11 Aug, 1:30 PM, at Anna Centenary Library, Chennai @ACLChennai
Do join us in Bangalore! Featuring research done by @LawsOfSocialRep especially warm invite to law students @NLSIUofficial @altlawforum @enfoldindia & journalist friends @DeccanHerald @DeccanChronicle @TheSouthfirst @KannadaPrabha
#Bangalore peepuls, we have added a second screening of #WorkingGirls thanks to your popular demand: Sunday Aug 3, 3 pm. The film is 2 hours 14 min long and there will be a discussion after if you wish. Come! Bring fren, family and louers. Register here - eventbrite.com/e/working-gir…
That’s a wrap on our #lanouringbodies #unjustlaws conference! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who joined us, presented, reflected, and helped bring it all together. We’re so grateful to each of you 💛
Until next time! Check out our website for more: lawsofsocialreproduction.com…
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The final session of our #labouringbofies #unjustlawds, “Renewed Vocabularies, Reimagined Strategies,” brought together cross-sectoral insights from @LawsOfSocialRep, mapping future directions for research, policy, and advocacy on reproductive labour and economic justice
It’s was moderated by Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran @pkotiswaran , the panel featured presentations by Dr. Sutapa Majumdar Amala Dasarathi, and Dr. Madhusree Jana, with reflections from Prof. J Devika and Dr. Neha Wadhawan on building transformative, justice-oriented frameworks.
In our session on “Visibilising Labour, Demystifying the Law.”
Panellists shared creative ways of translating complex research on social reproduction, from animations on medical law to digital museums and toolkits for school students.
In a panel moderated by Prof. G. Arunima and with Dr. Biswajit Saha as a discussant, Dr. Siddharth Peter de Souza spoke about @justiceaddas primers on Surrogacy and Asssisted Reproductive Technology Laws in India.
See our collaborative work here: lawsofsocialreproduction.com…
For our next session, @pkotiswaran presented the @lawsofsocialrep analysis of Unconditional Cash Transfer Schemes in India. Feminist Economists @sonamitra @aiyaryamini, @soumya_kmehta commented and the session was chaired by @wneha5
