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From the past few decades the approach of sexual violence in human rights has focused basically on the abuse of women and girls. But in the meantime sexual offences against men and transgender has increased a lot in prisons and also in other places. The criminal laws in India relating to rape has always been gender specific in which men have always been the perpetrator and women is always the victim of sexual offences. The Justice Verma Committee (2013) which was formed after the famous Nirbhaya gang rape case, recommended gender neutral laws with respect to sexual offences and also the victims. However, ignoring this Government passed criminal law amendment act, 2013 without these much needed reforms. For the last few decades, the common approach to sexual violence has focused mainly on women as a victim. Given that men are usually conceptualized as the sexual aggressor or the perpetrator, however, there has been a growth in research examining male victims’ experiences of the crimi...

The recently passed legislation by the Central government in reference to the ascertainment of citizenship of various people on the ground of religion and regional belongings has given an impetus to the wide spread protest all over the country. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 has made some changes in the process of granting citizenship to some minority communities from the neighboring countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and has provided some immunity from the penal obligations to those communities from these countries. What is CAA? The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 which has   been assented by the President of India, on 12 th December. 2019, has made certain changes into the existing Citizenship Act, 1955 to provide for the acquisition and determination of Indian citizenship. The trans- border migration of population is happening continuously between India and its neighboring countries comprising Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh since the ind...