INTERVIEW: Advocate Flavia Agnes | Legal Redressal for Abused Indian Housewives #4

This solo discussion was part of the Homemaker story project, initiated by Tell Me Your Story. I was Project Lead and moderator.

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Ms. Flavia Agnes is a legal scholar and women’s rights lawyer with over three decades of experience. A pioneer of the women’s movement, she has worked consistently on issues of gender and law reform. A prolific writer, she has provided incisive analysis of many social trends and legal reforms including domestic and sexual violence, minority law reforms, secularism and human rights. Her inspirational autobiographical book My Story Our Story... Of Rebuilding Broken Lives is an important marker of the women’s movement. Her organisation Majlis, provides legal advocacy and litigation support to women and children from marginalised communities and conducts trainings to all stake holders including the police and the judiciary.

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Solo discussion date: 27 August 2021