The book presents a comparative study of the human rights abuses and legal problems faced by members of the third sex in India, complications regarding marriage adoption and sexual status, with relevant and important documents, petitions field challenging the criminalization of homosexuality, and extracts from international human rights treatise for human rights activists, social scientist, lawyers, concerned citizens, About The Author:- Rajesh Talwar, is a lawyer by profession, a prolific writer, and has also taught law at Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia for a period of six years. In 1996 he went to the U.K. on a British Chevening scholarship, from where he did his LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of of Nottingham. He has written extensively on legal and non-legal subjects for various newspapers and magazines, and has authored several books, both non-fiction as well as fiction. Making Your Own Will (Vision Books, 1992) was followed by The Judiciary on Trial (Cosmos, 1995), How to Choose Your Lawyer (Vision Books, 1998), The Divorce Handbook (Vision Books, 1999), The Third Sex and Human Rights (Gyan Publishing House, 1999), Inside Gayland (Kalpaz Publications, 2001) and The Laws of E-Business in India (Vision Books, 2001). Forthcoming books include a collection of children's stories., Contents:- Acknowledgements · Preface · Introduction · Judgments of Various Courts · Legal/Other Problems Faced by Transsexuals · Legal/Other Problems Faced by Hijras · Hijars and International Human Rights Law · Conclusion · Appendix A?Signification Indian Documents · write petition field in the Delhi High Court on behalf of the Aids Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (A.B.V.A) challenging the constitutional validity of Section 377, Indian Penal Code and segregation and /or compulsory testing of prisoners · Counter-Affidavit by the National Aids Control Organization, Respondent No. 6 · Extract from report by CALERI (Campaign for Lesbian Rights) in 1999 · Extracts from Act
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