West Bengal
District Lawyers Program
Main Concerns
HRLN Impact
What our clients and partners say about our work
Webinar on District Meeting on Disability Rights
Census 2011 pegs the number of persons with disabilities in India at 26.9 million, which is 2.12% of the populatio ...read more
Webinar on Discussion on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, West Bengal
With the onset of demanding and claiming of basic human rights one of the major taboos that India faces is the discrimin ...read more
Webinar on WB District Lawyers Training: Labour Rights - during COVID Lockdown
Human Rights Law Network conducted a zoom Webinar on WB District Lawyers Training: Labour Rights - during COVID Lockdo ...read more
Webinar on Right to Food
Prior to the announcement of the National Lockdown on 25 March 2020, a number of courts had shut down in response to the ...read more
Legal Training for Transgender Persons - Transgender Persons Act, 2019
In the wake of a number of laws that affect Transgender lives and bodies drastically, which include the Transgender Pers ...read more
University forced to change admission form for Transgender Lady
Alia Sk vs State of West Bengal and Ors; W.P. No 21646 (W) of 2019
Disposed Off
Police Protection provided to a Queer Woman
Areka Sarkar and Anr Vs State of West Bengal and Ors; WP 9638(W) of 2019
Pending
West Bengal District Lawyers
Contact our District Lawyers for cases in the following districts. In case you are not able to reach our district lawyer ...read more
Acid Attack Survivors in conversation on the journey after the attack. (Spoken in Bengali)
Sanchayata Yadav, Jhuma Santra, Sujata Swarnakar, Acid Attack Survivors in conversation on the journey after the attack. ...read more
HRLN's Kolkata unit forms a strong alliance with the transgender community in West Bengal
HRLN started working on issues faced by the transgender community since 2016, where a matter on behalf of a transgender ...read more
Central Administrative Tribunal (Kolkata) allows transgender UPSC candidate to apply offline since online form lacked ‘other’ gender option
Atri Kar v. State of West Bengal and Ors., O.A. No. 1201 of 2016, State Administrative Tribunal
Disposed off
Covid Hospitals cannot arbitrary deny use of mobile phones
WP 5416 of 2020: Jaimin Rajani Versus The State of West Bengal
Disposed
Promise and Performance of the Forest Rights Act, 2006: The Tenth Anniversary Report
The passage of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) promised the reversal of a major ‘historical injustice’ which dates back ...read more