Should laws against child marriage, domestic violence or harassment be cancelled simply because enforcement is difficult?

The air is filled with the delicious smell of traditional Pakistani food. With bright decorative lights, the ambiance is one of laughter and happiness. Cousins, aunts, and friends gather around the ...

Mere creation of law is not enough, till the society is not mature enough to absorb it. This is why, inspite of having law, dowry system is still creating havoc in India. Question is this, how to ...

The "Textbook of Sociology for Nurses'', penned by senior author TK Indrani has stirred a controversy which in a way is unforgivable. The book that has been circulated in a nursing school, lists the ...

Supreme Court declares dowry a "cross-cultural evil," urging educational reforms and equality in marriage to protect women's ...

Despite the Dowry Prohibition Act-2018 being in force, the demands for dowries are still prevalent in many communities, leaving newlywed women and their families reeling under undue financial pressure ...

The thesis of this paper is, in a sense, paradoxical; namely that the dowry system exists in a cyclical relationship with modernization in Cyprus, where the dowry system is a positive contributor to ...

A court in southern India on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years in prison in a ruling that found he abused his wife over their wedding dowry, leading to her death by suicide. The district court in ...