Reflections on Access to Justice for Transgender People in India

By Shivani Dewalla  Our arrival unto the world is marked by “their” presence. Marriages would be incomplete without “their” performances, “their” blessings. The halt at the traffic light is one of the most likely places to spot “them”. But why is it that their presence is only restricted to such occasions? Why are they not…

Reflecting on my experience as a Grassroots Project Volunteer

By Ila Tyagi In this blog post Ila Tyagi, an LLM student at UCL, reflects on her experience volunteering for the Grassroots Human Rights Project and how the education system in the UK compares to the education system in her home country, India. When I first entered the state school in Eastlea, I couldn’t believe…

Volunteering for the Grassroots Human Rights Project

By Clement Cheung A first year Law student undertaking the UCL Dual Degree Programme with Hong Kong University. The mandatory Access to Justice placement, organised and overseen by the CAJ, forms an important part of the first year of the programme. Perhaps this blog post can begin with how disappointed I was initially, when assigned to the…