Women's Rights Initiative

What We Do

The Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative ("LCWRI")'s mission is the empowerment of women through law. This is based on the belief that law is an instrument of social change and can be used in different ways to further the constitutional and human rights of women. Since its inception in 1998, the LCWRI has been actively engaged with the entire legal regime of addressing the rights of women in law.
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Who We are

Ms. Indira Jaising - Project Director
Starting practice as a lawyer in the early sixties, Indira Jaising became the first woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by High Court of Bombay in 1986. Right from the beginning of her legal career, she has focused on protection of human rights, rights of women and those of the poor working class. Read More


TEAM

Project Coordinator

Udiksha Batra 

Programme Associate & Editor

Kritika Shrivastava 

Senior Finance & Administration Officer

Usha Verma 

THE DELHI OFFICE

Research & Advocacy Unit

Senior Research & Advocacy Officers
Tenzing Choesang
Brototi Dutta

Research & Advocacy Officers
Jhuma Sen
Saptarshi Mandal
                   Pooja Badarinath                      Paroma Ray

Legal Aid Cell

Senior Legal Aid Officer
Mr. Mehak G. Sethi

Legal Aid Officers
Supriya Yadav
Samridhi Sinha 
Meenal Sharma

        Survivors' Group Coordinator        Surbhi Singh

Court Clerks
 C.P. Nautiyal
                     Ajay Singh                        Karan Singh

                    Administration Officer                 Shishupal Prajapati 

                    Accounts Officer                   Gurmid Rawat 

Support Staff
Mr.Manohar Lal
Mr. Ajay Sahu
Ms.Ganga

63/2 Third Floor, Masjid Road
Bhogal, Jungpura
New Delhi - 110014

Tel: (011) 468 66666 
Fax: (011) 2437 3993

Email: wri.delhi@lawyerscollective.org

THE MUMBAI OFFICE

Senior Programme Officer
Ujwala Kadrekar

Legal Aid Officer
Aileen Marques

 Senior Research & Advocacy Officer
Pouruchisti Wadia

Administrative Assistant 
Dilip Chibde 

Jalaram Kripa, Fourth Floor
61, Janmabhumi Marg
Fort, Mumbai - 400001

Tel:  (022) 434 11603/604
Fax: (022) 2287 3570

Email: wri.bombay@lawyerscollective.org

 

THE BANGALORE OFFICE

Legal Aid Officer
Dolly Kalita

Independent Consultant
Jayna Kothari 

Ist floor, No. 4A, MAH Road, Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar , Banglore

 Tel:  (080) 41239130

 

THE JAMMU & KASHMIR OFFICE

Legal Aid Officer
Farheen Syeed Kapra

 Kapra House, Near Police Station, Raj Bagh, Srinagar - 190008, Kashmir (J&K)
Email: syeed.farheen@gmail.com