Project Chetna

Project Chetna: Legal awareness on women rights

We have held legal awareness camps in different organisations to educate the women about the basic laws made in their favour. Women were mostly keen to know their rights and laws on domestic violence, inheritance laws and sexual harassment at workplace act. New definitions of domestic violence, abuses, concept of shared household, what amounts to sexual harassment at workplace, were some of the
concepts explained to them. Some of the laws regarding which knowledge has been imparted include:

• Domestic Violence Act
• Dowry Prohibition Act
• Proprietary Rights of women
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act