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Amit Anand
Amit Anand
is presently working as an Assistant Professor at School of Legal Studies, REVA University, Bengaluru. He has completed his PhD (Law) from Lancaster University, U.K. in 2022 on the topic ‘Unheard and Unnoticed: Violence Against Women in India (A Study of Practice of Witch-hunting, Honour Killing and Devadasi System)’. He holds LL.M (Human Rights) from the University of Reading, U.K. (2015) and B.A.LL.B. (Honours.) from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (2014). He has presented two oral statements to separate United Nations Treaty Bodies in 2023. The first statement was presented before the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the topic “Impacts and challenges faced by persons with disabilities in situations of risk & the role of state and non-state actors in addressing them” and the second statement was presented to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on “Equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems”. His joint submission on ‘Measures to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children in Residential Care Homes in India’ to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), September 2021 has also been cited by the UNCRC in its Children’s Rights and Alternative Care - Background Document. Dr. Amit has also submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament on ‘Women’s reproductive health in the UK’, October 2023. His submission has been accepted by the Select Committee and has been published on the Committee’s website. He also has several paper publications in both national and international peer reviewed journals. His research interests lie in the area of International Human Rights Law (particularly on the issue of gender based violence, caste discrimination).
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