Outrage, Again: Why Is Gender-Based Violence Not Ending?

Details of the #WebPolicyLearning:

Dates: December (3, 4 & 5), 2026
Classes on consecutive Evenings

Time: 4 – 6 p.m. IST

Platform: Zoom 

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/4g3ZuWpo3VX6yT28A

Course Fee in INR (inclusive of GST): Professionals: INR 799 | Students: INR 499

Special 20 percent discount for IMPRI Alumni. Bulk Discounts can be availed for groups of more than 5 participants. IMPRI Alumni can avail benefits through the IMPRI Referral Policy for Alumni & Friends.

Payment of Course Fee: https://rzp.io/rzp/coursefeesimpri
Alternatively, can use any payment method from here: https://www.impriindia.com/payment-details/

Over recent decades, India has developed an extensive statutory and institutional architecture to counter gender-based violence (GBV): stringent criminal amendments, the newly enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), emergency helplines, One Stop Centres (OSCs), fast-track courts, and workplace Internal Committees under the POSH Act, supported by continuous feminist and grassroots mobilisation. Yet violence in homes, workplaces, public spaces, and online continues, and much of it remains unreported. Every few years, a new case sends women, students, and citizens back onto the streets, as in 2012, 2024, and again this autumn. Each time the same question returns: why, despite everything, does the violence continue?

On the occasion of the global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2026), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute is convening this special 3-day online national programme to bridge the gap between street mobilisation, legal frameworks, and long-term policy action. We examine the gaps between law and lived reality, including weak implementation, under-resourced institutions, and the barriers that keep survivors from reporting or accessing justice. We look at the social norms and power structures that sustain violence, how intersections of caste, class, disability, sexuality, and geography shape who is protected, and how new technology has created new forms of harm. It asks why institutional responses so often restrict women’s movement rather than address perpetrators and structures, and what the demand for freedom without surveillance means for policy. It examines who is left out of protection and protest alike, violence that rarely makes headlines in homes, workplaces, and online spaces, and what a prevention-first agenda would require. Open to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers and citizens, the programme aims to move from outrage to evidence, and from evidence to action.

This course is structured for undergraduate and postgraduate students, doctoral scholars, university faculty, legal practitioners, human rights defenders, civil society and NGO professionals, POSH Internal Committee members, public health specialists, development practitioners, and public policy researchers.

Participants would:

• Learn from globally and nationally renowned thematic experts and practitioners
• Gain first-hand insights and networking opportunities
• Get course outline and reading list from the experts for learning
• Get access to session videos for 15 days
• Receive a certificate of completion
• Have the opportunity to publish their essays on the IMPRI Insights Blog, which features the articles of eminent people from around the globe.
• In addition to this, participants will also have access to the carefully curated Event Outcome Report, highlighting the critically engaging deliberations of each session. It will be freely available to download at https://books.impriindia.com/. They can even access other Event Outcome Reports from the site.
• A participant list and their details will be added to the website.

Upon successful completion of the program, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel, Visiting Distinguished Professor, IMPRI

Experts:

coming soon

Convener:
Dr Simi Mehta, CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI
Dr Arjun Kumar, Director, IMPRI, New Delhi

Day 1: Diagnosing the Problem & The Legal System

• Session 1: The Paradox: Strong Laws, Persistent Violence
• Session 2: Law on Paper, Justice in Practice: Where the Machinery Fails the Survivor

Day 2: Roots, Power, and Marginalised Realities

• Session 3: Norms, Power, and Freedom: When “Protection” Becomes Restriction
• Session 4: Who Gets Left Out? Intersectionality and Invisible Survivors

Day 3: New Frontiers and the Way Forward

• Session 5: The Violence We Don’t March About: Domestic Abuse, Informal Work, and Digital Harms
• Session 6: What Would It Take to End It? Building a Prevention-First Agenda

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