Ms Iram Khan

Iram Khan is a PhD Scholar at Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi, India. She completed her M.Phil and LL.M from South Asian University, and B.A.LL.B(Hons.) from Aligarh Muslim University. Her core research interests include Rights of Women and Minority rights in South Asia, Feminist Legal Theory and Gender in International Law. She has attended the IGLP Scholars Workshop 2019 organized by Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School) in Bangkok, Thailand. She has also been selected to present a Paper during the Junior Scholars Conference of the 7th Asian Society of International Law Biennial Conference in Manila, Philippines to be held in August 2019.

Project Description - Sexual Harassment in the Institutions of Higher Learning: A Case-Study of Indian Universities

Sexual harassment is a criminal offense in India. But with criminal law consistently failing women, there is a whole trend to go away from criminal law mechanisms. This coupled with the tendency of a neoliberal State to stay away from the affairs of a university in the name of giving autonomy, has resulted in the creation of Internal Complaint Committees (ICC) at the level of Universities to tackle with sexual harassment cases. This has happened without looking into the modus operandi of ill trained members of ICC in dealing with sexual harassment cases. Till now ICC has been projected as a quick fix to deal with sexual harassment cases, but the proposed paper argues that ICC must be done away with for they are causing larger harm to the complainants.