This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against...

The severity of COVID-19 has led the government of India to impose one of the stringent lockdown and quarantine measure in the world. India is under a national lockdown since 25 March 2020 in order to maintain ‘social distancing’ to control the spread of the disease which has resulted in...