Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence

Shalu Nigam is a feminist advocate, researcher, and activist working at the intersection of gender, law, governance, and human rights issues. She has completed her PhD in Social Work and obtained a law degree. Her interdisciplinary work relates to violence against women, access to justice, legal awareness, training, gender sensitization, and paralegal literacy. She is currently practicing at the courts in Delhi and is associated with the human rights and women's rights movements in India. She is also networking with thinktanks, research organizations and grassroots organizations such as the People's Union for Civil Liberties, Delhi, the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, and IMPRI, New Delhi. She was awarded a senior fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Some of her recent publications include: The Founding Mothers: 15 Women Architects of the Indian Constitution (co-author, 2016), Women and Domestic Violence Law in India: A Quest for Justice (2019), and Domestic Violence Law in India: Myth and Misogyny (2021).