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National Commission For Women(NCW) Sponsored NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ASSESSING INCARCERATED WOMEN’S PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS IN INDIA On 25.08.2023 At V.O.C. Auditorium, 5th Floor, Admin Block, VIT Chennai Organised by VIT School of Law, Chennai Campus
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY AND VIT SCHOOL OF LAW
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) was founded by the educationalist and visionary Dr. G. Viswanathan in the year 1984, with the aim of providing quality higher education on par with international standards. VIT persistently seeks and adopts innovative research-oriented methods to consistently improve the quality of education. VIT Chennai was started in 2010 and it is a globally engaged, competitive, comprehensive, research-enriched university campus strategically positioned to respond to major industrial, social, economic, legal, environmental demands and challenges.
ABOUT NCW
The National Commission for Women (NCW) is the apex national level organization of India established by the Indian Parliament in January 1992 with the following mandates of protecting and promoting the interests of women and enabling women to achieve equality and equal participation in all spheres of life: ·review the Constitutional and Legal safeguards for women ·recommend remedial legislative measures ·facilitate redressal of grievances and ·advise the Government on all policy matters affecting women.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Original unpublished research paper/articles and case studies are invited from academicians/research scholars/advocates and students for presentation at the seminar. The papers will be selected after a plagiarism check, the permissible limit being 10% of a Turnitin report. The abstract and full paper will undergo a double-blind peer review process by the expert review committee. The confirmation of abstract will be sent to your respective Email ID. The selected papers will be published in peer reviewed journal having ISSN Number/ book having ISBN number. Certificates for Best paper/presentation will also be provided.
Sub Themes-
1. Gender as a factor for discrimination in prison system
2. Women, prison and society
3. Need for gender-specific health care in prisons
4. Sexual health and reproductive health of woman prisoners
5. International, constitutional and national legal regimes for the protection of incarcerated women’s health
6. Community participation and role of civil society in highlighting the problem of woman prisoner
GUIDELINES TO AUTHORS
- All communications/queries should be sent to [email protected]
- The first page should have the title and an abstract of not more than 300 words and at least 5 keywords should be mentioned, along with the details of the author and co- authors including their designation, institutional affiliation and email-id and contact number.
- The contributions shall not be more than 3000 – 6000 words inclusive of tables and graphs, diagrams, photographs, references and bibliography.
- The headings should be in 14 font size, Times New Roman and text in 12 font size with 1.5 spacing.
- The authors must follow the OSCOLA citation method for the footnotes.
- The diagrams and tables should have appropriate titles and sources if extracted.
- The papers shall be checked for plagiarism. Papers with instances of plagiarism shall be disqualified from presentation in the Seminar.
- Both the main author and the co-author should register in order to present their paper at the Seminar.
- Certificate of participation/presentation shall be given to those participants presenting the paper.
- After the selection of abstract the full paper submission link will be provided to the participants through the respective mail id.
Certificate of participation/presentation shall be given to those participants presenting the paper. All the delegates should bring the Id cards on the date of the event
Important Dates
Seminar date: 25.08.2023
Last date for Abstract Submission: 25.07.2023
Abstract Confirmation: 30.07.2023
Submission of Full Paper: 12.08.2023
Abstract Submission Link
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