Indira Jaising is the Director of Lawyers‘ Collective Women’s Rights Initiative. She was the first woman to be designated Senior Advocate (1986) and the first woman to be appointed Additional Solicitor General of India (2009). Throughout her legal career, Jaising has focused on the protection of the human rights of women, successfully defending several landmark cases on discrimination. The driving force behind the drafting of, lobbying for and enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Jaising was also instrumental in drafting the Sexual Harassment of Women at the Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2006. She was nominated to the CEDAW Committee in January 2009, and was the recipient of the Padma Shri in 2005.
