I Will Survive: A gender-based & intersectional approach to violence, justice & health for LGBTI survivors

October 2025

As domestic and global developments progressively endorse the equality, dignity and autonomy of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, the data on prevalence of gender-based violence in India merits an inquiry into the effectiveness of law & policy measure in responding to survivors' needs. In the policy brief, C-HELP focuses on responsibilities of the criminal justice and healthcare systems, since their role as first responders directly impacts the well-being of survivors in seeking legal recourse and mitigating the effect of violence. C-HELP recommends an inter-sectoral coordinated response and law and policy reforms to ensure that legislative, executive, judicial and budgetary measure comply with the duty of due diligence to prevent, punish and remedy gender-based violence.

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