B.A. (Keele University);
M.A. (SOAS University of London)
Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies
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B.A. (Keele University);
M.A. (SOAS University of London)
Prof. Severyna Magill is the course coordinator for the Human Rights Law and Theory programme at Jindal Global Law School. She also teaches elective courses in Women’s Bodies and the Law, Feminist Thought, and Feminist Jurisprudence. Severyna’s research interests are in domestic violence, sexual violence and sexual harassment laws within the UK and India.
Severyna served the university as the Member-Secretary of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment and played the lead role in drafting the university’s polices, designing training programmes, and overseeing the hearing of all cases. She has also provided consultancy services on sexual harassment at the workplace to Action Aid, India, and the Department of Social Security, and Women and Children’s Development, Punjab. She has previously worked for Non-Governmental Organisations funded by UN Women, the European Commission, and the UK Home Office in both rural India and in London, UK. Severyna obtained her Masters in International Law from SOAS in 2009.
The Right to Privacy and Access to Abortion in a Post- Puttaswamy World, (2020)
The future of human rights: Socio-economic rights, equality and development (upcoming) AHRI September 2020
Berkeley Law School’s (Uni of California) Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law’s 2020 conference on Global Resistance to Sexual Harassment & Violence, May-June 2020,
Women, Peace and Security Conference, Binghamton University, April 2020
MAGILL, Severyna (2020). The Right to Privacy and Access to Abortion in a Post Puttaswamy World. University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal, 3 (2), 160-194.
Chaired a panel on ‘Evidence of the Devastating Consequences of Sex Selection in India – Will India Follow China’s Path?’ Upholding Women’s Human Rights: Transnational Dialogue on Gender–Biased Sex Selection Cornell Law School & JGLS, New Delhi December 2017
Access to justice in Haryana for women seeking relief from domestic violence – a collection of interviews, case studies and evidence, LASSNET conference, organised by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) et al, Delhi, December 2016
Mainstreaming Gender: Access to Justice for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence: A Human Rights Law Analysis, 50 Years of the Two UN Human Rights Covenants: Legacies and Prospects organised by AHRI (Association of Human Rights Institutes), Utrecht University, Holland in Sept. 2016
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