Dr. Devikaa Singh, Advocate

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India6 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

23+ years of legal experience in workplace laws
Advised on 9000+ sexual harassment cases
Co-founded initiatives for gender rights and legal empowerment

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Legal Expert specializing in Gender Rights and Workplace Law.

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Skills

Core Skills

Labor And Employment LawLegal AdviceTraining

Other Skills

Labor RelationsConsultingEquality & DiversityQualified MediatorInvestigationDispute ResolutionClient CounselingGender EqualityWomen's IssuesWorkplace Relations

About

Lawyer with 23+ PQE. POSH Expert. Acted as External Member and advised on 9000+ sexual harassment cases. Legal Trainer on Sexual Harassment, Workplace Discrimination, Inclusion and Diversity, Maternity and Labour Laws impacting corporates and workplaces. Guest faculty to National Labour Institute, CBI Academy and Delhi Police Academy. Advocate - Bar Council of Delhi and Solicitor - England and Wales. Previously with the UNDP and Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. Co-Founder: Cohere Consultants. Founder of NGO - Cohere Communities. Parent of a 12 year old who knows everything, three fur babies and countless aquariums. Aided the drafting and passage of the law on sexual harassment in the workplace in 2013 and the amendment to the Maternity Benefit Act in 2017. Advisor to the Government of India on laws protecting children from sexual offences, amendments to the IPC, laws on human trafficking and laws to protect women from domestic violence. Advised the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Surrogacy Regulation Bill. Doctorate holder from the VU university, Netherlands. Masters in Law from the Kings College London. BSL.LLB from ILS Law College, Pune

Experience

United nations

Project Manager – Legal Empowerment Programme

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for leading and managing the project for Access to Justice for Marginalized People, GOI-UNDP Initiative, Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India

Legal Advice

Ministry of women & child development

Senior Project Advisor – Gender Rights, Gender based Violence and Law Enforcement

Dec 2011 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Project Advisor – Gender Rights, Gender based Violence and Law Enforcement, National Mission for Empowerment of Women, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Advised on and participated in the drafting and passage of the 2013 law on Workplace Sexual Harassment.

Legal Advice

Cohere consultants

Co-Founder and Lead Legal Consultant

Nov 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 5 mos

Acting as an external member on Internal Committees constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 for companies such as Accenture, Atomberg, Blinkit, Canara HSBC, Dell, Hero, PUMA, KPMG, Standard Chartered, TechnipFMC, Vishal Megamart, Walmart, Zomato. Conducting trainings (online & offline) on PoSH & DE&I for Internal Commitee Members, Leaders, People managers & employees. Providing legal advisory services on laws concerning sexual harassment, workplace and labour & employment. Conceptualising and designing PoSH & DE&I awareness campaigns and materials. Creator of KeepItRight (www.keepitright.org), portal based e-learning on the workplace sexual harassment law in India.

Labor RelationsLabor and Employment LawLegal Advice