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Flavia Agnes (born 1947) is an Indian legal scholar, author, women's rights activist and lawyer practicing in Mumbai. She has expertise in marital, divorce and property law〔 and has written and published numerous articles, some of which have appeared in the journals ''Subaltern Studies'', ''Economic and Political Weekly'', and ''Manushi'' on the themes of minorities and the law, gender and law, and law in the context of women's movements and on issues of domestic violence and feminist jurisprudence. Since 1988, Agnes has been a practising lawyer at the Mumbai High Court. Her own experience with domestic violence inspired her to become a women’s rights lawyer. She also advises the government on law implementation and currently advises the Ministry of Women and Child Development in Maharashtra. Along with Madhushree Dutta, she is the co-founder of Majlis, meaning 'association' in Arabic, “a legal and cultural resource centre〔” that campaigns for and provides legal representation for women on issues of matrimonial rights, child custody etc. Since inception in 1990, Majlis has given legal services to 50,000 women, many of them destitute and counselled three times as many. ==Early life== Flavia Agnes was born in Mumbai but grew up in Mangalore, Karnataka in a small town called Kadri and lived with her aunt. On the eve of her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams, her aunt died, and Agnes went to Aden, Yemen, and worked as a typist. Her father’s death resulted in the family returning to Mangalore. Educated in all girl's school and raised by her aunt with four other sisters, Agnes had her only brush with the opposite gender when she was married. "I didn’t know that marriage was all about beating and oppression."〔 When she was 20 years old, she married a man 12 years her elder who physically abused her. It took her 14 years to separate from her husband, get custody of her children, an education and became a lawyer, the story of which is the basis of her autobiography ''My Story... Our Story of rebuilding broken lives.'' She has three children from this marriage, one son and two daughters. After numerous court cases for child custody, Agnes got the custody of the two daughters but her son decided to stay with his father. The divorce proceedings took much longer. As a Christian, Agnes was not entitled to 'divorce on the grounds of cruelty' under the Christian Marriage Act and had to ask for a judicial separation.〔 Frustrated with the length of the legal proceedings for divorce, Agnes dropped the case entirely in 1986. In the 90s, she began using her mother’s name Agnes as a surname. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flavia Agnes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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