Vishaka v State of Rajasthan

Vishaka v State of Rajasthan was a 1997 decision of the Supreme Court of India, brought after the gang rape of a social worker in rural Rajasthan, in which the Court laid down binding guidelines defining sexual harassment at the workplace and requiring employers to prevent and address it, drawing on international conventions such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women because no domestic legislation on the subject then existed. These Vishaka Guidelines remained binding law in India until Parliament enacted the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act in 2013, which substantially codified them.