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New York: A statue of ‘Lady Justice’ by Pakistani-American artist Shazia Sikandar has been installed outside the US courthouse.
The statue is the first female representation of a ‘justice’ and is placed outside the New York Appellate Courthouse in Manhattan.
Talking to the American media, Shazia Sikander said that this statue was very much needed on a cultural level because the traditional way of presenting power is changing all over the world.
Shazia Sikandar’s statue is also important in the context of the ongoing debate on women’s reproductive rights in the US as the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion.
The artist wrote in her statement that the concept of women as justice has been presented for centuries, but she got a voice to speak in her favor in the last century.
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