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Release Thin Thin Aung : Women Activists Urge India, Global Stakeholders to Focus on Myanmar
In a statement, activists have held that the journalist and pro-democracy activist is one among many held arbitrarily by the military in Myanmar.
People march during a protest against the military coup in Dawei, Myanmar April 13, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Dawei Watch/via Reuters
World14/Apr/2021
New Delhi: Several prominent women rights advocates from all walks of life in India have released a statement urging the Myanmar military to release journalist and activist Thin Thin Aung and other illegally detained pro-democracy protesters.
In an appeal, both to the military which assumed power since the coup and to the international community including transnational business stakeholders, the activists have urged that the brutal violence perpetrated on protesters in Myanmar end and people’s rights be restored.
Avinash Kumar Yadav, a third-year student at National Law University, Delhi, India, discusses the recent Love Jihad law in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India and the effect it has on the fundamental right to marry.
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 (“the Ordinance”) popularly known as the law on ‘Love Jihad’, was approved by the state cabinet on 24 November 2020 and received the assent of the Governor of Uttar Pradesh (“UP”) on 28 November 2020 making it enforceable. Section 3 of the ordinance states that no person shall convert or attempt to convert directly or otherwise any person from one religion to another by use or any practice of misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means or by marriage, nor should any person abet convince or conspire such conversion. The law makes religious conversion a cognizable and non-bailable offence, which might attract punishment of up to 10 yea
The Ulterior Motives Behind Madhya Pradesh Govt s Proposal on Women Safety
In the name of trying to provide security to women, they cannot commit the illegal act of tracking them.
Representative image. Photo: Reuters/B Mathur
Women18/Jan/2021
Recently, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan suggested that the age of marriage for women be increased. On August 15, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech announced that the Central government had set up a committee and a task force to examine the possibility of increasing the age of marriage for women from the present 18 years to 21 years.
Chouhan also said a new system would be put in place, under which any woman moving out of her house for her work will register herself at the local police station, and she will be tracked for her safety. A helpline number will be provided to such women, enabling them to call for help in case of distress. The installation of panic buttons in public transportation will be m
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