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UP anti-conversion law amounts to discrimination and a violation of the right to equality
What is the purpose of such a law? There is no data produced by the UP government on any harm from inter-faith marriages. Updated: December 18, 2020 8:50:29 am
An analysis of “India Human Development Survey data, 2005” showed that only 2.21 per cent of all married women between the age of 15-49 had married outside their religion. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)
In 1967, when Richard Loving challenged the ban on inter-racial marriages in the State of Virginia, the United States Supreme Court stated in Loving v. Virginia, “Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State…We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race. There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry
Human Rights Day: Educator and reformer Hansa Jivraj Mehta at the UN (File Photo)
Human Rights Day 2020: Two Indian women, Hansa Jivraj Mehta and Lakshmi Menon, played a pioneering role in the formulation of the Universal Human Rights Declaration (UDHR) in the mid-40s. On Human Rights Day we remember the two Indian women reformers who played a key role in making critical changes in the language of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Hansa Jivraj Mehta, the Indian delegate to the UN Commission on Human Rights, from 1947 to 1948, had insisted on rephrasing the line All men are born free and equal to All human beings are born free and equal in the Article 1 of the Declaration. Hansa Jivraj Mehta ensured a more gender sensitive language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.