Witchcraft allegations and untouchability as forms of violence upon women in Nepal: A 7-year study

2021 ◽  
pp. 002581722110183
Author(s):  
Samata Nepal ◽  
Alok Atreya ◽  
Binu Nepal ◽  
Richa Shah ◽  
Rolina Dhital ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Lower Caste ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
The Law ◽  
Forms Of Violence

The Nepalese constitution guarantees equal rights to both men and women regardless of caste, race, or ethnicity. However, the centuries-old superstitious practice of caste-based hierarchy in the Hindu community and discrimination against people of lower caste are still prevalent. Furthermore, witchcraft allegations are also not uncommon. Both these practices are derogatory and humiliating and violate human rights, and the law can penalise them in both instances. Due to the intersection of gender and caste, women often face multiple forms of discrimination and violence as the patriarchal society considers them a weaker gender. The present study aimed to see the trend of crimes upon women reported by Nepal Police in the form of witchcraft allegations and untouchability between the fiscal years 2013/14 and 2019/20.

A Critical Review on Women Oppression & Threats in Private Spheres: Bangladesh Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Rashed Ahmed ◽  
Nishat Tarannum
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Status Of Women

The Constitution of Bangladesh ensures the equal rights and status of women in public life. But nondiscrimination over women in the private sphere is not guaranteed. Consequently, there are significant disparities between men and women in all realms of life. Lack of equal access to economic opportunities, education, health services and their lesser role in decision making perpetuate women’s subordination to men and susceptibility to violence. The notion of the society about girl children within the family itself builds up a mindset that girls ought to be less important than the male children. The multiple forms of discrimination against girls begin at home and continue to the end of their lives. This imbalanced foundation of knowledge, fully biased in favour of the males of the family, spreads through the society in general, resulting in tremendous forms of violence and injustice to women as a whole. The article highlights the key reasons of oppression over women such as physical, sexual and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of income, class and culture and its ultimate consequences. This article evaluates the loopholes in the existing criminal justice system of Bangladesh concerning violence against women with mentioning necessary possible way outs.

scholarly journals TO THE ISSUE OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE STATE OF BRANDENBURG

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Елена Тулупова ◽  
Татьяна Демидова
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Special Values ◽  
The Law

Equality and equity are the central principles of human rights, being special values (standards) of any democratic and rule-of-law state. A provision that enshrines the equity of all human beings and the equality of men and women should be seen as a guarantee that mediates the functioning of all branches of government. The article reviews the peculiarities of the legislative consolidation and implementation of the constitutional provision on the equality of men and women in Brandenburg. In addition, the article analyzes the Law on Parity adopted by the State in 2019, according to which parties are obliged to include equal number of men and women as candidates in the lists of the State in elections. Different views on its feasibility and effectiveness are studied.

scholarly journals Does Customary Law Discriminate Balinese Women’s Inheritance Rights?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Hanna Christine Ndun ◽  
Sarah Suttor ◽  
I Gusti Agung Ayu Dike Widhiyaastuti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

There is a stereotype with regard to the rights of the Balinese women on inheriting under the Balinese tradi-tional customary law. It is generally assumed that the law discriminates Balinese women as well as against the human rights principle of equality. This article analyzes the contemporary problems of such issue and would demonstrate the actual principles, rules and practices, including the essential concept of the rights under the Balinese traditional customary law of inheritance. This issue has been explored under a normative legal approach where the resources are primarily taken from the relevant national legal instruments and court decisions, instead of textbooks and journals. An interview has also been commenced for clarifying some aspects of the issue. This article concludes that there has been a generally misleading on viewing the Balinese customary law as discriminating women on an inheritance issue, as in fact, the law also provides rules for supporting women’s rights for inheriting. The law in a certain way has properly preserved the right of women for inheriting in which women under the law have also enjoyed rights for inheriting, especially the daughter and widow. In contrast, the Balinese men that are generally perceived as the ultimate gender enjoying privileges rights to inherit, in the practice of inheritance in the traditional community are also subject to some discrimination. The law has provided a set of rule of inheritance both for men and women where they are subject to certain equal rule and condition. The law also clarifies that both genders are enjoying equal rights on inheritance in a certain portion and situation binding under the principle of balancing between rights and obligation for each side.

scholarly journals The Struggle Against Torture: Challenges, Assumptions and New Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-333
Author(s):  
Tobias Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Abstract This short essay offers a broad and necessarily incomplete review of the current state of the human rights struggle against torture and ill-treatment. It sketches four widespread assumptions in that struggle: 1) that torture is an issue of detention and interrogation; 2) that political or security detainees are archetypal victims of torture; 3) that legal reform is one of the best ways to fight torture; and 4) that human rights monitoring helps to stamp out violence. These four assumptions have all played an important role in the history of the human rights fight against torture, but also resulted in limitations in terms of the interventions that are used, the forms of violence that human rights practitioners respond to, and the types of survivors they seek to protect. Taken together, these four assumptions have created challenges for the human rights community in confronting the multiple forms of torture rooted in the deep and widespread inequality experienced by many poor and marginalized groups. The essay ends by pointing to some emerging themes in the fight against torture, such as a focus on inequality, extra-custodial violence, and the role of corruption.

scholarly journals A CHALLENGING ROLE OF INDIAN JUDICIARY AT CYBER SPACE TO CURB CYBER CRIME AGAINST WOMEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
The Law ◽  
Women In India

The world has entered into a new millennium, but from the dawn of civilization till date, the woman of the patriarchal society of India continues to be oppressed and ill-treated.2 Crime against women have been increasing in all fields. In the era of digital revolution women are not safe at cyber space. In India cybercrime against women have been rapidly increasing in spite of special legislations to protecting women netizen. Judiciary played a vital role in the implementation of the law and its constitutional role to protecting the human rights as per the legislation. The most important duty of the court is to protect human rights, and to give relief to the victim.3The main object of this paper is to analyse the role of Judiciary at cyber space to curb the cybercrime against women in India. This paper is commence with cyber crime’s definition and brief view about that. It also focus on kinds of cybercrime against women in India and brief view on cyber legislation.

scholarly journals PROVISION OF EQUAL RIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES RELATING WITH LABOUR RELATIONS IN PUBLIC SECTOR

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia PERKUMIENĖ ◽  
Rasa MERKIENĖ ◽  
Ozgur OGUZ
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

Human rights are one of the most popular topics in modern global communities. Therefore, the adoption of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Equal Opportunities and the establishment of the institution that governs the execution of this law is a significant legal step which permits to actually ensure the compliance of one of the most fundamental rights of the individual, i.e. non-discrimination on the basis of gender. Equality, being one of the fundamental principles of human rights, is governed by international contracts and legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. The results of the questionnaires permit to claim that the administration of Kaunas district municipality pays too little attention to the provision of the information about the Law on Equal Opportunities of the Republic of Lithuania and amendments where of to the employees of Kaunas district municipality. Thus there are a lot of problems related to the provision of equal opportunities to the employees at work.

scholarly journals PROTECTION AGAINST PRE-EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
NIK SALIDA SUHAILA NIK SALEH
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

The principles of equal rights and non-discrimination as well as the right to equality before the law and equal protection of the law are fundamental human rights principles enshrined under Article 55 of United Nations Charter and Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, international human rights standards and state practise consistently view employment and the right to work to include pre-employment. Therefore, rights during pre-employment would also fall within the scope of right to work regime. It is important to stress that the employer must not make employment decisions based on personal characteristics such as gender, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or any unrelated issues to inherent job requirements. Employer must base the employment relationship on the principle of equal opportunity and fair treatment and will not discriminate with respect to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment and hiring, compensation (including wages and benefits), working conditions and terms of employment, access to training, promotion, termination of employment or retirement, and discipline. This paper will analyse the international laws, laws of other jurisdictions and Malaysian laws on protection against pre-employment discrimination. Recommendations would be accorded to ensure that Malaysia guarantee equal rights among jobseekers

scholarly journals Women's Civil Rights in Lebanon

1970 ◽  
pp. 19-21
Author(s):  
Alia Berti Zein
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Right

Article 2 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms the right of each human being to enjoy all rights and liberties set forth in the Declaration without distinction of any kind as to race, color, sex, language, or religion, while Article 16 confers on men and women equal rights regarding marriage and its dissolution.

scholarly journals Kontroversi Perbudakan dalam Perspektif Kaidah al-Aṣl fī al- Abḍā’ al-Tahrīm

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-471
Author(s):  
Asri Asri ◽  
Fauziah Ramdani ◽  
Aswar Aswar ◽  
Andi Ruqayyah Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Sexual Relations ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Law ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims to determine the explanation of slavery in the view of Islam and resolve the slavery controversy raised by liberals and non-Muslims who are trying to attack Islam with accusations of human rights violations and to find out in more detail the legal discussion of sexual relations outside of marriage (non-marital) in the perspective of the rules of al-Aṣl fī al-abḍā' al-tahrīm. This research is a descriptive-qualitative research with a normative juridical approach to analyze the data and obtain conclusions about the slavery controversy in the perspective of the al-aṣl fī al-abḍā' al-tahrīm rule. The results of the study reveal that in Islam the law of non-marital sexual intercourse or adultery has been regulated by Allah swt in the Qur'an and hadith absolutely, namely the law of lashing a hundred times or being exiled for a year for the adulterer ghairu muḥṣan (unmarried) and the law of stoning (married) for muan adulterers. So non-marital sexual relations are absolutely not allowed in the teachings of Islamic law, as the meaning of the rule of al-aṣl fī al-abḍā' al-tahrīm, namely the original law in jima 'or sexual relations between men and women are haram.

scholarly journals An Academic Study of Women’s Rights in the Light of the Shari’ah and Social Modern Issues

2018 ◽  
Vol I (II) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Dr. Badshah Rehman ◽  
Mr. Sayed Maqsood ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Clear View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Day By Day

Men and women equaly play a key role in the society by esuring the continuety of human race on earth. The purpose of their creation as Allah (SWT) explains in the holy Qur’an is to gratify each other and they are meant to be garments for each other. Symbolizing mutual support, mutual comfort and mutual protection. In the past women were treated unfairly by degrading them to slavery and treating them as animals. After the rise of Islam women were guaranteed equal rights in all social matters. Islam awarded women all the economic, social, political rights. The holy Prophet (SAW) also had a great respect for women and immensely considerate towards them as women were declared as half part of the men as far as human rights were concerned. Despite these clear Islamic teachings, women are denied inheritance, choice of marriage, property ownership and confined to the boundary walls of the house in many Islamic societies. This research paper probes into the rights of women as practiced in the Muslim society by presenting a clear view of the islamic teachings about their rights as the need for provision and acceptance of their due rights and deterrence of rigidity and voilance against them increases day by day. Keywords: Rights, Species, gratify, inheritance, Holy Qur’an

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