Society, Law and Gender Justice in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Archna Katoch
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

The purpose of this paper is to determine the social status of women and "focus on gender disparities in India. It examines the effectiveness of constitutional laws, enactments and policies to establish the human rights and gender justice. In order to draw the inferences, different types of surveys reports and research studies showing the conditions of women have been used. Study concludes that the conditions of women have undoubtedly improved but gender injustice is still a problem that is seen all over in the society. In India the most of the laws are not effective as they are ahead of public opinion and willingness of the people to change the society and give the women the status of equality. We are still unaware and in the grip of customs and traditions which covertly discriminate against women.

Human Rights and Population Growth—A Feminist Perspective

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna R. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Worldwide Population ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Status Of Women

The question of the relationship between human rights and population growth is examined from the perspective of the rights and status of women. A brief review of the literature indicates that no necessary connection between an improvement in the status of women and a reduction of fertility has yet been discovered. The most promising investigations are found in culturally and regionally specific studies. The involvement of women in birth control and population growth is classified, and the concerns of feminists identified. The partial contradiction between the goals of feminism and the control of population, and the relatively unresearched aspects of reproduction are made explicit. The paper concludes that the voice of women should be heard in the worldwide population debate and in the national action plans for contraception, not just as representatives of government, the academy, or the professions, but as women-the people most intimately affected by the present population policies.

scholarly journals Human Rights for Women's Development in Multidimensional: A Step towards Gender Equality in Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Andrey Shastri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Status ◽  
Collection Period ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Equality In Education ◽  
Status Of Women

Women's educational human rights and gender equality is one of the burning topics nowadays. Following the gender equality framework proposed by United Nations in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared "Gender equality and women empowerment". This present study tries to review gender equality for women in many aspects, including the major concern in this review, i.e., education and human right. After analyzing several documents in the net during the collection period, this study sees that women have achieved a lot. However, yes still they are lagging in terms of equality in education and human right. The fact showed women are far lagging and leave alone on the question of gender equality. The present paper explores and highlighted these issues as the central questions related to women's rights and also attempts to wrestle with the few challenges that faced by the women education system in India as a specific example. At last, this paper also try to highlight some strategy as to upgrade the status of women in society, ever since this study believes that Educating a woman will uplifts her life as well as the quality of the nation.

scholarly journals PATRIARCHY AS A SOCIAL TRIBAL VALUE: FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF JAMIL AHMAD’S THE WANDERING FALCON

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4236-4242
Author(s):  
Gulnaz Sattar, Et al.
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Tribal Areas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women

The present study is aimed to investigate the status of women in the novel The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmed originally published in 2011. The Wandering Falcon is a collection of nine short stories. All the stories are interlinked with one another. The novel shows life in the tribal areas situated at the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. In the present study, the researcher has examined the impacts of tribal traditions and rules on the lives of the people of these region. The research deals with the cruel and brutal laws of Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) and the miserable life style of these tribal people, especially the women of the region, as depicted in the novel. The tribal people have to face the indifference of nature as well as the supremacy of society. The rules and regulations of society have a deep impact on the social, mental and psychological development of its members.  The present study deals with the social status of women in these tribal areas. It describes the attitude of tribal customs and traditions toward women and reflects the impact of these brutal laws on the lives of women as well as the poor and suppressed class of the society. This article aims to highlight the tribal customs which, commodify the women of FATA. Qualitative research paradigm has been selected for the novel as it tends to be exploratory and interpretative and feminist perspective have been applied on the sample.

scholarly journals Fundamental Human Rights and UNO Charter: A Critical Analysis with Islamic Perspectives.

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Inam Ullah Wattoo ◽  
Yasir Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The People ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Observation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Short Time

This study presents a critical analysis on the charter of human rights of United Nations, as it was design to promote peace and justice in the world but unfortunately it was not come in true. So the concepts and impacts of human rights presented by UN will be examine in the light of Seerah, and to find out the reasons which caused its failure. It is historical observation that fundamental human rights are very essential for justice and peace in the world. All the peoples have equal rights in all respects. No one is allowed to disregard the rights of others on the basis of race, color and religion. Holy Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) founded the state of Yathrab and first time in the history declared the fundamental rights of human and vanished the differences based on race, color and gender. Rights for slaves, war prisoners and women were not only defined but were implemented by legal procedure in very short time. In 1948 United Nation declared a charter for human rights which proclaimed that inherent dignity and equal rights are the foundation of freedom, justice and peace of the world. This charter consist on 30 articles regarding individual and common rights of human. This charter of UN guaranteed the security of all fundamental rights of all human being. Although there are number of articles which caused uneasiness among the people of different religions such as article No. 19. Freedom of opinion and express must be observed but it should must be keep in mind that some irresponsible elements of different societies are using this for their criminal purposes as cartoon contest on Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) by Geert wilders of Holland in recent days caused huge disturbance for world peace. Whereas, the Prophet of Islām ordered the Muslim to respect the clergy of other religions even He (PBUH) halted the Muslims to abuse the idols.

scholarly journals Job Quality and Gender Inequality: Key Changes in Québec over the Last Decade

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Cloutier ◽  
Paul Bernard ◽  
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

Using a new typology based on information available from the Labour Force Survey, the authors analyse how job quality evolved in Québec for both women and men over the last decade (1997-2007). Results show that family situation and educational attainment are two important factors in the determination of gender inequality in the labour market. The analysis emphasizes the very significant decline in gender differences with regard to job quality (from 23% to 35% according to groups), especially for persons without children and individuals who achieved higher education. The changes represent a definite progress in the status of women in general, although some indicators also reveal degradation with respect to job quality in some of the sub-groups.  

scholarly journals INDIAN WOMEN STATUS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 258-266
Author(s):  
G Paranthaman ◽  
S Santhi ◽  
R Radha ◽  
G Poornima Thilagam
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
High Status ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

Woman constitutes the key role in the Indian society. Women in ancient India enjoyed high status in society and their condition was good. The Ancient and medieval status of women in modern Indian society regarding Equality, Education, Marriage and Family life, Race and Gender, Religion and Culture is maintained or deteriorated. The Vedic women had economic freedom. Some women were engaged in teaching work. Home was the place of production. Spinning and weaving of clothes were done at home. Women also helped their husbands in agricultural pursuit. In the religious field, wife enjoyed full rights and regularly participated in religious ceremonies with her husband. Religious ceremonies and sacrifices were performed jointly by the husband and wife. Women even participated actively in religious discourses. The status of women improved a little during the Buddhist period though there was no tremendous change. The role of women in Ancient Indian Literature is immense. Ancient India had many learned ladies. The Medieval period (Period between 500 A.D to 1500 A.D) proved to be highly disappointing for the Indian women, for their status further deteriorated during this period. Through this study we come to the conclusion that as the women has equal participation in human development. She is half of the human race. But she lacks in society. Women are not treated with respect as in the Ancient Indian society. Lot of crime against women is seen in the modern society. The Constitutional provisions are not sufficient to get the respectable position in society. The paper will help us to imagine the participation of women in social, religious, economic and household matters from Ancient to Modern.

Ioane Teitiota v New Zealand (advance unedited version), CCPR/C/127/D/2728/2016, UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), 7 January 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
Chhaya Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
The Status ◽  
Imminent Threat ◽  
Threat To Life

A 2019 decision by the Human Rights Committee concerning the status of Teitiota and his family as “climate change refugee” in New Zealand has become a hotspot for discussion concerning application of the principle of non-refoulement under human rights treaties. The decision concludes that there may be circumstances where the principle of non-refoulement under human rights treaties may apply to people fleeing climate change in their country of origin, if the people are able to provide evidence on “imminent threat to life.” While the Committee did not recognize Teitiota and his family as climate change refugees, under Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, it also ruled that this case may open pathways for application of non-refoulement in future. The author analyzes the key elements of the decision, while also highlighting that the Committee failed to apply the “best interest of the child” principle under analysis of Article 6.

Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Core Part

Courts can play an important role in addressing issues of inequality, discrimination and gender injustice for women. The feminisation of the judiciary – both in its thin meaning of women's entrance into the profession, as well as its thicker forms of realising gender justice – is a core part of the agenda for gender equality. This volume acknowledges both the diversity of meanings of the feminisation of the judiciary, as well as the complexity of the social and cultural realisation of gender equality. Containing original empirical studies, this book demonstrates the past and present challenges women face to entering the judiciary and progressing their career, as well as when and why they advocate for women's issues while on the bench. From stories of pioneering women to sector-wide institutional studies of the gender composition of the judiciary, this book reflects on the feminisation of the judiciary in the Asia-Pacific.

Democratic commitments to sustainable progression

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Gordon Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective Operation ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Balance

Democratic commitments to progress for all have long been made. The necessary aims must include responsibility for environmental stewardship to ensure that a sustainable planet earth is passed down to succeeding generations. Commitments are also made to achieving universal human rights to freedom from the five giant evils of society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. All people must also enjoy equal opportunities irrespective of race, gender, religion or belief, age, disability or sexual orientation, and societies must achieve some measure of social balance. Politicians have long made such heroic statements of intent, but actual achievement has fallen far short of those commitments. They can only be achieved by the effective operation of all three layers of the real economy, nominated here as the social-infrastructural, progressive-competitive and technological-revolutionary layers. Each layer is briefly outlined, together with the essential roles they must play in economic progression without destruction. Recognition of the interdependence of all humanity and the early stirrings of a rising rebellion against the status quo are noted.

Introduction: Women, Wars and Weapons: Mapping the Cultural Battlefield of Ba‘thist Iraq

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Hawraa Al-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Saddam Hussein ◽  
The Status ◽  
Iraqi Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

W hen Saddam Hussein infamously proclaimed that the word and the bullet came from the same barrel, he created an embattled cultural space which would persist because of, and in spite of, his dominance of Iraqi politics for almost twenty-five years. This book is not an analysis of the status of women in Iraq under Saddam Hussein; nor is it exclusively about Iraqi women writers inside or outside the country, or about constructions of gender and gender identity. Instead the focus of the book is, to use the words of Abir Hamdar, on the ‘ongoing struggle for symbolic power in the Arab world’....

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