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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP Population Bill Violates Basic Rights of Women, Says Memorandum Submitted to President

UP Population Bill Violates Basic Rights of Women, Says Memorandum Submitted to President

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published Published on Jul 20, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 22, 2021

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It also requests the President to declare the proposed Bill unconstitutional as it violates the right to equality guaranteed to all citizens of the country under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

A group of women, women’s organisation, academics, health and legal rights activities, health networks have submitted a memorandum to the President of India opposing the proposed Draft Uttar Pradesh (UP) Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare Bill, 2021. The Bill is “extremely-anti-poor, anti-women and adversely affects both the democratic rights and reproductive choices of women, who are at the receiving end”.

The Draft Bill was prepared by the State Law Commission of UP and launched on July 11, with the last date for submission of responses being July 19. It seeks to control population through coercive and discriminatory norm in the form of various incentives and disincentives, which include barring persons with more than two children from contesting municipal and panchayat elections, disqualifying from government jobs, disincentives in education, health and other social security spheres.

According to the memorandum, the proposed Bill is “a violation of Reproductive Health and Rights, which are considered basic human rights of women”.

Further, the Bill also violates “the Declaration adopted at the conclusion of a colloquium on population policy, organised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2003)”, the memorandum added.

The signatories of the memorandum include All India Democratic Women’s Organisation, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Sama - Resource Group for Women and Health, Saheli, Women’s Resource Centre, National Federation For Indian Women, Medico Friend Circle, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch, among others.

The memorandum, which has also been submitted to the the Governor of Uttar Pradesh; Chairperson, Rajya Sabha; Speaker, Lok Sabha; and to the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission, has requested the President to declare the proposed Bill unconstitutional as it violates the right to equality guaranteed to all citizens of the country under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.

The complete memorandum is given below.

Please click here to read more. 


 


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