-MaktoobMedia.com 79 cases registered against unlawful conversion under the 2020 stringent law in Uttar Pradesh till July this year and charge sheets have been filed in 50 cases, according to a document submitted by the State government in the Allahabad High Court. Of the 79 FIRs, investigation was pending in 22 cases, The Hindu reported, citing the saffron party-led government’s counter-affidavit in response to a bunch of PILs challenging the Uttar Pradesh...
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Southern states had a higher proportion of indebted farm households in 2019, shows NSO survey
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India (NSS 77th Round), which was released recently, informs one about farm households' income in the crop year 2018-19 and indebtedness in 2019 (as on the date of survey), among other things. Prior to the recent report, Land and Livestock Holding Surveys (LHS) and Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Agricultural Households used to be...
More »Extreme weather events in India made women, children more vulnerable to modern slavery, flags report -Kiran Pandey
-Down to Earth Cyclones in India, particularly in the Sundarbans, made locals vulnerable to traffickers and drove them into forced labour, the report flagged Climate change-induced extreme weather events put women, children and minorities at risk of modern slavery and human trafficking. The phenomenon is on the rise in India, among other countries, warned the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Anti-Slavery International in a recent report. Modern slavery — including...
More »'Reduce Child Marriages,' AIDWA Tells Rajasthan Govt After Assembly Passes Controversial Amendments
-Newsclick.in The AIDWA pointed out that before the amendment, the 2009 Act already provided for the registration of child Marriages, which appears to give legitimacy to such Marriages. The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has called upon the Rajasthan government to take measures to reduce child Marriages after the state Assembly passed an amendment to a 2009 legislation amid uproar. The Rajasthan state Assembly on Friday passed a bill to amend the...
More »Why child Marriage is in focus: Looking at Rajasthan law, Punjab and Haryana HC ruling -Prabhash K Dutta
-IndiaToday.in NCRB data found a sharp jump in child Marriages during the Covid-hit 2020. Records show that 785 cases were registered across the country under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act in 2020, the highest in Karnataka at 184. In January this year, a 27-year-old woman approached the Delhi High Court with a plea seeking to treat all child Marriages as void ab initio (invalid from the beginning). She was a...
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