Request to Exclude India from i-VAWA bill proposed to be tabled in Senate
The International Violence against Women (i-VAWA) bill is proposed to be tabled in Senate in next couple of months. There are serious controversies in India due to misuse of the laws meant for protection of women. It is appropriate for US to allow Govt of India to deal with these issues.
So, US Senate must exclude India in i-VAWA bill.
President of India, Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil on 26th Dec 2007, referring to misuse of VAW legislation in India:
““Let me put in a word of caution and sage counsel. Empowerment does not mean setting women against men. Gender injustice cannot and should not be perceived as war or rivalry between the two sexes.”
“Instances exist whereby protective legal provisions for the benefit of women have been subjected to distortion and misuse to wreak petty vengeance and to settle scores. It is unfortunate if laws meant to protect women get abused as instruments of oppression.” Click here to read more.
Some Facts:
- India is ahead of US in legislating and implementing stringent laws against Violence against Women (VAW). The first law against physical and mental harassment as well as cruelty against women, the Section 498A of Indian Penal Code was implemented in India in year 1983, i.e. at least a decade earlier than US implemented Violence against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994.
- This Law against Violence against Women (VAW) which mandates arrests of accused men and his relatives (male or female) has been grossly misused in India. For example, more than 1,23,000 women and 3,70,000 men were arrested and jailed without investigation for under this law in last 4 years alone (2004-2007).
- The Amnesty International and Feminist Groups from India, who received funds from USAID have not given complete information to Senate about disastrous impact due to wrong implementation and misuse of these women specific laws in countries like India, even though they are very well aware of these facts.
- Indian Supreme Court and even President of India have shown serious concern and have warned people of India about misuse of the laws against Violence against Women, a potential gender war, breaking of India’s age old family system and its potential social costs on children.
- US State Department carried a Travel warning for US citizens travelling to India to get married about these draconian laws for couple more than 4 years.
- Statistics and studies have found that women in India are 2 times safe than women in US either at homes or outside.
- The further funding of US to agencies via USAID in India towards aimed at retaining such draconian biased laws does not help Indian state nor its citizens. There is a growing concern among Indian citizens that US and western funding is indirectly responsible for harming Indian family system.
Quotes:
“Dealing a blow to women’s rights activists who have been stringently defending the Section 498A provision of the Indian Penal Code, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Saturday said that in some cases this section—that deals with matrimonial cruelty—was being ‘grossly misused’.”
-Chief Justice of Indian Supreme Court, K.G.Balakrishanan, referring to misuse of the VAW Law enacted in 1983.
“By misuse of the provision (Section 498a) a new legal terrorism can be unleashed. Merely because the provision is declared constitutional, it does not give licence to unscrupulous persons to wreak personal vendetta.”
“In such cases acquittal of the accused does not wipe out the ignominy suffered during and prior to trial. Sometimes adverse media coverage adds to the misery”.
“The object is to strike at the root of dowry menace. But by misuse of the provision a new legal terrorism can be unleashed. The provision is intended to be used as a shield and not an assassin’s weapon. If [the] cry of “wolf” is made too often as a prank, assistance and protection may not be available when the actual wolf appears”
-Indian Supreme Court Bench referring to the harm caused by draconian VAW laws in favour of women in India.
http://www.thehindu.com/2005/07/22/stories/2005072202631500.htm
Travel Advisory by US State Department on Dowry Immigration Fraud in India
“A number of U.S. citizen men who have come to India to marry Indian nationals have been arrested and charged with crimes related to dowry extraction. Many of the charges stem from the U.S. citizen’s inability to provide an immigrant visa for his prospective spouse to travel immediately to the United States.
“The courts sometimes order the U.S. citizen to pay large sums of money to his spouse in exchange for the dismissal of charges. The courts normally confiscate the American’s passport, and he must remain in India until the case has been settled. There are also cases of U.S. citizen women whose families force them against their will into marriages to Indian nationals.”
Married mens don’t have the right to register the case against harassing wife and her parents, every newly married girl want to throw husband old aged parents out of home. in this drama they know husband is always looser. wife and lawyer together get continuous income from the husband in form of maintenance and lawyer unregistered money.(black Money) respectively. it ‘s very funny India like developing country spends husband money to break the family and obviously nation. maintenance amount making rich to girl and her family by sitting idle in home on the contrary husband run behind Lawyer, court, job, old aged parent health, unmarried sister. child custody lost. Legal system is made like once married means husband should loose everything he has like house, money, health , carrier.family health or keep sustaining harrasment by the hand of wife and her parents. failed marriage husband never should recover from the losses this the policy of Law maker. failed marriage is bread, butter of Lawyer. even the murderer don’t loose the right on his own house, but the husband loose his hard earned house and law make him compulsory to stay on road. Don’t marry , IT ‘s now business of Lawyer, Lawmaker,politician, female.
Today female want to marry only for husband money , property. matrimonial law never thought to boy’s of India. intentionally they remain illiterate in understanding there right. except LLB course none of the courses teaches the Matrimonial Law To the Boy’s while about maintenance every female is aware. she from the college life understand that after marriage only she can get free fund money. many girl and her parents teaches there daughter only to get good qualified husband . in that process even she fail’s ten times . they don’t stop her education so that they can lie in society she is learning. same way even if after education many girl parents send there daughter on job to show the society his daughter is doing something.so that she can get married ASAP. lie while giving information about girl age,qualification, diseases,mental problem, love affair is common practice. once married except boys everybody understand pension plan for girl.even though she sit idel in home she will get moeny from husband. Funny thing in today world everything is unsecured. like Job,education,travelling, life but in all this insecurity Law provide’s security of earning to wife. means husband earn or not give the money to wife or Accept the jail food for lifetime. but if wife is earning and husband demand maintenance & she don’t pay then none of wife had jailed throughout India. husband get 1 Rs from wife parents then it is Dowry , husband can punished for 5 years, same wife getting Thousand of money from same husband under the threat of jail, under the name of maintenance , it is legal.At the most she wil secretly marry to other guy and keep earning from earlier husband. who can prove second marriage? because court themselves don’t collect the proof. it is husband duty to keep watch on wife life after dispute.in this big world who will go into whose house to see what they are doing & what is the relation? Go for Marriage !!! and Enjoy the jail, maintenance, loss of house and child…. or Donot marry.. choice is your’s
This is fact in modern scenario. Today, some unscruplus women are really so much materialistic that they can go any extent to fulfully their material needs. I hate this all bullshit which is happing around us nowadays. For some pity things, these women are filing cases to destroy the huminity, moreover due to vote bank politics, these law are getting strigent, more and more.
It’s a proper time to awake otherwise everything will be destroyed by these unscruplus women.
Read http://at498a.blogspot.com/2010/02/economic-terrorism-and-its-family.html on how “Economic Terrorism”(as referred to by John Perkin’s book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”) is one reason why UN and hence USA is pushing family breaking laws into India and other countries(recent attempt being the attempt to introduce vexatious I-VAWA or the International(for all countries) Violence against Women Act)