PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2002 ID-1775
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ALL INDIA STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (AISA) .
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SHAHADATSAPTAH: 2,n-31~March .
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PUBUC MEETING TONIGHT .
Vrinda Grover, Supreme Court Lawyer.
Patriarchal Violence and Law : Defining Women's Rights .
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Speakers Usha Ramanathan, Legal Expert .
Urvashi Butalia, Kall for Women .
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Shubhra Nagalia, Member of PUHR enquiry team which has just returned from Gujarat, will speak on communal violence and .
Date: 26.03.2002 .
Time: 9:15P.M. .
women, in the specific context of Gujarat. .
Venue: GANGA MESS .
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A Bill to Prevent and Punish Domestic Violence -Orto Justify and Excuse It ? .
the matter will remain within the four walls ofthe house. Otherwsie every house will become a 'Mahabharar. However, if .
·oon't parents admonish their children for misbehaviour? Just as a child m!Jst adjust to his/her parents, so must a wife .
act keeping in mind her husband's moods and must avoid irritating him. ......Ideally, ifshe teams to stifle her screams, .
Krishna Sharma, Women's Wing, VHP, in an interview published in Women and the Hindu .
she is persistently beaten for no particular reason, then she can take up the matter with her birdari; legal action should .
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remain the last resort". Right, ed. Tanika Sarkar and UrvashiButalia. .
The domestic Violence Bill tabled by the Vajpayee Govt. unfortunately carries echoes of some of VHP's frightening .
means that if she can "stifle her screams" and choose not to be miserable, the husband need not be punished. Also, if .
views on women in Indian families. This Bill actually legitlmises wife beating in certain cases. According to the Bill, if a .
man beats his wife, it is not domestic violence unless it is "habitual:t and makes the victim's life miserable" I Clearly this .
.
the husband beats his wife occasionaUy, as parents chastise their children, rather than "habitually", he beed not be .
punished. Also, the Bill says a man may be allowed to beat his wife to 'protect his property f .
In drafting this Bin, the Govt has also ignored several crucial suggestions drafted by various women's groups. These .
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thrown out of the house, and are forced to return for sheer survival. The women's groups had also asked for emergency groups had included the clause guaranteeing the women's right to reside in her marital home, with restraining orders on .
the husband to stop him from tormenting his wife. This clause recognised that most victims who opt for legal action are .
way which offers men several excuses to beat their wives, this Bill will weaken rather than empower the struggtes of .
.
monetary assistance for the victim and her children. By excluding these clauses, and by defining domestic violence in a .
In a recent case on our campus, too, we saw how a shameful case of girfriend beating, which was an open secret, women against domestic violence. The legal system has always reflected social biases, and the law has often been shockingly unfair to women. .
has gone unpunished, with the only gender-sensitive complaints body (GSCASH) refusing to deal with the case, since it was "not, technically, sexual harassment". The challenge before the women's movement in India today is not simply of patriarchal violence within and without Progressive, pro-women legislation, has never come about without determined struggles and women's movements. .
that to protect the honours of Hindu womanhood and their own 'primary duty' as Hindu homemakers, they need to kill, .
loot and burn Musfim men and women. Gujarat showed lmumerable examples of women's active participation in the .
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the family. The Hindutva forces are, dangerously, mobilising women In the ghastty communal violence, persuading them .
pogroms. Of course, patriarchal violence within the family is onJy the other side of the coin of communal violence against .
'Others'. And this is proved everytime a woman refuses her role as 'heroic rioter' : Kalpana Sharma in the Hindu dt. .
brushed her as1de, but later returned to the house with male relatives, beat up his wife, doused her with kerosene and set .
24.3.02, recou~ts how a woman in Gujarat tried to persuade her husband not to go out and join the mob. He not only .
her on fire. But she lived to teU the tale. The struggle against patriarchal violence on all fronts will continue -and blind and biased laws will be vigorously .
Gujarat . Ayodhya . POTO .. Indian Democracy on Trial.
chanenged by the moments. You Are Cordially lnyjted To A Semjnar .
Swami Agnivesh, Social Activist Speakers : Rajendra Yadav, Edttor, Hans Prof. T.K. Oomen, csss, JNU Prof. Jayatl Ohosh, CESP, JNU .
Com. B.S. Pandey, Central Committee, CPI(ML) Com. Pranay Krishna, Ex. President, JNUSU, PUHR .
Data : 27.03.2002.
Time : 2:00 P.M. .
Venue : SSS AUDITORIUM Sdl-lnteshar, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU Sd/-Radhlka Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2002 ID-1775
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~ -~ .
.f. .--.
-~ ---<~ --~ ~-~---~ -~ .
~ .
I .
.
-·. --... -.
* 26/02/02 .
ALL INDIA STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (AISA) .
,. .
SHAHADATSAPTAH: 2,n-31~March .
.
PUBUC MEETING TONIGHT .
Vrinda Grover, Supreme Court Lawyer.
Patriarchal Violence and Law : Defining Women's Rights .
:.
Speakers Usha Ramanathan, Legal Expert .
Urvashi Butalia, Kall for Women .
.
Shubhra Nagalia, Member of PUHR enquiry team which has just returned from Gujarat, will speak on communal violence and .
Date: 26.03.2002 .
Time: 9:15P.M. .
women, in the specific context of Gujarat. .
Venue: GANGA MESS .
.
A Bill to Prevent and Punish Domestic Violence -Orto Justify and Excuse It ? .
the matter will remain within the four walls ofthe house. Otherwsie every house will become a 'Mahabharar. However, if .
·oon't parents admonish their children for misbehaviour? Just as a child m!Jst adjust to his/her parents, so must a wife .
act keeping in mind her husband's moods and must avoid irritating him. ......Ideally, ifshe teams to stifle her screams, .
Krishna Sharma, Women's Wing, VHP, in an interview published in Women and the Hindu .
she is persistently beaten for no particular reason, then she can take up the matter with her birdari; legal action should .
.
remain the last resort". Right, ed. Tanika Sarkar and UrvashiButalia. .
The domestic Violence Bill tabled by the Vajpayee Govt. unfortunately carries echoes of some of VHP's frightening .
means that if she can "stifle her screams" and choose not to be miserable, the husband need not be punished. Also, if .
views on women in Indian families. This Bill actually legitlmises wife beating in certain cases. According to the Bill, if a .
man beats his wife, it is not domestic violence unless it is "habitual:t and makes the victim's life miserable" I Clearly this .
.
the husband beats his wife occasionaUy, as parents chastise their children, rather than "habitually", he beed not be .
punished. Also, the Bill says a man may be allowed to beat his wife to 'protect his property f .
In drafting this Bin, the Govt has also ignored several crucial suggestions drafted by various women's groups. These .
.
.
thrown out of the house, and are forced to return for sheer survival. The women's groups had also asked for emergency groups had included the clause guaranteeing the women's right to reside in her marital home, with restraining orders on .
the husband to stop him from tormenting his wife. This clause recognised that most victims who opt for legal action are .
way which offers men several excuses to beat their wives, this Bill will weaken rather than empower the struggtes of .
.
monetary assistance for the victim and her children. By excluding these clauses, and by defining domestic violence in a .
In a recent case on our campus, too, we saw how a shameful case of girfriend beating, which was an open secret, women against domestic violence. The legal system has always reflected social biases, and the law has often been shockingly unfair to women. .
has gone unpunished, with the only gender-sensitive complaints body (GSCASH) refusing to deal with the case, since it was "not, technically, sexual harassment". The challenge before the women's movement in India today is not simply of patriarchal violence within and without Progressive, pro-women legislation, has never come about without determined struggles and women's movements. .
that to protect the honours of Hindu womanhood and their own 'primary duty' as Hindu homemakers, they need to kill, .
loot and burn Musfim men and women. Gujarat showed lmumerable examples of women's active participation in the .
* .
the family. The Hindutva forces are, dangerously, mobilising women In the ghastty communal violence, persuading them .
pogroms. Of course, patriarchal violence within the family is onJy the other side of the coin of communal violence against .
'Others'. And this is proved everytime a woman refuses her role as 'heroic rioter' : Kalpana Sharma in the Hindu dt. .
brushed her as1de, but later returned to the house with male relatives, beat up his wife, doused her with kerosene and set .
24.3.02, recou~ts how a woman in Gujarat tried to persuade her husband not to go out and join the mob. He not only .
her on fire. But she lived to teU the tale. The struggle against patriarchal violence on all fronts will continue -and blind and biased laws will be vigorously .
Gujarat . Ayodhya . POTO .. Indian Democracy on Trial.
chanenged by the moments. You Are Cordially lnyjted To A Semjnar .
Swami Agnivesh, Social Activist Speakers : Rajendra Yadav, Edttor, Hans Prof. T.K. Oomen, csss, JNU Prof. Jayatl Ohosh, CESP, JNU .
Com. B.S. Pandey, Central Committee, CPI(ML) Com. Pranay Krishna, Ex. President, JNUSU, PUHR .
Data : 27.03.2002.
Time : 2:00 P.M. .
Venue : SSS AUDITORIUM Sdl-lnteshar, Gen. Secy, AISA, JNU Sd/-Radhlka Menon, President, AISA, JNU .
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