498anews

stop i-vawa

Fighting Legal Terror — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:19:18 +0000

Friends, My GOD!!! This is much more dangerous than I was thinking…Many women organizations across world are pushing for this in a co-ordinate way…Draft version of the bill does not say a word about violence against MEN. Believe me we need to mark our strong protest. I am sure Gorky and other senior members are chalking out a strategy for all of us but it is the duty and responsibility of each of us to contribute and do our bit to stop this. Before discussing further please understand the seriousness of the problem. Just Google I-VAWA and you know they have already done planning to… …Finish MEN… …Make MEN slave… …To make further gender biased laws… …Accelerate the process of misuse… So what we need to do? I am spending some time on it to come up with simple ways for our members to participate and mark our protest… They are… • Poll – One initiative is open on http://bhavyafoundation.org/ • Send protest letters • Send protest emails • Each blog of all members will host protest letters • Write comments for each article • Start collecting mass signatures against it. We will do it tomorrow at Candle Light Protest • All websites to put flash news (blinking) on the home page Guys believe me, at first I did not understood the seriousness of the problem. If this bill is passed then it is going to be disaster. http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-Why-Stop-CEDAW-IVAWA.pdf Why We Must Stop CEDAW and I-VAWA Senator Joe Biden will soon be introducing two bills that, if passed, will worsen our domestic violence programs and lead to family break-up: 1. CEDAW CEDAW is a treaty promoted by the United Nations. CEDAW stands for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. General Recommendation #19 of CEDAW addresses Violence Against Women. The recommendation does not say anything about violence against men: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/recommendations/recomm.htm#recom19 If CEDAW is ratified by the Senate, then a U.N. compliance committee would be empowered to review a broad range of U.S. domestic laws and request that changes be made. Passage of CEDAW would make it more difficult to reform the Violence Against Women Act. 2. International Violence Against Women Act Senator Biden’s companion bill is the International Violence Against Women Act – I-VAWA for short. IVAWA is based on a one-sided survey by the World Health Organization that didn’t bother assess male victimization. I-VAWA would be used to funnel U.S. taxpayer money to CEDAW-mandated programs around the world. More information about I-VAWA is available from the Family Violence Prevention Fund: http://www.endabuse.org/programs/printable/display.php3?NewsFlashID=771 What Can I Do to Stop CEDAW and I-VAWA? CEDAW and I-VAWA are based on the myth that only men commit domestic violence and only women are victims. But research paints a very different picture: women are at least as likely as men to engage in partner abuse: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41H3a.pdf RADAR’s Special Reports document how domestic violence programs in the United States violate the civil liberties of the falsely-accused, discriminate against many victims of abuse, weaken families, and harm children. Plus, these programs are ineffective in stopping abuse and may actually place victims at greater risk of violence. CEDAW and I-VAWA are two bills with innocent-sounding names that would break up families, harm children, and worsen the injustices of the current system. Help get the truth out about the destructive effects of CEDAW and I-VAWA: http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-CEDAW-and-IVAWA.pdf And contact your elected officials today. Tell them to protect families and children. Tell them to “Vote ‘No’ on CEDAW and I-VAWA.” Actual bill… http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h5927ih.txt.pdf Protest… http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20080527.php http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-CEDAW-and-IVAWA.pdf http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARflyer-Why-Stop-CEDAW-IVAWA.pdf http://498amisuse.wordpress.com/category/stop-i-vawa/ Study show MEN are victims of DV http://www.mediaradar.org/media_fact_sheet.php VAWA Harms African-American Communities VAWA Harms African-American Communities STOP I-VAWA http://www.mediaradar.org/radar_flyers.php

Secrecy around the selection process of judges was not unique to India – CJI

Fighting Legal Terror — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:00:37 +0000

This is what our Chief Justice of India tells in the wake of his recent request to our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from comman man’s whistle – The Right to Information Act 2005. Apparently our Chief Justice is not comfortable with the queries raised by the common man using this Act. He feels that the public are intruding into the Judicial system and causing erosion of judicial independence. This has made our government to make changes and take off the freedom of the common man to ask questions.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-mulls-changes-in-RTI-Act/articleshow/5308959.cms

Any change to the Right to Information Act 2005 is a serious threat to the freedom of common man, a serious threat to democracy.

Is this Act being misused in any way?
Do we really need changes to the current Right to Information Act 2005?
Is this Act really a threat to the judiciary or for that matter any department?
Are these questions of common man can really erode the independence of our system, if so to what extent?
Does our CJI has a case to change this Act?

Let’s start the discussion now… I welcome you to please comment on these questions…

Any common man approches any department with an application under Right to Information Act 2005 with an intention to collect information for various reasons – It could be out of curiosity, or he wants to know the status of any application that he made to any department, or he wanted to know about the statistics in a particular department which he can use to expose the government’s or any bearucrat’s or any department’s false claims.

Like the exaggerated data claimed by the Women & Child Development ministry regarding the violence against women and the evil of Dowry system. Many people who made applications under this Act to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) have shown the paltry genuine cases and exposed the false claims made by the ministry for obviuos reasons of its survival, for want of exorbiant funds to be eaten up by the ministry, the bureaucrats, the women organizations, etc.,

This Act in more than one way has empowered the common man.

The claims of CJI that chronic litigants are troubling the system is a vague statement no backed up by any data. He doesn’t have any case to claim a change in the Act. CJI is asking for more independence, he is unwilling to bring transparency into the system which is a matter of concern. We have barged into the 21st centuary by flying high the flags of democracy, we cannot go back to red ribbon raj days…

I welcome you to put forward your comments on these questions…

Mahesh.M
http://www.498a.org.in

Misuse of Section 498 A – PIB

Fighting Legal Terror — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:50:53 +0000

http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=55062

Lok Sabha

A number of representations have been received from various quarters regarding the misuse of the provision of Section 498A of IPC. Information regarding its misuse is not collected by National Crime Records Bureau. Giving this information in the Lok Sabha to a written question Dr.M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice said that the matter has been referred to the Law Commission of India to study the use of the provision of this section and hold consultation and suggest amendments, if any, to the provision. An advisory has also been issued to the State Governments to prevent the misuse of the said section.

VLK/ska

Women are as much villainous as men

Fighting Legal Terror — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:47:42 +0000

Assume that 2 MEN drag a WOMAN in road or quarrel with her, other people who are watching that will stop them. The public will feel that those men are harassing that women and they might cause harm to her.

Similarly if 2 MEN drag a MAN in road or quarrel with him, public will still stop them and mediate them to resolve the issue.

But, If a WOMEN drag another WOMAN in road or quarrel with her, public will not object.

Similarly if a WOMEN drag a MAN in road or quarrel with him, then public will simply watch and enjoy the fun, they will not interrupt. This is the mentality of general public that thinks that no woman can do mistake. This is the psychological thinking of public. Two women in Bangalore took this psychological thinking as an advantage and they kidnapped another woman and forced her to prostitution.

On Nov 25, two women in Bangalore kidnapped a girl in broad day light and forced her to prostitution…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Women-arrested-for-kidnapping-minor-girl/articleshow/5320184.cms

After reading this article in Times of India, atleast now, public should change their mindset that not every woman is Holy.

Mahesh
http://www.family-harmony.org
http://www.498a.org.in

Legalizing prostitution – A social catastrophe.

Fighting Legal Terror — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:44:25 +0000

This is the most horrible news I ever read… How can an Apex body like Hon’ble Supreme court make such a statement…

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Legalize-prostitution-if-you-cant-curb-it-SC-to-govt/articleshow/5322127.cms

Legalizing prostitution??? come on… what does SC wants??? Does it want to exploit innocent women who are living happily with their families???

I really don’t understand how it will save the young innocent girls by legalizing the prostitution…

Legalizing prostitution, will create a social catastrophe. Men will not marry women… they will just use the prostitutes. which results in women who want to live in a marriage left with less options.
Women will not marry, they will take this as a career… this will result in men who want to live in a marriage left with less options.

It will create a medical hazard… people will suffer with more veneral dieseases.

Supreme Court has commited a gross error in giving an economic angle into a social problem. Prostitution is a social issue not an economical issue. In US & UK more and more women are taking up prostitution even though they are economically well-off and even though they have social security provided… They are turning to prostitution, because it is easy money there…

Of course, uplifting the people BPL is a priority, but that in no way help in eradicating this social issue of prostitution…

To solve the issue of prostitution, we need to bring a social change… change in the mindsets of people… change the life styles of the people.. making them social security to people and social happiness…

On one side more and more families are getting divided because of increasing number of divorces, misue of law by women using acts like dowry… The court cases take years to resolve making these sex starved people go to prostitues for fulfilling their needs…

I don’t understand on how it will benefit our society by legalizing the prostitution…
Please give your comments…
Mahesh
http://www.family-harmony.org
http://www.498a.org.in

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/deccan50yearsago/183

Fighting Legal Terror — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:52:06 +0000

Dowry Prohibition Bill passedDecember 17th, 2009 New Delhi, Dec. 16: The Rajya Sabha today passed the Dowry Prohibition Bill but after deleting a controversial explanation, added by the Lok Sabha, thus making the Bill more vigorous. To the definition of Dowry the Rajya Sabha made two other amendments in the Bill, one of which deletes the provision making penal “the demand” of a dowry. The Bill will now go back to the Lok Sabha for its concurrence to the amendments. The deletion of “explanation one” to the definition of the Dowry restores the position to what it was when both the Houses reported to Parliament. The explanation has been added in the Lok Sabha on an official amendment but was deleted by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha after the Law Minister had announced that there was no whip. The explanation sought to exempt from the definition of “dowry” prohibited by the Bill. “Any presents made at the time of a marriage in the form of cash, ornaments, clothes or others articles”…. “unless they are made as consideration for the marriage of the parties.” The deletion of the clause penalising the “demand” of the dowry was effected by 25 votes to 21. The Law Minister agreed with members who demanded deletion that the provision might give rise to blackmail. The third amendment accepted by the House, by 21 votes to 19, added the words “directly or indirectly” to the definition of dowry, namely, “any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given, directly or indirectly etc.”This amendment also restores the position to what it was in the Joint Committee’s Report.

Helpline numbers for advice, help and strategy to fight the misuse of 498a, DV Act, Divorce, Child custody, RCR, transfer petition, bail, CrPc 125, Maintenance etc

Fighting Legal Terror — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:04:51 +0000

Helpline for advice, help and strategy to fight the misuse of 498a, DV Act, Divorce, Child custody, RCR, transfer petition, bail, CrPc 125, Maintenance etc

State	District	Name	Contact	email
INDIA
All-over-India	Bangalore	Suresh P	09880141531	psuresh29@yahoo.com
Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Venkuby Rao	09963399235
	Kurnool	Uday R	09731711552	utathi@yahoo.com
	Tirupati	Rajesh	09945813876
	Anantapur	Lokesh	09900570087
	Vizag	Firoz	09640203860	siff.docs@gmail.com
Assam		Mrs. Gogoi	09435548142
		Ranjeet	09435558616
Delhi	Delhi	D. Arun Kumar	09811624141	ishqindia@gmail.com
		Vijay Naru	09810407895	vijaynaru@gmail.com
		Niladri	09811052770
		Helpline	09871763056
Gujrat	Rajkot	kiran paija	090999 21878	kpaija@gmail.com
Haryana		Shonee Kapoor	To be updated soon	harassed.by.498a@gmail.com
JK		Vijay	09906907950	vijaiksingh@gmail.com
Karnataka	Bangalore	Suresh P	09880141531	psuresh29@yahoo.com
		Mahesh M	09845448472	mamah85@yahoo.com

	Gulbarga, Raichur	SP Patil	09742684285	somnathpatil@yahoo.co.in
	Dharwad	Satish	09900293628
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Gokul	093221 56141
Rajasthan	Jodhpur	Nishat B	09784619178	nishatbharti@yahoo.com
Tamilnadu	Erode	Krishna	09894103539	luvly.krissy@gmail.com
	Chennai	Manoj	09840324551
		Suresh	09941012958
		Kalai	09445119559
	Coimbatore	Padmanaban	09790019658
UP	Lucknow	Yaksh	09793530430
INTERNATIONAL
USA	New Jersey	Shankar Reddy	201-772-6688
UK & Europe		Hardik Mehta	0044-7886 582 816	hardikm007@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

We need Volunteers to manage and handle 498a/DV victim calls in different Cities/State. We get many calls per day from 498a/DV victims from various part of the country. We believe victims can get effective help from local guys in his city. Request you to send your contact number which will be published on below websites. Those ready to help victims please mail their contact details (mobile number, email and city) to psuresh29@yahoo.com or mamah85@yahoo.com

Regards

Suresh P

www.family-harmony.org	498afaq.wordpress.com	498anews.wordpress.com
www.498a.org.in	498arti.wordpress.com
498amisuse.wordpress.com	498atep.wordpress.com
498ahelpline.wordpress.com	498aadvice.wordpress.com
false498a.wordpress.com	498adivorce.wordpress.com
misuseof498a.wordpress.com	karnatakahighcourt.wordpress.com
dvact.wordpress.com	dvjudgements.wordpress.com
498ajudgements.wordpress.com	divorcejudgements.wordpress.com