Tag: Uniform Civil Code

Inheritance Tax-Beyond the rhetoric

As Union Home Minister Amit Shah vehemently defends his party and government’s aim to bring a Uniform Civil Code in the country by quoting Article 44 of the Constitution,...

How just is the idea of Uniform Civil Code for India’s Adivasis and Indigenous Peoples?

The overriding concerns, voiced by Adivasis and Indigenous peoples from across India is, that under the ruse or guise of the UCC (Uniform Civil Code) the rights of Scheduled Tribes to governance and control over their lands and customs will be deviously snatched away

On UCC, personal law reform & the politics of competitive communalism

Crucial reforms in Muslim personal law, especially laws related to inheritance and adoption need to bne initiated forthwith; historically speaking, without the state’s backing, hardly has any reform taken place or allowed to prevail

Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender-Just Laws

Muslim women are in favour of gender-just laws, but Muslim women’s groups recognise that the women have to contest both the Muslim Personal Law and the politics around the demonisation of everything that is Muslim.

Adivasis wants protection of identity & rights, not uniform laws: Prof Virginius Xaxa

Professor Virginius Xaxa -- who headed the High-Level Committee...

IMSD supports a religion-neutral, gender-just UCC

Ironically, in secular India the ulema continue to cling to medieval, patriarchal notions of gender relations in the name of Islam.

The Implementation of a Uniform Civil Code

IntroductionCurrently, within the existing legal framework, there exists no...

Uniform Civil Code Or Codified Personal Law?

In the background of a bunch of writ petitions...

In Case of a Uniform Civil Code, How Should Muslims Respond?

Muslims Should Not Irrationally Reject The Uniform Civil Code Draft

Three controversial issues of UCC, waqf & places of worship Act in pvt members bill

New Delhi: Three controversial issues will be introduced as private...

Uttarakhand: Pushkar Singh Dhami got booted out, yet plans to bring in UCC?

Dhami who lost his own seat, has vowed to constitute a high-level committee to work on implementing the Uniform Civil Code

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