Tag: Uniform Civil Code

On February 6, the state assembly in Uttarakhand tabled the bill for Uniform Civil Code in the state. The Bill bans polygamy, and mandates registration of all live-in relationships in the state and of residents who live outside it too.

While several aspects of personal laws across the board for all women –Hindu, Muslim and Christian—do require gender just revisions—the current hype around the “Uniform Civil Code: has been silent on whether the privileged and partisan financial privilege of the HUF will be done away with as also the coparcenary rights over ancestral property for Hindu males

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Muslims Should Not Irrationally Reject The Uniform Civil Code Draft