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Rights Issues in India - Short Trick

Women, children, disability, backward classes, forest rights, LGBT, RTI and work — one sentence each

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Women’s Rights

Constitutional articles, laws with their years, women’s reservation and CEDAW.

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Women in the Constitution

4 sentences

Bus fifteen keeps three seats for women and kids.

Women · Children (kids)=Art 15(3) — the State may make special provisions for women and children · 15(1) bars discrimination

Livelihood for thirty-nine families

Livelihood, resources and equal pay=Art 39 — (a) means of livelihood for men and women alike · (d) equal pay for equal work · (e) workers’ health not abused

Maternity ward number forty-two

Maternity relief and humane conditions of work=Art 42 — basis of the Maternity Benefit Act; paid leave 12 → 26 weeks from 2017 (12 from the third child)

Nani split one hundred and six laddoos into three parts.

Nari Shakti Vandan — one-third seats for women=106th Amendment (2023, assent 28 September) — Lok Sabha, State Assemblies, Delhi Assembly; within SC/ST seats too · starts after delimitation on the first census after 2023, for 15 years · not in the Rajya Sabha or Legislative Councils

51A(e) — renounce practices against the dignity of women (Fundamental Duty) · 243D / 243T — at least one-third of seats in panchayats / municipalities · 39A free legal aid · 300A property · the first women’s reservation bill was the 81st, 12 September 1996; passed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010, then lapsed.

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Laws for women — years

7 sentences

The sports teacher married in fifty-four.

Special Marriage Act=1954 — civil marriage across religions

Himani married in fifty-five.

Hindu Marriage Act=1955 — monogamy, divorce

Sujata got her share in fifty-six.

Hindu Succession Act=1956 — inheritance for daughters; equal coparceners since 2005

Dowry became a crime in sixty-one.

Dowry Prohibition Act=1961 — giving or taking dowry an offence

Mama gets paid leave since sixty-one.

Maternity Benefit Act=1961 — paid maternity leave · 2017 amendment: 26 weeks, a crèche in every establishment of 50+ staff

Dolly’s home is protected by law since two thousand five.

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act=2005 — civil remedies at home

Workplaces have complaint committees since thirteen.

Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act — POSH=2013 — internal committees

Bengal Sati Regulation 1829 (Lord William Bentinck) · Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956 · MTP Act 1971 (2021 amendment — up to 24 weeks for special categories) · Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 · Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act 1987 · from 1 July 2024 crimes against women sit in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

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Commission and the UN

1 sentences

A cedar tree with seventy-nine rings

CEDAW — Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women=1979 — adopted by the UN General Assembly · India ratified in 1993

UN — Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 1946 → CEDAW 1979 → UN Women 2010 · National Commission for Women — NCW Act 1990, set up January 1992, Chairperson + 5 members, nominated by the Centre · National Policy for the Empowerment of Women 2001 · National Plan of Action for the Girl Child 1991–2000 · Women & Child Development a separate ministry from 2006.

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Children and Education

Children’s articles, the right to education, the RTE quota and the child rights commission.

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Rights of Persons with Disabilities

The old and new laws in numbers, and benchmark disability.

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Backward Classes, Forest Rights and LGBT

Articles and commissions for backward classes, the States with a tribal welfare minister, forest-rights rules and two big rulings.

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Right to Information

Where RTI came from, the time limits, the penalty, the Information Commission and its selection panel.

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Work and Consumer Rights

The rural job guarantee old and new, and the six consumer rights.

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