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AIDWA hails SC remark
By Our Staff Correspondent
NEW DELHI
JULY 24.
The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has welcomed the Supreme Court suggestion of a common civil code in the country.
The AIDWA general secretary, Brinda Karat, said today that the apex court recommendations to the Government to implement a common civil code resurrects an issue that in the current political context has become an instrument to further the narrow agendas of a communal platform directed against the minority communities.
Uniformity between laws is surely a goal that all societies must strive for, but if it becomes an imposition through coercion, as it will, then it will have disastrous effects on national integration, she said.
"For women of all communities the issue is not so much uniformity of law but gender equality within laws. Personal laws of all communities without exception whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian or any other, include the most discriminatory clauses against women. But instead of redressing these issues, women's rights are becoming a pawn in the hands of the fundamentalists of all communities, who block such reform,'' Ms. Karat said.
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