Law making Hindu marriage registration optional condemned
Rights and development activists have condemned the provision making Hindu marriage registration optional in the recently passed Hindu Marriage Registration Act, 2012.
Though it is the country's first ever law on Hindu marriage registration, it will not benefit most of the Hindu women for keeping marriage registration optional, and rather discrimination and repression will persist in society, said a statement sent by Nagorik Uddyog, a forum of several non-government organisations, yesterday. Nagorik Uddyog was formed to prepare the draft of the Hindu Marriage Law.
The statement said the civil society organisations had demanded for making registration mandatory in the act for protecting rights of women. If marriage registration is not made mandatory, Hindu women will not get any benefit from other laws, which have been formulated for resisting repression on women, it added.
The forum believes that rights of both Hindu men and women of Bangladesh will be protected if the act is reviewed and marriage registration is made mandatory.
The organisations of Nagorik Uddyog are Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), PRIP Trust, Banchte Shekha, Steps Towards Development, Nari Pakkha, RDRS Bangladesh, CARE Bangladesh, and EPIC.
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