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New Delhi, Jun 26 : The NCW today rejected the finding of a survey that India is the world's most dangerous country for women, and said the countries that have been ranked after India have women who are not even allowed to speak in public.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, after a survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, has ranked India as the world's most dangerous country for women, followed by war-torn Afghanistan and Syria, due to the high risk of sexual violence.
National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma rejected the survey report, claiming that the sample size was small and could not be representative of the whole country.
"Women are very aware in India of issues and there is no way that we could be ranked number 1 in such a survey. The countries that have been ranked after India have women who are not even allowed to speak in public," Sharma said, without naming a specific country.
The poll was conducted online, by phone and in person between March 26 and May 4 with an even spread across Europe, Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific.
The poll was a repeat of a survey in 2011 in which Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia were named as the most dangerous countries for women.
The survey asked respondents which five of the 193 UN member states they thought were most dangerous for women and which country was worst in terms of healthcare, economic resources, cultural or traditional practices, sexual violence and harassment, non-sexual violence and human trafficking.
Respondents also ranked India the most dangerous country for women in terms of human trafficking, including sex slavery and domestic servitude, and for customary practices such as forced marriage, stoning and female infanticide, the foundation said in a statement. PTI
New Delhi, Jun 14: All NRI marriages solemnised in India would need to be registered within seven days, the Ministry of Women and Child Development said today.
If the NRI marriages are not registered within seven days, the passports and visas would not be issued.
Last week, Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi had said that the NRI marriages would need to be registered within 48 hours.
The decision for mandatory registration of marriages within seven days was taken yesterday after a group of ministers - Gandhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, met to map out legal solutions for redressing the issues faced by women in NRI marriages.
Officials at the ministry said that the discussions were held for enumerating fine details on ways to resolve the issues related to NRI marriages.
Another proposal discussed was holding the properties of NRI offenders in escrow in case they abscond abandoning their spouse.
Escrow is a legal concept in which a financial instrument or an asset is held by a third party on behalf of two other parties that are in the process of completing a transaction.
The official said the move would require amendment of three legislations- Code of Criminal Procedure, Marriage Act and the Passports Act.
The three ministries were asked to formulate a draft legal amendments to give effect to decisions taken at the meeting.
As of now, there is no time frame to register marriages in India. However, a Law Commission report has recommended that the time limit to register marriages should be restricted to 30 days after which a penalty of Rs 5 per day could be imposed.
The ministry had earlier constituted an Integrated Nodal Agency (INA) with representatives from the ministries of External Affairs, Home Affairs and Law and Justice to look into matrimonial disputes involving Non-Resident Indians (NRI).
According to the recommendation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the decisions taken in the INA, look-out circulars are issued as per criteria defined by the MHA, for keeping a watch on arrival or departure of NRI husbands and preventing them from leaving India, the ministry had said. (PTI)
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New Delhi, Jun 26 : The NCW today rejected the finding of a survey that India is the world's most dangerous country for women, and said the countries that have been ranked after India have women who are not even allowed to speak in public.