{"id":12581,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/new-bangladesh-law-could-ease-suffering-of-abandoned-hindu-women\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"new-bangladesh-law-could-ease-suffering-of-abandoned-hindu-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/10\/03\/new-bangladesh-law-could-ease-suffering-of-abandoned-hindu-women\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bangladesh Law Could Ease Suffering Of Abandoned Hindu Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/khabarsoutheastasia.com\/en_GB\/articles\/apwi\/articles\/features\/2012\/09\/29\/feature-01\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGLADESH, September 29, 2012 (khabarsoutheastasia.com): Torulata Rani, 24, is having a tough time raising her six-year-old son by herself in Dokshin Chowra village in northern Nilphamari district, 217 miles from Dhaka. Her husband Sreepodo deserted the young family six years ago. Without a marriage registration, she cannot seek divorce or obtain compensation from her estranged husband. Because she is a Hindu, there is not much the state can do for Rani. The minority Hindu community in Bangladesh follows the centuries-old Dayabhaga Law. According to that code, Rani does not have the right to divorce Sreepodo until he dies. <\/p>\n<p>While India enacted legislation on marriage registration and divorce in 1955, Bangladesh remains ambivalent on the issue, fearing a backlash from its Hindu minority. Things may be changing. On September 18th, amid growing demand from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society and women&#8217;s rights groups, Parliament passed the Hindu Marriage Registration Bill-2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an historic law and it will protect the rights of the Hindu women who face abuse by their husbands,&#8221; Minister of State for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Quamrul Islam told Parliament during passage of the law. <\/p>\n<p>But Hindu women&#8217;s rights activists are not so sure of the benefits. &#8220;The law in no way will benefit the oppressed Hindu women unless the registration is made mandatory,&#8221; Monjusree Saha, head of the women&#8217;s rights department of Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service Bangladesh (RDRS-Bangladesh), an NGO, said. She said that the law could only facilitate the migration process. &#8220;We are not happy at all with the law. We urge the government to come up with a complete law with mandatory registration and divorce provisions,&#8221; Nina Goswami, senior deputy director at the human rights group Ain o Salish Kendra, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BANGLADESH, September 29, 2012 (khabarsoutheastasia.com): Torulata Rani, 24, is having a tough time raising her six-year-old son by herself,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}