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Written by Virag
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Thursday, 05 May 2011 13:13 |
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Express News Service:
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many women for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married,” reads the quote by Louis K Anspacher on the website of Save Indian Family Foundation. This quote is no joke, says Anil Kumar, a member of Save Indian Family Foundation, a national NGO headquartered in Bangalore that works towards creating awareness about the legal terrorism in the name of women empowerment. The foundation will hold a dharna on May 7 from 10 am to 1.30 pm outside the Town Hall to voice their concerns about terror imposed on husbands by wives.
He says that the discrimination against men by government and court system has gone beyond tolerable limits, not just in Bangalore but across the country. “The mindset of the government and the judiciary has not changed. Men are on the receiving end,” says Anil, a software engineer by profession. He says the primary concern that they will be raising at the dharna is that of the need of amending Section 498a of the Indian Penal Code.
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Written by PK Surendran
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 08:04 |
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Boorish or incompetent women staffers will have to be tolerated
"Adam, who was sweet-talked into committing the original sin, is set to be enslaved by her with the passing of the Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill-2010, which is being presented in parliament on Tuesday," said Save India Family Foundation (SIFF) activists.
"The bill, purported to save women employees from sexual harassment in workplace, is a misplaced piece of legislation that seeks to derail professionalism and efficiency at work and endanger genial gender relationship in workplace," said Virag Dhulia, a crusader for gender parity and an activist of SIFF. "In a few years from now, male bosses will be mortally afraid of junior women colleagues and the work culture will be vitiated because of this lopsided law."
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Written by Ashwani Kumar Nigam
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Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:05 |
JAMSHEDPUR (20 Sept) : अपनी सिटी में दहेज हत्या या दहेज प्रताड़ना के मामले आए दिन सामने आते हैं. ज्यादातर मामलों में हसबैंड या उसके घरवालों को ही दोषी ठहराकर उनके खिलाफ केस फाइल कर दिया जाता है. लेकिन उनमें से कई ऐसे भी मामले होते हैं, जिनमें बिना आरोपी पक्ष की सुने ही पुलिस उनके खिलाफ एक्शन ले लेती है. यानी दहेज प्रताड़ना एक्ट 498-ए का मिसयूज होता है. सिटी में इसी का एग्जाम्पल हैं राम दास भट्ठा पंजाबी लाइन निवासी हरप्रीत सिंह. दो सितंबर को उनकी फैमिली मेंबर्स के साथ बस्ती वाले पहुंचे थे सिटी एसपी के पास. उनका कहना था कि हरप्रीत सिंह की वाइफ जसप्रीत सैनी ने दहेज प्रताड़ना का झूठा आरोप लगाकर उसे फंसाया है. इस कारण पुलिस उसे अरेस्ट कर अपने साथ ले गई. हरप्रीत की मां का कहना था कि नवंबर 2008 में हरप्रीत व जसप्रीत की शादी हुई थी. उन्होंने अपनी बहू को बेटी की तरह रखा था, उसकी हर छोटी-बड़ी जरूरतों का ख्याल रखा जाता था, लेकिन उनकी बहू ने इसका उल्टा सिला दिया. उनका कहना था कि जसप्रीत का किसी के साथ अफेयर था, इसी का पता जब परिवारवालों को चला, तो उसने दहेज प्रताड़ना के खिलाफ बने एक्ट को ब्रह्मंास्त्र के रूप में इस्तेमाल किया और अपने हसबैंड हरप्रीत के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज करवा दिया. हरप्रीत जेल चले गए. हालांकि इस मामले में 11 दिन बाद हरप्रीत जेल से आजाद हो गए, लेकिन अब भी उनके चेहरे से उन 11 दिनों की दर्दनाक दास्तां झलकती है. वह चुपचाप हैं और कुछ भी पूछने पर उन दिनों को याद कर उनकी आंखों में आंसू डबडबा जाते हैं.
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Written by Mandeep Puri
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:26 |
CHANDIGARH: SIFF, under the aegis of the Save Indian Family movement has been participating in men’s rights conference since 2008. This year, SIFF is organizing the 3rd Men’s Rights Conference at Yercaud in Tamil Nadu on the 15th of August, 2010.
More than 100 men’s rights activists from all over India, representing about 15 different NGOs working for men’s rights, will be participating in the conference to intensify the movement of men’s rights in India.
Theme of the Conference: “SIFF and its allied NGOs, under the aegis of the Save Indian Family movement, are calling for a “Sugarless Independence Day”, this year. Men’s rights activists attending the conference have decided to have sugarless tea/coffee on the 15th of August, 2010 and also not to have any other sweets. This is an epitome of the bitterness in the lives of men who are living in a society where there are only expectations from them and no acceptance for them”, announced Gaurav Saini, coordinator of the Chandigarh Chapter,
But why men’s rights conference. “This men’s rights conference is being conducted to discuss and intensify the awareness campaign of the various problems being faced by men in India as sons, brothers, husbands and fathers including skyrocketing suicide rates by men, especially married men. As per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)”, said Mandeep Puri, coordinator, Chandigarh Chapter.
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Written by Times News Network
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Monday, 14 February 2011 10:05 |
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BELGAUM: Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a non-profit organization, promoting the cause of men's rights and gender equality has opened its branch in Belgaum.
It supports men who are victims of the misuse of the dowry act, domestic violence or who have lost custody of their children. It provides them moral and psychological support and guides them on the legal options available in such cases.
Speaking to Sunday Times of India, an activist of the Belgaum chapter, Santosh Patil says whenever a married woman commits suicide, police arrest the husband's family without any investigation, presuming it's a case of dowry harrassment. But when a married man commits suicide, no action is taken. The NGO plans to fight this gender bias.
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Written by Nivedita Choudhuri
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010 22:02 |
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The Union minister of law and justice has been saying on many occasions that laws will be made gender neutral in the next four years. Mr Veerappa Moily, recently replying to a debate in the Rajya Sabha, said male chauvinism and dominance should disappear and that men should never allow women to be degraded and looked down upon. However, the existence of a number of laws that are tilted heavily in favour of women makes the layman wonder if gender neutrality means looking after the interests of women (read wives) only and ignoring totally the welfare of men.
Take for instance the anti-dowry law – Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code – which has reportedly been misused by many women to lodge false or exaggerated complaints against their husbands and in-laws, accusing them of cruel behaviour. Implemented in 1983, Section 498A is a criminal law.
A case filed under this section is non-bailable (one has to appear in court to get bail), non-compoundable (the complaint cannot be withdrawn) and cognisable (the police has to register and investigate the complaint). The law says, “Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.”
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Written by Ashwani Kumar Nigam
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Wednesday, 22 September 2010 23:00 |
मैं अपने मां-बाप को जेल की सलाखों के पीछे नहीं देख सकता. उन्होंने मुझे बेहतर ढंग से न सिर्फ पढ़ाया-लिखाया है, बल्कि एक अच्छा इंसान बनाने भी हर संभव कोशिश की है. मेरी वाइफ ने मेरे खिलाफ दहेज उत्पीड़न का झूठा केस दर्ज कराया है. मेरा परिवार इससे काफी मुश्किलों में पड़ गया है. उन्हें परेशान नहीं देख सकता, इसलिए आत्महत्या कर रहा हूं.
पत्नियों से प्रताड़ित पतियों को राहत दिलाने के लिए देश भर में मुहिम चला रहे संगठन सेव फैमिली इनिशिएटिव की मानें तो पांच सालों में इस कानून के दुरुपयोग के कारण 2 लाख 23 हजार 167 हसबैंड सुसाइड कर चुके हैं. झारखंड और रांची में भी कई लोग इस लीगल अत्याचार के शिकार बने हैं.
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Written by Staff Reporter
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 10:28 |
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BANGALORE: Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a men's rights organisation, fighting against misuse of dowry laws, domestic violence Act and other anti-male and unconstitutional laws, is organising the third Men's Rights conference at Yercaud in Tamil Nadu on August 15.
Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Virag, a functionary of SIFF, said over 100 men's rights activists from across the country representing 15 different NGOs working for men's rights will participate in the conference to intensify the movement of men's rights in India.
Various issues concerning men and problems faced by them, including setting up of Welfare Ministry for men and shared parenting, would be discussed at the conference.
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