2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
"For hours, five-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded for help. Rescue never came."
One story from this report made headlines around the world. Five-and-a-half-year-old Hind was trapped in a car with her family. Gunfire was going on all around them. For hours she stayed on the phone with an emergency dispatcher asking for help. She kept describing her injuries. She kept describing the gunfire happening around her. An ambulance was sent to save her. But it never reached her. Twelve days later, the bodies were found. The commission says there are reasonable grounds to believe that both Hind's family and the rescue team were deliberately targeted. But Hind Rajab's story was not an isolated incident. The report documents many such cases. Children who were trying to reach a safe place were shot. Schools, hospitals and shelter homes were targeted in attacks. Thousands of children lost their hands, their legs, or were left permanently disabled. And among those who survived, many are living, or will go on living, with lifelong psychological trauma.
2:31Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
2:32The Uniform Civil Code imposes a dominant majoritarian framework (the Hindutva framework) on all citizens of the country. Sania Ismailee dismantles the idea that uniformity can lead to substantive equality. The first episode of Emerging Perspectives is now live:
1:35“There has never been a discussion on why a community is so politically deprived.”
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