About All India Forgotten
Women’s Association:
All India Forgotten Women’s Association (AIFWA), a
group of bereaved, beleaguered, harassed, distraught and tortured women of India, has
decided to boycott observing the International
Women’s Day which happens to fall on the 8th of March. AIFWA
gives a face and a voice to those mothers and sisters of husbands who have been
harassed by women and women-centric laws and have nowhere to go. AIFWA gives a
platform to women smitten by feminism to voice their woes and seek justice for
the injustice done to them.
The
Problem:
A lot of false cases are making their way to the
courts under Section 498A (dowry law), Domestic Violence Act, various
Maintenance sections in order to harass husband and his family and encash a bad
marriage. These cases are primarily targeted to harass the husband and his family
in order to coax them for an out of court settlement which more often than not
involves huge alimony to the tune of millions and crores.
Often the entire family of the husband including
small children, pregnant sisters, old parents, are named in the FIR in order to
put pressure on the husband. It is ironical that, at the pretext of one woman,
on average, 3 other women suffer who are the husband’s relatives.
Do you
know?
1.
Every year close
to 40,000 women are arrested in false dowry cases without trial or investigation on the basis of one uninvestigated complaint
as per arrest data provided by the National Crime Record Bureau, Ministry of
Home Affairs.
2.
In the five
years period from 2004 – 2009, close to 2,00,000 innocent women have been
arrested in false dowry cases, while the British Government arrested just
20,000 women in 40 years as per arrest data provided by the National Crime
Record Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs.
3.
Domestic
Violence act has forced senior citizens to leave homes built by their own hard-earned
money and live on footpaths and gurudwaras due to faulty orders of right to
residence being passed against husband and his family.
4.
There is no
provision of remedy for a woman harassed by her daughter-in-law or
sister-in-law (brother’s wife).
5.
All the
women-centric laws are, in reality, wife-centric laws and they discriminate
amongst women and do not provide relief to mothers and sisters of husband when
the wife and her family inflict violence onto them.
6.
As per study
done by National Family Health Survey, women face 8 times more violence in
their natal homes, at the hands of their mothers compared to that at the hands
of their mothers-in-law post marriage.
7.
Every year more
than 62000 husbands commit suicide as per data provided by the Home Ministry
and not a single wife has been punished so far. None of the mothers or sisters
of those men have received justice for the death of their sons or brothers.
8.
Feminists do not
consider mothers and sisters of husband as women?
9.
When a
distressed mother-in-law approaches the National Commission for Women for help,
she is turned down as the alleged perpetrator is her daughter-in-law?
1These women have no platform to voice their concerns.
Boycott of
International Women’s Day and Celebration of Forgotten Women’s Day
All India Forgotten Women’s Association have decided
to boycott the “International Women’s
Day” which falls on March 8th and have instead decided to
observe “Forgotten Women’s Day” on
March 9th, a day after International Women’s Day as a mark of
protest against inter-gender and intra-gender discriminatory stands taken by
feminists. The stands taken by feminists are just aimed at poisoning man-woman
relationships in the society in order to monetize every intra-gender
relationship under the cute name of “Women
Empowerment”.
As the Govt. of India currently does not recognize
the rights of these women, and passes laws as per the demands of the feminist
lobby or the wife-centric lobby, these women have decided to call themselves as
the “All India Forgotten Women’s Association”
because amidst the feminist hoopla, the society/government/media has somewhere
forgotten that mothers and sisters of husband are women too and need protection
from abusive wives and their vicious and greedy families.
The Event
In order to mark the protest, register the boycott of
International Women’s Day and observe the Forgotten Women’s Day, AIFWA announces a Dharna followed by
peaceful protest march on the 9th of March 2013 at Jantar Mantar,
New Delhi (11:00 AM to 5:00 PM). Hundreds of mothers
and sisters, supported by victimized husbands will be participating in the
event to voice their grievances.
In spirit, they will be supported by thousands of
members all over India
belonging to various NGOs under the umbrella of the Save Indian Family (SIF)
movement.
This event is being supported by at least 40 NGOs all
over India like All India Mother-in-law Protection Forum (AIMPF), Mothers and
Sisters Initiative (MASI), Mothers and Sisters of Husbands Against Abuse of Law
(MASHAAL), Save Family Foundation (SFF), Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF),
Pati Pariwar Kalyan Samity (PPKS), Army Against Dowry Law Misuse (AADMI),
Hridaya, SIFF Andhra Pradesh, SIFF Nagpur, Indian Family Foundation, Men’s
Rights Association (MRA), Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting
(CRISP) to name a few.
These NGOs are spread across the country in cities
like Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Mysore,
Kanpur, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chandigarh, etc. and carry a cumulative strength of
at least 50, 000 members who have been victimized by misuse of dowry laws and
domestic violence laws.
Our Demands
AIFWA places the following demand on Forgotten
Women’s Day before the society and Govt.
·
review the
Constitutional and Legal safeguards for women ;
·
recommend remedial
legislative measures ;
·
facilitate redressal
of grievances and
·
advise the Government
on all policy matters affecting women.
We want NCW/Government to define specifically what is
meant by “Woman”. Is she a mother,
Is she a sister, Is she a mother-in-law, Is she a sister-in-law or Is she only a Wife.
Define clearly “Woman”
in your Bye Laws.
·
We demand a
separate cell in NCW to look after the grievances of Mother-in-Law and
Sister-in-Law.
·
Every year more
than 40,000 innocent women are arrested without any investigation over last 5
years under IPC Section 498A. We demand a public apology to these women, as the
Government has done nothing to address the grievances of these women.
·
Reform National
Commission for Women and Women and Child Development Ministry to include
mothers and sisters as women, in their definition of women.
·
There is no law
to protect a Woman from her son’s in laws. We demand a separate law for the
protection of such Women.
·
Stop the
discrimination against mothers and sisters of husband.
·
Stop the misuse
of dowry laws and domestic violence laws.
·
Take steps to
reduce suicides by Our Sons/Brothers.
·
Scrap all gender
biased laws and bring in gender neutral laws only.
