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  • Women’s Rights in India After Marriage, Legal Rights of Women
    https://www.thebetterindia.com/60229/rights-of-a-wife-in-india-lawrato

    Somme toute je préfère la Chine où l’égalité des sexes est un principe fondamental de la législation qui ne connaît pas d’exception pour les religieux. Afin de protéger leurs cultures il y a des exceptions pour les minorités nationales et la montée du capitalisme a fait renaître des pratiques pré-révolutionnaires. Ceci conduit à quelques abus qui n’ont rien en commun avec le caractère systématique et brutal du traitement des femmes mariées en Inde.

    “Once married, a woman should only leave her in-laws’ house when she is taken for her final rites.” This cliched line is often used in daily soaps and movies to denote the unwavering loyalty and devotion an Indian woman is expected to show her husband and her in-laws.

    While it might be tempting to dismiss this as mere melodrama, restricted only to our TV screens, the truth is far more chilling.

    Countless women across the country live by these words, suffering abuse and trauma at the hands of their husband and in-laws.

    Marriage Registration Laws in India - Complete Legal Guidelines
    https://blog.ipleaders.in/marriage-registration-laws-india

    Due to diverse cultures in India, it became difficult for the framers of law in this regard to lay down a due process for registration and solemnization of marriage, keeping in mind the fact that if any law or policy is found adversely affecting any custom of any religion, it is likely to face popular protest.

    Uniting diverse cultures: The Hindu Marriage Act & The Special Marriage Act
    Currently, there are two legislation framed to solve the challenge of Marriage Registration Laws in diverse cultures, they are –

    The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
    The Special Marriage Act, 1954

    The Hindu Marriage Act , 1955 deals with marriage registration in case both husband and wife are Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs or, where they have converted into any of these religions.

    It is to be noted that Hindu Marriage Act deals with only marriage registration that has already been solemnized.

    Whereas, the Special Marriage Act, 1954 lay down the procedure for both solemnization and registration of marriage, where either of the husband or wife or both are not Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs.

    It is the duty of the judiciary to ensure that the rights of both the husband and wife are protected. In case this union between the husband and wife breaks, it should be determined that if this break-up was a result of actions of any of the parties or not.

    Conditions for a Valid Marriage in India [All Religions] | PocketLawyer
    http://www.pocketlawyer.com/blog/conditions-valid-marriage-india

    Legal Requirements for Getting Married in India
    https://www.tripsavvy.com/legal-requirements-to-get-married-in-india-1539305

    If you’re a foreigner who’s dreamed of getting married in India, you may be disappointed to know that it’s a lengthy and time consuming process to do it legally. You should be prepared to spend around 60 days in India. Here are the basic legal requirements for getting married in India.

    Special Marriage Act, 1954 - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Marriage_Act,_1954

    The Special Marriage Act, 1954 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to provide a special form of marriage for the people of India and all Indian nationals in foreign countries, irrespective of the religion or faith followed by either party. The Act originated from a piece of legislation proposed during the late 19th century.

    In 1872 Act III, 1872 was enacted but later it was found inadequate for certain desired reforms...

    The Special Marriage Act, 1954 replaced the old Act III, 1872. The new enactment has 3 major objectives:

    To provide a special form of marriage in certain cases,
    to provide for registration of certain marriages and,
    to provide for divorce.

    "Necessary conditions for a registered marriage (tax4india.com) - WebCite query result
    https://www.webcitation.org/5syrz9P0c

    Tax4india ›› Indian Law›› Marriage & Divorce Law ›› Registered Marriage
    Necessary Conditions For A Marriage
    ...
    degrees of prohibited relationship

    A man and any of the person mentioned in part I of the first schedule and a woman and any of the person mentioned in Part II of the said schedule are with in the degrees of prohibited relationship.

    THE FIRST SCHEDULE

    PART I

    Mother
    Father’s widow (step-mother).
    Mother’s mother
    Mother’s father’s widow (step grand-mother).
    Mother’s mother’s mother.
    Mother’s mother’s father’s widow.
    Mother’s father’s mother.
    Mother’s father’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother.)
    Father’s mother.
    Father’s father’s widow (step grand-mother).
    Father’s mother’s mother.
    Father’s mother’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).
    Father’s father’s mother.
    Father’s father’s father’s widow (step great grand-mother).
    Daughter.
    Son’s widow.
    Daughter’s daughter.
    Daughter’s son’s widow.
    Son’s daughter.
    Son’s son’s widow.
    Daughter’s daughter’s Daughter.
    Daughter’s daughter’s son’s widow.
    Daughter’s son’s daughter.
    Daughter’s son’s son’s widow.
    Son’s daughter’s daughter.
    Son’s daughter’s son’s widow.
    Son’s son’s daughter.
    Sister.
    Sister’s daughter.
    Brother’s daughter.
    Mother’s sister.
    Father’s sister
    Father’s sister.
    Father’s brother’s daughter.
    Father’s sister’s daughter.
    Mother’s sister’s daughter.
    Mother’s brother’s daughter.
    For the purpose of this part, widow includes a divorced wife.

    PART II

    Father.
    Mother’s husband(step father).
    Father’s father.
    Father’s mother’s husband(step grand-father).
    Father’s father’s father.
    Father’s father’s mother’s husband(step great grand-father).
    Father’s mother’s father.
    Father’s mother’s mother’s husband (step great grand-father).
    Mother’s father.
    Mother’s mother’s husband (step grand-father).
    Mother’s father’s father.
    Mother’s father’s mother’s husband.
    Mother’s mother’s father.
    Mother’s mother’s mother’s husband.
    Son.
    Daughter’s husband.
    Son’s son.
    Son’s daughter’s husband.
    Daughter’s son.
    Daughter’s daughter’s husband.
    Son’s son’s son.
    Son’s son’s daughter’s husband.
    Son’s daughter’s son.
    Son’s daughter’s daughter’s husband.
    Daughter’s son’s son.
    Daughter’s son’s daughter’s husband.
    Daughter’s daughter’s son.
    Daughter’s daughter’s daughter’s husband.
    Brother.
    Brother’s son.
    Sister’s son.
    Mother’s brother.
    Father’s brother.
    Father’s brother’s son.
    Father’s sister’s son.
    Mother’s sister’s son.
    Mother’s brother’s son.

    The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hindu_Marriage_Act,_1955

    The Hindu Marriage Act by an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 1955. Three other important acts were also enacted as part of the Hindu Code Bills during this time: the Hindu Succession Act (1956), the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (1956), the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956).

    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986 - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muslim_Women_(Protection_of_Rights_on_Divorce)_Act_1986

    The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act was a controversially named landmark legislation passed by the parliament of India in 1986 to allegedly protect the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced by, or have obtained divorce from, their husbands and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The Act was passed by the Rajiv Gandhi government to nullify the decision in Shah Bano case. This case caused the Rajiv Gandhi government, with its absolute majority, to pass the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 which diluted the secular judgement of the Supreme Court.

    Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd._Ahmed_Khan_v._Shah_Bano_Begum

    Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum (1985 SCR (3) 844), commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case, was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India, in which the supreme court delivered a judgment favoring maintenance given to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman. Then the Congress government, panicky in an election year, gave into the pressure of Muslim orthodoxy and enacted a law with its most controversial aspect being the right to maintenance for the period of iddat after the divorce, and shifting the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Wakf Board. It was seen as discriminatory as it denied right to basic maintenance available to non-Muslim women under secular law.

    #Inde #famille #femmes #droit #politique #histoire #hindouisme #islam #laïcisme #divorce #discrimination

  • The biography of the founder of the Palestinian Popular Front makes it clear: The leftist leader was right -

    Israelis considered George Habash a cruel airline hijacker, but Eli Galia’s new Hebrew-language book shows that the PFLP chief’s views would have been better for the Palestinians than Arafat’s compromises

    Gideon Levy Apr 13, 2018

    https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-biography-makes-it-clear-this-palestinian-leftist-leader-was-right

    George Habash was Israel’s absolute enemy for decades, the embodiment of evil, the devil incarnate. Even the title “Dr.” before his name — he was a pediatrician — was considered blasphemous.
    Habash was plane hijackings, Habash was terror and terror alone. In a country that doesn’t recognize the existence of Palestinian political parties (have you ever heard of a Palestinian political party? — there are only terror groups) knowledge about the man who headed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was close to zero.
    What’s there to know about him? A terrorist. Subhuman. Should be killed. Enemy. The fact that he was an ideologue and a revolutionary, that his life was shaped by the expulsion from Lod, changed nothing. He remains the plane hijacker from Damascus, the man from the Rejectionist Front who was no different from all the rest of the “terrorists” from Yasser Arafat to Wadie Haddad to Nayef Hawatmeh.
    Now along comes Eli Galia’s Hebrew-language book “George Habash: A Political Biography." It outlines the reality, far from the noise of propaganda, ignorance and brainwashing, for the Israeli reader who agrees to read a biography of the enemy.
    Presumably only few will read it, but this work by Galia, a Middle East affairs expert, is very deserving of praise. It’s a political biography, as noted in its subtitle, so it almost entirely lacks the personal, spiritual and psychological dimension; there’s not even any gossip. So reading it requires a lot of stamina and specialized tastes. Still, it’s fascinating.
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    Galia has written a nonjudgmental and certainly non-propagandistic biography. Taking into consideration the Israeli mind today, this isn’t to be taken for granted.
    Galia presents a wealth of information, with nearly a thousand footnotes, about the political path of Habash, a man who was considered dogmatic even though he underwent a number of ideological reversals in his life. If that’s dogmatism, what’s pragmatism? The dogmatic Habash went through more ideological changes than any Israeli who sticks to the Zionist narrative and doesn’t budge an inch — and who of course isn’t considered dogmatic.

    The exodus from Lod following an operation by the Palmach, 1948.Palmach Archive / Yitzhak Sadeh Estate
    In the book, Habash is revealed as a person of many contradictions: a member of the Christian minority who was active in the midst of a large Muslim majority, a bourgeois who became a Marxist, a tough and inflexible leader who was once seen weeping in his room as he wrote an article about Israel’s crimes against his people. He had to wander and flee for his life from place to place, sometimes more for fear of Arab regimes than of Israel.

    He was imprisoned in Syria and fled Jordan, he devoted his life to a revolution that never happened. It’s impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas, just as you have to admire the scholar who has devoted so much research for so few readers who will take an interest in the dead Habash, in an Israel that has lost any interest in the occupation and the Palestinian struggle.
    The book gives rise to the bleak conclusion that Habash was right. For most of his life he was a bitter enemy of compromises, and Arafat, the man of compromise, won the fascinating historical struggle between the two. They had a love-hate relationship, alternately admiring and scorning each other, and never completely breaking off their connection until Arafat won his Pyrrhic victory.
    What good have all of Arafat’s compromises done for the Palestinian people? What came out of the recognition of Israel, of the settling for a Palestinian state on 22 percent of the territory, of the negotiations with Zionism and the United States? Nothing but the entrenchment of the Israeli occupation and the strengthening and massive development of the settlement project.
    In retrospect, it makes sense to think that if that’s how things were, maybe it would have been better to follow the uncompromising path taken by Habash, who for most of his life didn’t agree to any negotiations with Israel, who believed that with Israel it was only possible to negotiate by force, who thought Israel would only change its positions if it paid a price, who dreamed of a single, democratic and secular state of equal rights and refused to discuss anything but that.
    Unfortunately, Habash was right. It’s hard to know what would have happened had the Palestinians followed his path, but it’s impossible not to admit that the alternative has been a resounding failure.

    Members of the Palestinian National Council in Algiers, 1987, including Yasser Arafat, left, and George Habash, second from right. Mike Nelson-Nabil Ismail / AFP
    The Palestinian Che Guevara
    Habash, who was born in 1926, wrote about his childhood: “Our enemies are not the Jews but rather the British .... The Jews’ relations with the Palestinians were natural and sometimes even good” (p. 16). He went to study medicine at the American University in Beirut; his worried mother and father wrote him that he should stay there; a war was on.
    But Habash returned to volunteer at a clinic in Lod; he returned and he saw. The sight of the Israeli soldiers who invaded the clinic in 1948 ignited in him the flame of violent resistance: “I was gripped by an urge to shoot them with a pistol and kill them, and in the situation of having no weapons I used mute words. I watched them from the sidelines and said to myself: This is our land, you dogs, this is our land and not your land. We will stay here to kill you. You will not win this battle” (p.22).
    On July 14 he was expelled from his home with the rest of his family. He never returned to the city he loved. He never forgot the scenes of Lod in 1948, nor did he forget the idea of violent resistance. Can the Israeli reader understand how he felt?
    Now based in Beirut, he took part in terror operations against Jewish and Western targets in Beirut, Amman and Damascus: “I personally lobbed grenades and I participated in assassination attempts. I had endless enthusiasm when I was doing that. At the time, I considered my life worthless relative to what was happening in Palestine.”
    “The Palestinian Che Guevara” — both of them were doctors — made up his mind to wreak vengeance for the Nakba upon the West and the leaders of the Arab regimes that had abandoned his people, even before taking vengeance on the Jews. He even planned to assassinate King Abdullah of Jordan. He founded a new student organization in Beirut called the Commune, completed his specialization in pediatrics and wrote: “I took the diploma and said: Congratulations, Mother, your son is a doctor, so now let me do what I really want to do. And indeed, that’s what happened” (p. 41).
    Habash was once asked whether he was the Che Guevara of the Middle East and he replied that he would prefer to be the Mao Zedong of the Arab masses. He was the first to raise the banner of return and in the meantime he opened clinics for Palestinian refugees in Amman. For him, the road back to Lod passed through Amman, Beirut and Damascus. The idea of Pan-Arabism stayed with him for many years, until he despaired of that as well.
    He also had to leave medicine: “I am a pediatrician, I have enjoyed this greatly. I believed that I had the best job in the world but I had to make the decision I have taken and I don’t regret it .... A person cannot split his emotions in that way: to heal on the one hand and kill on the other. This is the time when he must say to himself: one or the other.”

    Militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Jordan, 1969.1969Thomas R. Koeniges / Look Magazine Photograph Collection / Library of Congress
    The only remaining weapon
    This book isn’t arrogant and it isn’t Orientalist; it is respectful of the Palestinian national ideology and those who articulated and lived it, even if the author doesn’t necessarily agree with that ideology or identify with it. This is something quite rare in the Israeli landscape when it comes to Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. Nor does the author venerate what’s not worthy of veneration, and he doesn’t have any erroneous romantic or other illusions. Galia presents a bitter, tough, uncompromising, very much failed and sometimes exceedingly cruel struggle for freedom, self-respect and liberation.
    And this is what is said in the founding document of the PFLP, which Habash established in December 1967 after having despaired of Palestinian unity: “The only weapon left to the masses in order to restore history and progress and truly defeat enemies and potential enemies in the long run is revolutionary violence .... The only language that the enemy understands is the language of revolutionary violence” (p.125).
    But this path too met with failure. “The essential aim of hijacking airplanes,” wrote Habash, “was to bring the Palestinian question out of anonymity and expose it to Western public opinion, because at that time it was unknown in Europe and in the United States. We wanted to undertake actions that would make an impression on the senses of the entire world .... There was international ignorance regarding our suffering, in part due to the Zionist movement’s monopoly on the mass media in the West” (p. 151).
    The PFLP plane hijackings in the early 1970s indeed achieved international recognition of the existence of the Palestinian problem, but so far this recognition hasn’t led anywhere. The only practical outcome has been the security screenings at airports everywhere around the world — and thank you, George Habash. I read Galia’s book on a number of flights, even though this isn’t an airplane book, and I kept thinking that were it not for Habash my wanderings at airports would have been a lot shorter. In my heart I forgave him for that, for what other path was open to him and his defeated, humiliated and bleeding people?
    Not much is left of his ideas. What has come of the scientific idealism and the politicization of the masses, the class struggle and the anti-imperialism, the Maoism and of course the transformation of the struggle against Israel into an armed struggle, which according to the plans was supposed to develop from guerrilla warfare into a national war of liberation? Fifty years after the founding of the PFLP and 10 years after the death of its founder, what remains?
    Habash’s successor, Abu Ali Mustafa, was assassinated by Israel in 2001; his successor’s successor, Ahmad Saadat, has been in an Israeli prison since 2006 and very little remains of the PFLP.
    During all my decades covering the Israeli occupation, the most impressive figures I met belonged to the PFLP, but now not much remains except fragments of dreams. The PFLP is a negligible minority in intra-Palestinian politics, a movement that once thought to demand equal power with Fatah and its leader, Arafat. And the occupation? It’s strong and thriving and its end looks further off than ever. If that isn’t failure, what is?

    A mourning procession for George Habash, Nablus, January 2008. Nasser Ishtayeh / AP
    To where is Israel galloping?
    Yet Habash always knew how to draw lessons from failure after failure. How resonant today is his conclusion following the Naksa, the defeat in 1967 that broke his spirit, to the effect that “the enemy of the Palestinians is colonialism, capitalism and the global monopolies .... This is the enemy that gave rise to the Zionist movement, made a covenant with it, nurtured it, protected it and accompanied it until it brought about the establishment of the aggressive and fascistic State of Israel” (p. 179).
    From the Palestinian perspective, not much has changed. It used to be that this was read in Israel as hostile and shallow propaganda. Today it could be read otherwise.
    After the failure of 1967, Habash redefined the goal: the establishment of a democratic state in Palestine in which Arabs and Jews would live as citizens with equal rights. Today this idea, too, sounds a bit less strange and threatening than it did when Habash articulated it.
    On the 40th anniversary of Israel’s founding, Habash wrote that Israel was galloping toward the Greater Land of Israel and that the differences between the right and left in the country were becoming meaningless. How right he was about that, too. At the same time, he acknowledged Israel’s success and the failure of the Palestinian national movement. And he was right about that, too.
    And one last correct prophecy, though a bitter one, that he made in 1981: “The combination of a loss of lives and economic damage has considerable influence on Israeli society, and when that happens there will be a political, social and ideological schism on the Israeli street and in the Zionist establishment between the moderate side that demands withdrawal from the occupied territories and the extremist side that continues to cling to Talmudic ideas and dreams. Given the hostility between these two sides, the Zionist entity will experience a real internal split” (p. 329).
    This has yet to happen.
    Imad Saba, a dear friend who was active in the PFLP and is in exile in Europe, urged me for years to try to meet with Habash and interview him for Haaretz. As far as is known, Habash never met with Israelis, except during the days of the Nakba.
    Many years ago in Amman I interviewed Hawatmeh, Habash’s partner at the start and the leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which split off from the PFLP in 1969. At the time of the interview, Habash was also living in Amman and was old and sick. I kept postponing my approach — until he died. When reading the book, I felt very sorry that I had not met this man.

  • Pegasus, le logiciel qui espionnait les téléphones à distance

    http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/11/17/pegasus-le-logiciel-qui-espionnait-les-telephones-a-distance_5033080_4408996

    Il peut prendre le contrôle d’un téléphone à l’aide d’un simple SMS. En août, le laboratoire de recherche canadien Citizen Lab et l’entreprise de cybersécurité Lookout ont révélé l’existence de Pegasus, un logiciel espion extrêmement sophistiqué, qui n’est pas conçu pour une surveillance de masse mais pour attaquer des cibles individuelles. Une découverte rare – il est difficile d’étudier des outils de surveillance qui, par définition, doivent passer inaperçus – et importante, qui témoigne d’une nouvelle étape dans la sophistication des logiciels espions vendus par des entreprises privées. « Il s’agit, en termes de magnitude, du logiciel malveillant le plus perfectionné ciblant les smartphones », expliquait au site Motherboard Mike Murray, chercheur en sécurité chez Lookout.

    Grâce à un éminent militant des droits de l’homme émirati, Ahmed Mansour. Un gouvernement ou une organisation a tenté d’infecter et d’espionner à distance son téléphone avec Pegasus. Dans son cas, le lien vers le logiciel lui a été envoyé par un SMS [qui lui promettait des informations sur des tortures pratiquées dans les prisons des Emirats arabes unis]. Mais comme Ahmed Mansour avait déjà été la cible de plusieurs tentatives d’espionnage par le passé, il a repéré l’attaque et a contacté le Citizen Lab qui, avec l’aide de Lookout, a pu découvrir et remonter la trace de Pegasus.

    Ahmed Mansour est présenté par le Citizen Lab comme « le dissident à un million de dollars », parce qu’il a été ciblé par Pegasus, mais aussi par deux autres logiciels espions : FinFisher et RCS. Ceux qui lui en veulent ne l’aiment vraiment pas et n’hésitent pas à dépenser de fortes sommes d’argent pour investir dans des logiciels et essayer de l’espionner ! La conséquence de tout ça, c’est qu’il sait repérer des attaques.

  • Cauchemars et facéties #14
    https://lundi.am/Cauchemars-et-faceties-14

    Sur l’internet. — arme_e-franc_aise.jpg, ils ont déposé une belle gerbe en hommage aux victimes du 13 novembre, une mauvaise blague, « Hackathon Nec Mergitur », réunissant hackers et... forces de l’ordre, Ce robot pourrait être utilisé sur des chaines de montages pour limiter des erreurs, Le maire a donc tapé du poing sur la table, S’y retrouver dans les fichiers., 10 de la rue Nicolas Appert, Publicité pour le GIGN dans le Télégramme, The Atlantic publie quinze photos exclusive de l’internet, Si vous préférez les parcs d’attraction japonais abandonnés, Il existe des milliers de personnes qui, chaque année, en France, comme Patrick, décident de s’éclipser sans se retourner., Les jardins de l’empereur, Motherboard a interviewé l’un des fondateurs et porte-parole de The Pirate Bay, Il avait (...)