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Ranchi, Dec 10: To create idealism into realism of the idea postulated in Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution of India, National University Of Study & Research In Law, Ranchi in collaboration with UGC Women’s studies Centre, Patna University and Jharkhand High Court Legal Services Committee organised a national seminar on Religious rights of women and human rights in the 21st century.
The event was organised on the 73rd anniversary of Human Rights Day and will continue for three days.
On the occasion, Advocate General Rajiv Ranjan said that women are 50% of the population and the religion, custom and tradition have survived because of the women in the society.
National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma said that if women are empowered financially then only the society can change as they will be independent to take up their own decision.
Jharkhand High Court Judge, Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh said that imparting education to women can prove to be a game-changer for them in society.
“All the empowerment of women in India and across the world is taking place on the account of education,” Singh said.
Jharkhand High Court Judge, Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad emphasised the historical aspect of the women and said that women make up the majority of the believers but do not hold position of real powers within most religions.
This seminar was organized with the objective of promoting interdisciplinary research in the field of religious rights of women and human rights in the 21st Century to promote and exchange of ideas between the experts. It also provides an opportunity for researchers of the concerned fields of knowledge to formalize their curiosity and to gather the views of jurists, academicians & Legal practitioners.
NUSRL, Ranchi has been established by an Act of the State Legislature prompted by the vision of the constitutional forefathers that the law, legal system and legal institutions have an overreaching role in the human, social, political and economic development of the Nation.
Centre for Human Rights and Subaltern Studies (CHRSS) was created with an objective to work for the protection of human rights on 7 March 2019. The aim of the Centre is to achieve the goals of Social Justice enshrined in our Preamble and to achieve this goal, the members of the Committee promises to engage in discourse, Seminars, webinars, Legal Aid so as to ensure that we return even some per cent back to the society.
