SIFF announces 3rd annual men’s right conference on August 15
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.
Approx. Fifty Eight Thousand (58,000) married men are committing suicides every year vis-à-vis approx. Thirty Thousand (30,000) married women.
From 1996 – 2008, One Lac Seventy Thousand (170,000) married men have committed suicide directly due to Domestic Violence.
“Not a single rupee has been allocated for men’s welfare in the Union Budget in the last 63 years of independence even though men pay 82% of the taxes. Not a single study has been conducted by the Government of India to study men’s issues. Men do not even have a welfare ministry of their own, whereas animals have”, added Mandeep Puri.
In the last 5 years close to Fifteen Lac (1500, 000) men have lost their jobs. Marital laws like Section 498A of the IPC, the Domestic Violence Act, the maintenance laws, the child custody provisions are heavily misused against men with false allegations of abuse and the same being used as tools of legal extortion against men. As per NCRB, from 2004-2008, Five Lac Fifty Thousand (550,000) men have been arrested without trial or investigation under Section 498A, merely on the basis of a complaint from their wives.
“Mothers and sisters of men face hostile situations as their human rights are routinely violated due to the male hatred unleashed by feminist organizations via media. As per NCRB from 2004-2008, One Lac Sixty Thousand (160, 000) innocent mothers and sisters of husbands have been arrested without trial or investigation under Section 498A, merely on the basis of a complaint from the wives of their brothers and sons”, pointed Gaurav Saini.
Men, having children, and entangled in marital disputes with their wives are not only alienated from meeting their children – as a social norm – but also face the fallacy of their own children being poisoned against them. Such unfortunate fathers are treated worst than a visitor in their child’s life and are used as FREE ATM MACHINES and SPERM DONORS.
“We organize the men’s rights conference on the 15th of August every year because we have no enthusiasm left to celebrate August 15th as Independence Day, as it will be an insult to all the national heroes who sacrificed their lives for this country. Though our country got independence on the 15th of August, 1947 from the British rule, men are yet to be get freedom from their mundane roles of a Protector (read Unpaid Bodyguard) and Provider (read FREE ATM MACHINE)”, said Mandeep Puri.
“Hence, men’s rights activistfeel that the road to freedom for men is still under construction and thus men’s rights activists have decided not to observe “Independence Day” till their problems are resolved by the Govt. of India. Moreover, this year the Honorable Supreme Court also drove the nail in the coffin with their controversial remarks on the 11th June, 2010”, said Arun Kumar.
“The Honorable Supreme Court, comprising a bench by Justice Deepak Verma and Justice K S Radhakrishnan, made a remark that men should forget freedom as husbands”.
“Observed Justice Deepak Verma, “Whenever a man is married, there is no question of independence” revisiting Justice Markanday Katju’s remarks last year that, “Men should bow down before their wives in marriages”.
“These statements clearly elucidate the social expectations from men in marriages. Hence, when men have no right to freedom in marriages, men’s rights activists in India see no point in celebrating the Independence Day and hence this year they have decided to have a “Sugarless Independence Day” by resorting to sugarless tea/coffee and not having sweets on the 15th August, 2010”, added Mandeep Puri.