Abstract
This viewpoint aims to analyse the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013 from a legal perspective. In doing so, it discusses the statutory safeguards of rights to a dignified life of a woman by analysing the various existing laws, which have been significantly amended to build the Criminal Act, 2013. These laws are: Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860; Indian Evidence Act 1872, Code of Criminal Procedure as amended in 1973, Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act 1956, Information Technology Act 2000, The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000, The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013. In the conclusion, I urge that although efficient laws are in operation in India towards protecting the right to live with dignity of women, however, incidents of violence against women are on the rise. Hence, a concerted effort in bringing appropriate attitudinal change is the task ahead for all Indians.
Highlights
This viewpoint aims to analyse the Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013 from a legal perspective
I urge that efficient laws are in operation in India towards protecting the right to live with dignity of women, incidents of violence against women are on the rise
The United Nations (UN) has brought to international attention a few of the issues such as de‐colonisation, human rights, women’s rights, economic development, protection of environment and the problem of population explosion.[2]
Summary
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) declares in its Preamble that: ‘[w]e the people of the United Nations [are] determined to save succeeding generation from scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind [and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women’.1 This Charter has become a practical document. The Charter of the United Nations (UN) declares in its Preamble that: ‘[w]e the people of the United Nations [are] determined to save succeeding generation from scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind [and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women’.1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights[4] proclaims that that the people of the UN have reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of human person and in the equal rights of men and women, determined through its Charter to promote social progress and better standard and freedom of life It provides[5] that all human being be born free and equal in dignity and rights, being endowed with reasons and conscience with the obligation to act towards one another in a spirit of unity. The state participants 3 undertook to submit a report on the legislative, judicial, and administrative and other measures to give effect to the provisions of the Convention
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