Remember, that these rights are not about what you can get from various organisations, they are about things that your parents, spouse, in-laws and other members of society owe you as human being.
1. Right to Education and Work
Your parents or spouse cannot stop you or your daughter from studying further. The Indian constitution recognises the right to primary education for both the boy and girl child.
Similarly, you also have the right to earn a livelihood and seek equal wages for equal work.
So if your spouse, parents or in-laws stop you from pursuing a job for no obvious reasons, then it is violation of your personal right. It can amount to mental and economic abuse and is therefore chargeable as a criminal case.
2. Say No to Economic Abuse
If you are dependent on your parent, guardian or spouse for money and if any of them refuse to help you monetarily, especially in the case of natural emergencies like treatment, then it amounts to economic abuse.
It is a punishable offence under the Domestic Violence Act of 2005.
Infact, your husband cannot dispose off your jewellery or dowry assets without your consent. If he does, he is guilty of economic abuse.
3. Domestic Violence
Are you under the impression that domestic violence refers to wives alone?
According to the Domestic Violence Act of 2005, any act of violence or abuse against a single woman, sisters, widows, mothers, daughters and even woman in live-in relationship amounts to domestic violence.
4. Eve Teasers Beware!
Are the Romeos in your locality making your life miserable? Are the cat calls, whistles and the lewd remarks stopping you from going out of your home?
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You needn't suffer from it anymore.
5. Right to Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP)
The right to your body lies with you and no one else. Any forced act upon your body without your consent is a violation of basic human rights.
This is a serious problem in India, where the right to reproduction is handled by the spouses and the in-laws rather than the woman.
If you are married, the decision of having a baby is solely yours, since you are the one who will undergo labour. No one can force or decide that for you.
Similarly, you also have the legal power to abort the foetus. But isn't abortion illegal?
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However, if you were to terminate the pregnancy after determining the gender of the baby, that would amount to foeticide and is illegal and criminal.
Foeticide is punishable by lifetime imprisonment under section 313 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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