Women's rights

With the growing number of crimes against women, the very freedom of women is endangered. A recent report shows that while there were about 30,000 rape cases in the year 2016 alone, only one in four offender got arrested. What is worse is the fact that even the law makers are guilty of crimes against women. The freedom of movement, freedom of work, freedom of right to life itself is endangered when a woman is subjected to sexual harassment and rape. While the country protests over fictitious characters, it fails to shoulder the responsibility when the safety and security of real women and girls is in question. And to add insult over injury, not only does the rape victim is denied justice, her family might be tortured or her character or life might even be questioned. As far as the women's rights are concerned, even the twenty first century cannot be said to be a very good time for being a woman.
A good news for women comes from Bangladesh, where the Supreme Court banned the two finger test on rape victims as well as banned the attorneys from asking questions during the trial which would affect the dignity of a rape survivor.

Hajj disability

The attempt to prevent the differently abled people from going for for hajj by the present government and the claim that they will go and beg in Saudi Arabia is discriminatory against such people as well as an insult on their disabled status. Preventing people from going for religious pilgrimage is violation of their rights of equality as well as the right to freedom of religion. As the government of Saudi Arabia does not ban the old and the disabled from completing their religious duties, rather it provides special provisions on them, such an action by any other government is malafide and does not merit any implementation.

An assessment not worth

There has been a proposal in UK to have an assessment of all four year old school going children during their first week in school to check their abilities in language and math. The aim of the assessment is to check how much impact the school really has on the overall development of the child. The results of the test would not be released to the teachers and would in no way be beneficial for the children. While the purpose of the assessment is to check the school quality, it will put unnecessary burden both on the children as well as their guardians. In order to have their wards pass the quality test, the guardians might end up putting them in special coaching classes so that they pass the test. Not passing the test might even put the child with the stigma of being below average and hence, put an extra pressure on the child in the very beginning of his childhood. A similar pattern of entrance tests in India has put tremendous pressure on the parents with children as young as three years of age going for special coaching classes just to pass the test. As there is no data to suggest that four year olds can be tested in tested reliably in their ability, the whole purpose of the assessment is illogical with resulting in no useful information.