USAID and UNIFEM support laws that violate Civil Liberties in India.

USAID, UNIFEM and Amnesty International have come out in support of laws in India that violate Civil Liberties of Men, Women and Children in India.

The Indian Domestic Violence Law Section 498a of Indian Penal Code(IPC), presumes the accused men and women to be guilty till proven innocent and the police can arrest and jail the accused without any warrant. In last 5 years, more than 160,000 women and 550,000 men were arrested or jailed in India under this law without trial of investigation. (News here)

USAID supports this law and opposes any amendments to it.

Amnesty International in this article justifes section 498a and says:

All laws are capable of and subject to abuse and misuse – including Section 498A. The solution does not lie in dismissing the law or taking away its teeth completely by making it compoundable and bailable. This is akin to throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

So, Amnesty International does no care if the teeth in the law bite innocent men, women or children. So, it would like to ignore Civil Liberties violation if the law is for women's empowerment.

"Save Indian Family(SIF)" members had a detailed meeting with UNIFEM officials and yet UNIFEM carries on with its agenda in India ignoring Civil Liberties Violations.

The picture below show the domestic violence rates of Indian women across states, who completed 10 years of education, uneducated Indian women and American women. This survey is not done by "Save Indian Family(SIF)", but done by US Bureau of Justice and USAID, United Nations only.

This picture clearly shows that India women who have completed schooling have much less chance of facing domestic violence compared to even American Women. However, 45% of uneducated women faced domestic violence at least once in life time. However, the programs by USAID and UNIFEM do not target uneducated women, who are almost always refused support by police, as police can not collect bribes from poor women. So, as the violence against these uneducated masses of women does not decrease, the jealous ideologues in advocacy groups use that as an excuse to demand more draconian laws, which give enoromous power of arbitrary arrests in the hands of police.

The foreign donors often do not care about the negative consequences of their short sighted thinking. It has been found that thousands of innocent women and even children are thrown inside jails due to these draconian domestic violence laws.