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New Delhi : “Muslim Women Rights Day” will be observed across the country on August 1, 2021, to celebrate the enactment of the law against Triple Talaq. Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on July 31, 2021, said here that the Government enacted the law against Triple Talaq on August 1, 2019, which has made the social malpractice of Triple Talaq a criminal offense.
Naqvi said that there is a significant decline in Triple Talaq cases after the law came into effect. Muslim women across the country have overwhelmingly welcomed this law, he said. Different organisations across the country will observe August 1 as “Muslim Women Rights Day”.
Naqvi along with Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani and Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav will attend a programme in New Delhi to observe the “Muslim Women Rights Day” on August 1, 2021, according to a PIB release.
Naqvi said that the Government has strengthened “self-reliance, self-respect and self-confidence” of the Muslim women of the country and protected their constitutional, fundamental, and democratic rights by bringing the law against the Triple Talaq.