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Trending: Call for Papers Volume 4 | Issue 4: International Journal of Advanced Legal Research [ISSN: 2582-7340]

UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF – Deepika K & Spoorthi G

Abstract

According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and several other regional and international agreements, freedom of religion or belief is an essential human right. FoRB worries about individuals, including independence from pressure and segregation, given their religion or conviction. This incorporates the opportunity to have, embrace, or change a belief or sentence and to show and practice that religion or conviction alone or in a local area with others. This covers the option to announce any religion or conviction and mystical, nontheistic, and sceptical perspectives. Discrimination against women is defined as any distinction, exclusion, or restriction based on sex that “has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, regardless of their marital status, based on equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.”

Due to the historically problematic overlap between FoRB and women’s rights, there haven’t been many attempts to do so. Regarding international human rights norms and standards, neither the Universal Declaration on Human Rights nor the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief mainly address women’s rights or gender equality. With the assistance of this paper, researchers need to understand the possibility of FoRB and what it means for oppressed ladies. We discuss the difficulties that exist among FoRB and gender equality, such as the denial of education or healthcare based on religious beliefs. We try to examine the association between FoRB and gender equality to maintain a turn of events. Finally, we tried to discover a few ideas from these conversations.