Shabana Azmi’s shocking remark : Women promoting patriarchy in India

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New Delhi: Education and raising awareness will prove more instrumental than making strict laws to prevent child marriage, Shabana Azmi said.

Azmi was speaking at a symposium, ‘eliminating child marriage in India’ organised by ActionAid, Child Right Focus and Beti Bachao in New Delhi.

Azmi has been a recipient of several national awards, including Padma Bushan. She has also been a vociferous advocate of child and women rights. “The problem within our social patterns is that not only men, but, women as well are promoting the patriarchy because of lake of awareness of their own rights,” she said.

A report of statistics on the child marriage and reproductive health of females was also released at the event.

Also, panelling the discussion were, Dr Shrinivas Goli, Prof Sunita Reddy from JNU; Dr Kamalini Mukherjee, UNFPA