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The improvements are many, below are just a few examples:Israel abolishes the Israeli Military Governorate in the Gaza strip and pulls out. Hamas performs a military coup and takes hold of the strip. Hamas turns Gazans into human shields in its wars of Jihad against Israel.Since the Oslo Accords, when the PLO/PA (in Areas A+B) were given the authority over the media, generations of Arab children where exposed to official incitement, with the ensuing scores of Arab teenagers trying to instigate terrorist acts and dying or being incarcerated as a result.Greatly enhanced freedom of speech:One of the principal deterrents to speaking out against Palestinian irredentism and terror in the Palestinian Authority is the threat of being murdered. By the end of the first intifada in the early 1990s, more Palestinians were killed by their fellow Palestinians than died in clashes with Israeli security forces. During the Palestinian War, intimidation and murder were used to muzzle dissent. Usually those seeking peace or an end to terror are labeled “collaborators” and, if they are lucky, arrested by the Palestinian Authority. The unlucky ones are murdered, often in grisly and public ways, such as stringing them up from lamp posts in public squares to send the message that a similar fate awaits anyone who dares cross those seeking Israel’s destruction.“If Muslims claim that we are against violence, why aren’t we demonstrating in the streets against suicide bombings? Why is it so much easier to draw us into protest against a French ban on the hijab, but next to impossible to exorcise ourselves about slavery, stonings and suicide killings? Where’s our collective conscience?”—Muslim author Irshad Manji¹Palestinian Christians’ right are respected:In Gaza only about 2,000 Christians live among more than one million Muslims. The population has declined as Hamas persecution has intensified.On June 14, 2007, the Rosary Sisters School and Latin Church in the Gaza Strip were ransacked, burned and looted by Hamas gunmen who used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the buildings. Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the Latin community in Gaza, expressed outrage that copies of the Bible were burned, crosses destroyed and computers and other equipment stolen. The same year, the owner of Gaza’s only Christian bookstore was murdered.²“I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza,” said Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that opened a “military wing” to enforce Muslim law in Gaza. The application of Islamic law, he said, includes a prohibition on alcohol and a requirement that women be covered at all times while in public.³Critics of Israel who express concern for Christians, such as Jimmy Carter, have consistently ignored the persistent discrimination and abuse of Christians by Muslims throughout the Middle East. It is therefore not surprising that they have remained silent while Palestinian Muslims persecute Christians. The Christian position throughout the territories has always been precarious, which is why many have fled the Palestinian Authority.Human rights:Palestinians are deprived of the freedoms Americans and Israelis take for granted, namely, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, gay rights and women’s rights. All these are blocked by the Palestinian Authority.Non-Muslims regularly face discrimination and Christians have been driven out of Gaza by Hamas (see above).Journalists are not allowed to report freely and critics of the leadership are harassed, jailed or prevented from reporting. In a December 2010 poll, only 27 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and 19 percent in Gaza said they can criticize officials without fear.⁴ Gays are not tolerated and many have fled to Israel for sanctuary. Women are routinely discriminated against and honor killings are still practiced.Since it took charge, the Palestinian Authority places no restrictions on reporters:A case study of the Palestinian Authority’s idea of freedom of the press occurred following the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States. An Associated Press cameraman filmed Palestinians at a rally in Nablus celebrating the terror attacks and was subsequently summoned to a Palestinian Authority security office and told that the material must not be aired.Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat’s Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority “cannot guarantee the life” of the cameraman if the footage was broadcast.⁵ The cameraman requested that the material not be aired and, Associated Press never released the footage.More than a week later, the Palestinian Authority returned a videotape it confiscated from the Associated Press showing a Palestinian rally in the Gaza Strip in which some demonstrators carried posters supporting Osama bin Laden. Two separate parts of the six-minute tape involving “key elements“” were erased by the Palestinians, according to an Associated Press official.⁶In October 2001, after the United States launched attacks against Afghanistan, Palestinians supporting Osama bin Laden staged rallies in theGaza Strip that were ruthlessly suppressed by Palestinian police. The PA took measures to prevent any media coverage of the rallies or the subsequent riots. The Paris-based Reporters Without Frontiers issued ascathing protest to the PA and also objected to Palestinian orders not to broadcast calls for general strikes, nationalistic activities, demonstrations or other news without permission from the PA. The aim of the press blackout was expressed by an anonymous Palestinian official, “We don’t want anything which could undermine our image.”⁷In August 2002, the Palestinian journalists’ union banned journalists from photographing Palestinian children carrying weapons or taking part in activities by terrorist organizations because the pictures were hurting the Palestinians’ image. The ban came after numerous photographs were published showing children carrying weapons and dressing up like suicide bombers. Another group, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, issued a similar ban that included photographing masked men. The Foreign Press Association expressed “deep concern” over the effort to censor coverage, and the threats of sanctions against journalists who disregarded the ban.⁸In July 2004, as Gaza became increasingly unstable, and protests were being mounted against corruption in the Palestinian Authority and the leadership of Arafat, Palestinian journalists covering the crisis received death threats.⁹ Numerous incidents have also been reported of physical attacks on journalists who offended PA officials. A reporter for a Saudi-owned news channel was wounded by gunfire when he was driving through the Gaza Strip. He was then dragged from his car and beaten because his station had allowed criticism of Yasser Arafat and other officials. A week later, 100 Palestinian journalists went to Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah to pledge allegiance to him.¹⁰The Palestinian Authority and Hamas were accused of systematically abusing Palestinian journalists in a Human Rights Watch report released April 6, 2011. The report documents cases of torture, beatings and arbitrary detainment of journalists by security forces and says that “severe harassment by Palestinian Authority and Hamas security forces targeting Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza has had a pronounced chilling effect on freedom of expression.”For example, Hamas security forces detained an Al Quds radio reporter and attacked him “in a morgue where he had reported on a man,supposedly killed by Israeli military attack, who was discovered still tobe alive.”¹¹The Center for Development and Media Freedoms, a Palestinian rights group, said that the number of attacks by Palestinians on journalists, arrests and confiscations of equipment rose by 45 percent in 2010.¹²In June 2011, the Palestinian Authority banned Palestinian journalists from reporting about the findings of the Ramallah-based Independent Commission for Human Rights concerning abuse of human rights by the PA and Hamas. “Assaults on journalists and censorship and restrictions on freedom of expression are still a dreadful nightmare for the journalists,” said Palestinian reporter Mustafa Ibrahim. “Journalists avoid covering events out of fear of being targeted or arrested by [Palestinian] security forces in the West Bank.”¹³———¹ Aaron Klein, “Official PA site publishes ‘Protocols’ in Arabic,” WorldNetDaily, (May21, 2005).² Khaled Abu Toameh, “Gaza’s Christians fear for their lives,” Jerusalem Post, (June 18, 2007); “Catholic compound ransacked in Gaza,” Associated Press, (June 19, 2007)³ Aaron Klein, “‘Christians must accept Islamic rule,’” WorldNetDaily, (June 19, 2007); Daniel Schwammenthal, “The Forgotten Palestinian Refugees,” Wall Street Journal (December 28, 2009).⁴ Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, December 16–18, 2010; see also“Palestinian Public Opinion Poll #38.”⁵ Associated Press, (September 12, 2001).⁶ Jewish Telegraphic Agency, (September 18, 2001).⁷ Jerusalem Post, (October 10, 2001).⁸ Jerusalem Post, (August 26, 2002).⁹ Jerusalem Post, (July 25, 2004).¹⁰ Jerusalem Post, (January 12 & 14, 2004).¹¹ “West Bank/Gaza: Stop Harassing Journalists,” Human Rights Watch, (April 6, 2011).¹² Lahav Harkov, “PA, Hamas systematically abuse Palestinian journalists,” Jerusalem Post, (April 6, 2011).¹³ Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA bans journalists from reporting human rights abuses,” Jerusalem Post, (June 8, 2011).

The objective of any war is not in any way to kill or annihilate the enemy. The goal of every Commander in the theater of operations is to take away from the enemy the will to continue fighting.As a result the war has rules ~ for the military of both sides ~ that must be respected. These provisions are inserted in the Hague Convention as well as in the Geneva Conventions.The laws of war are a set of provisions contained in military law relating to acceptable justifications for participating in a war (ius ad bellum) and acceptable limits for conduct during war (ius in bello or International Humanitarian Law) . The law of war is considered an aspect of Public International Law (the laws of nations), and is distinguished from other bodies of law, such as the domestic law of a belligerent country, particularly in a conflict, which can also provide legal limits to the conduct or justification of war.Among other issues, the modern laws of war contemplate declarations of war, the acceptance of military surrender and the treatment of prisoners of war, military necessity, together with the distinction and proportionality, and the prohibition of certain weapons, which they can cause unnecessary suffering.Attempts to define and regulate the conduct of individuals, nations, and other agents in war and to mitigate the terrible effects of war have a long history. The first known cases are found in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). For example, Deuteronomy 20: 19-20 limits the acceptable amount of collateral damage and environmental damage:“19 When you sit in a city, fighting against it for many days to take it, you will not destroy its trees by putting an ax in them, because you can eat them ; and you shall not cut them down, because the tree of the field is not man to come against you in the place. 20 But the tree that you know does not bear fruit, you can destroy it and cut it down, to build a bulwark against the city that makes you war, until you subdue it.”Similarly, Deuteronomy 21: 10-14 requires that captive women who were forced to marry the victors of a war could not be sold as slaves.In the seventh century, the first Caliph, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, while instructing his Muslim army, establishes the following norms relating to war:“Stop, oh people, so I can give you ten rules for your orientation on the battlefield. Do not commit treason or get rid of the right path. You must not mutilate the corpses. Not kill a child, a woman or a middle-aged man. Do not harm the trees or burn them with fire, especially those that are fruitful. Do not kill any flock of the enemy, except those who serve you as food. It is likely that you will cross people who have dedicated their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.”On the other hand, in the Suras of Al-Baqara; Sura 2.190, Surah 2.191, Sura 2.192 and Sura 2.193 of the Qur'an require that, in combat, Muslims are only allowed to strike back in self-defense against those who act against them, but, on the contrary, once that the enemies stop its offensive, Muslims are ordered to stop the killing.In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church also began to promulgate the teachings of the just war, which are reflected, to a certain extent, in movements such as Peace and God's truce. The impulse to restrict the extension of the war, and above all that of protecting the life and property of the non-combatants, continued with Hugo Grotius and his attempts to write the laws of war.Kant denied the legal status of the war, denied that there could be a right of war. According to Kant between States there is only anarchy, nature, but not law, this being an internal characteristic of the States.The modern laws of war derive from two main sources:Legislation through International Treaties (or conventions) - see below the section called "International treaties on the laws of war".Customs. Not all the laws of war derive from or have been incorporated into those treaties that can refer to the importance that customary law still has. (See Clause Martens). This customary international law is established by the general practice of nations, together with its acceptance that such practice is required by law.International humanitarian law consists of treaties (international agreements) that directly affect the laws of war by uniting nations that consent to achieve generalized consent - see below the section called “International treaties on the laws of war” .Opposite of the positive laws of war is the customary law of war, many of which were explored during the Nuremberg Trials. These laws define the permissive rights of the states, as well as the prohibitions in their conduct when dealing with irregular forces of non-signatory countries.I make my reservation here, since I do not agree with the Nührenberg trials, because they were an illegal court that based their sentences on novel laws not known to the victims of that abuse of Justice.The Treaty of Armistice and Regularization of War, signed in the Venezuelan city of Trujillo on November 25 and 26, 1820 between Simón Bolívar, president of the Republic of Colombia and Pablo Morillo, Chief of the Forces of the Kingdom of Spain in Tierra Firme , is the forerunner of International Humanitarian Law.For its part, the Lieber Code, promulgated by the Union during the American Civil War, was fundamental in the development of the laws of land warfare. The historian Geoffrey Best calls the period from 1856 to 1909 the laws of war “the epoch of the highest reputation”.The defining aspect of this period was the establishment, by the states, of a positive legal or legislative basis (ie, in writing), which replaced a regime based primarily on in religion, chivalry and customs. It is during this “modern” era that international conferences became the forum for debate and agreement among states, and “multilateral treaties” served as a positive mechanism for their codification.In addition to the judgments in the Nuremberg Trials according to “The Law of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity” held, under the guidelines of the Nuremberg Principles that, like the treaties of the Hague Convention of 1907, after they were widely accepted by “all civilized nations” for nearly half a century, and were then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties, whether they were signatories to the specific treaty or not.Interpretations of international humanitarian law may change over time and this also affects the laws of war. For example, Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, pointed out in 2001 that, although there is no specific prohibition treaty on the use of depleted uranium in projectiles, there is a scientific debate in progress and she expressed its concern about the effect of the use of projectiles of this type and that it is possible that in the future, there may be a consensus in international legal circles that the use of projectiles of this type violates the general principles of the law applicable to the use of weapons in armed conflicts.This is possible because in the future it may be a consensus opinion that depleted uranium shells violate one or more of the following treaties: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Convention against Genocide; the Convention against Torture; the Geneva Conventions such as Protocol I; the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of the Year 1980; the Convention on Chemical Weapons, and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.Some of the central principles that underlie the laws of war are:Wars must be limited to the attainment of the political objectives that initiated the war (for example, territorial control), and must not include unnecessary destruction.Wars must be brought to an end as quickly as possible.People and property that do not contribute to the war effort must be protected against destruction and unnecessary hardship.To this end, the laws of war are intended to mitigate the hardships of war:Protection of both combatants and non-combatants from unnecessary suffering.Safeguard certain fundamental human rights of people who fall into the hands of the enemy, especially prisoners of war, wounded and sick, and the civilian population.Facilitate the restoration of Peace.In order to achieve the aims indicated above, the laws of war place significant limits on their legal exercise in the legitimate exercise of a belligerent power. In general terms, the laws require that belligerents refrain from using violence that is not reasonably necessary for their military purposes and that the belligerents direct hostilities with respect to the principles of humanity kindness and gentlemanhood.However, because the laws of war are based on consensus and content, the interpretation of these laws is extensive, contested, and constantly evolving.When I lead ~in my youth~ teams of fighters in war, the first thing that I have taught them is that when the foreign enemy surrenders they automatically ceased to be an enemy, and becomes subject to the war rights granted to him by international conventions. The prisoner is the main source of information for those who were his captors. Never a victim of suffering or uncertainty.Captives should be treated well as comrades. They have rights and we should behave towards with consideration because they are also serving their Country, just as we do.The exception is terrorist gangs, which are not subject to international law and are on the ground simply to murder and scare innocent people, or use perfidious means to obstruct the tasks of legal forces. In all the conflicts of the world and in all times there were partisans who, wearing civilian clothes, without identifying themselves as enemies and attacking treason and without warning, abused the patience of the armies in an exhausting attitude. They do not enjoy the rights of the Geneva Convention.In the war of the Falklands, international conventions were fully respected and this confrontation was an example of chivalry in the midst of a terrible war.Those of us who face each other on the ground continue to have fraternal ties and have forged long friendships between the Soldiers of both sides.After all, mutual self-destruction is never a goal in war. Only victory is.If success is achieved by saving lives, we will all be happier when we return home.SOURCES:Buchner, Wojciech (2015). «Immanuel Kant y la idea de ius gentium». Foro, Nueva época 18 (1): 171-178. ISSN 1698-5583. Consultado el 31 de octubre de 2016.1976: Death sentence for mercenaries (source BBC).The Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts ProjectA Brief History Of The Laws Of WarCrimes, Trials and LawsFor the Sake of Warriors: Accepting the Limits of the Law of WarThe Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and free access to a Documentation Database of primary source materials.Trial of Otto Skorzeny and Others, General Military Government Court of the U.S. Zone of Germany, 18 August to 9 September, 1947When the Law of War Becomes Over-lawyered, JURISTInternational Law on the Bombing of Civilians (Gene Dannen).A Brief Primer on International Law, 2007. With cases and commentary. (Nathaniel Burney)What is a war crime? 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The Oxford Dictionary defines discrimination as —The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex[1].This itself proves that discrimination is meted out on grounds of sex and thus every gender is subject to it. Men are no exception.Example 1 :A 19 year old girl had lodged an FIR against her coaching teacher. The girl's mother accused him of raping her daughter.She said that her daughter had returned late afternoon her coaching classes and was dropped at home by her teacher. Her clothes were torn.◆ EFFECTS —The police called up the teacher and began the investigation.The coaching centre owner was arrested by the police.◆ INVESTIGATION —Based on CCTV footages, it was found out that —In the park on Tuesday both the girl and the boy had liquor and pizza after which she fell there out of inebriation. The guy dropped her outside her home on his scooty an hour late than her usual time. So she fabricated rape story to escape her mother's scolding,”said the SHO.As she did not want her family to know about this so she cooked up a rape story. While coming back from the coaching centre on Tuesday the girl hanged out with her Facebook friend in a park but told her mother that she was raped[2].Based on MEDICAL REPORTS —It was found out that she was not raped[3].◆ Results —The police in Ghaziabad have given clean chit to the coaching centre owner[4].The class 12 girl had fabricated a case against him just to escape her mother's ire.The police have recommended the court for expunging the FIR.The court may order for reinvestigation.“We have not lodged a case against the 19-year-old woman and have sent the coaching teacher home after questioning,” he said[5].Therefore, a fake rape case is easy to frame and it is easier to give a clean chit but the discrimination faced by the falsely framed person defies all bounds of expectation.EXAMPLE 2 :Mr Pal came in contact of the woman through a matrimonial website, he said in his complaint. She expressed her desire to marry him, while he clarified to her that the divorce with his wife was under process and he could not accept her proposal immediately, he added.The woman allegedly contacted Mr Pal over the phone and asked him to visit her in Gujarat.She allegedly demanded money from him through her acquaintance in Chandigarh, the police said.Mr Pal approached police inspector Rajneesh Yadav who laid a trap for the woman.The victim agreed to meet the woman in a parking lot of Ambala City on the pretext of giving her a part of the amount she allegedly demanded. When he was giving Rs 1 lakh to her, the police raided and arrested her, the officer said.The police officer said that she was threatening to implicate him in a false rape case if he didn't pay her 13 lakh rupees[6].EXAMPLE 3 :The woman, a resident of Alwar, and the man used to talk on phone. After two months of telephone conversation, they met at a hotel in Vrindavan recently, the official said.After a few days, a person claiming to be her lawyer asked the man to pay Rs 35 lakh or he would implicate him in a fake rape case, the official said, adding the woman has a history of extorting money from men threatening to frame them in such cases.The family had already paid 25 lakh rupees but later on reported to the police who arrested the woman[7].EXAMPLE 4 :This is an interesting case law.Pushkar Navnitlal Shah v. Rakhi Pushkar Shah, AIR 2007 Guj 5:2007 (55) All Ind Cas 505: 2007 (1) Guj LR 859[8]◆ FACTS —Under Section 24 of The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, a wife filed an application for maintenance and litigation expenses. She had sufficient means of her own and therefore not entitled — her husband filed an application under Order XI, Rule 14 for production of documents by her.Trial Court rejected his application.He presented petition under Article 227 of The Constitution of India and argued —The documents were of family business of which she had a share.Those were required to prove that she had considerable share in movable and immovable ancestral property of her parental family including rights in business.The Trial Court should give equal rights to both spouses to consider the sources of income and then decide maintenance.◆ HELD THAT —The court dismissed the petition.Merely because the wife's application for production of documents which were admittedly within the possession of the husband was granted is no reason to grant husband's petition.Therefore,The wife's aplication for production of salary certificate, etc. of the husband was allowed but similar application by him to establish wife's income was refused.This shows how discriminatory are the provisions of Indian laws towards delivering justice to men.EXAMPLE 5 :Under present Indian laws, it is extremely difficult to establish custody rights of a father, over his child.In the third month of marriage, my wife went to her parents' house for Eid and did not return. She then called me to tell me that her parents have put her under house arrest and asked me to pick her up.When I reached there, they threw me out of the house. I moved the court and the court issued a warrant summoning her family and her to the court. But she lied in the court that I used to hit her and that is why she returned to her parents' house,” Ali said.“I have a 3 year old daughter. But in 3 years, I have lived with her for just 1 year. They said that if I give ₹ 20 lakh, I can take my daughter with me. She threatened me that if I don’t, she will not settle the divorce and make my life hell.”Akbar Ali (32)[9]EXAMPLE 6 :Now, I would like to shift towards The Indian Evidence Act, 1872.Section 112[10]:Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy.—The fact that any person was born during the continuance of a valid marriage between his mother and any man, or within two hundred and eighty days after its dissolution, the mother remaining unmarried, shall be conclusive proof that he is the legitimate son of that man, unless it can be shown that the parties to the marriage had no access to each other at any time when he could have been begotten.This section admits that maternity is a positive proof, but paternity is a matter of inference.I feel this is highly discriminatory against paternity rights.In Kamti Devi v. Poshi Ram, AIR 2001 SC 2226[11] —Honourable Supreme Court had held that though a DNA test report is scientifically accurate, it can't escape this section.Even if it is proved that husband and wife were living together but DNA test report says the child does not belong to the husband, the husband is bound to accept the child as his own.Here, the Court is in favour of the security of the child but in doing so, it wrongly discriminates against a man to bear the responsibility of a child, though not his own.EXAMPLE 7 :Section 114A[12]of The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 shifts the burden of proof of rape on the accused. Here, the accused is guilty until proved innocent.Honourable Supreme Court has asserted in State of Punjab v. Gurmit Singh, AIR (1996) 2 SCC 384:1996 SCC(Cri)316 that the testimony of the victim alone is sufficient to convict the accused. Seeking corroboration of her statement is adding insult to injury[13].This presumption places heavy burden on the accused and provides a weapon to the prosecution for blackmailing.Definitely, a number of offenders are acquitted but that does not necessarily imply that innocent men should be defamed.EXAMPLE 8:The Indian Penal Code, 1860 does not recognise the following offences to be gender neutral —Rape under Section 375[14],Outraging modesty under Section 354[15],Sexual harassment under Section 354A[16],Attempt to disrobe under Section 354B[17],Voyeurism under Section 354C[18],Stalking under Section 354D[19],Insult to modesty under Section 509[20].These offences are gender neutral. But even today, there are a lot of minds that refuse to admit that men_too can be raped, harassed, molested, disrobed, stalked, insulted and subjected to voyeurism.EXAMPLE 9:There have been no proper study on statistics of offences against males.Recently, a petition was filed in High Court of Judicature at The High Court Of Judicature at Calcutta, demanding gender neutral laws regarding sexual harassment.The petition has been dismissed owing to lack of proper statistics. It was considered a vague petition, filed for publicity and the lawyer has been fined too[21].EXAMPLE 10:I had collected from various sources previously which I would like to present for perusal —Government of India study in 2007 reveals that —Out of victims of child sexual abuse, 57.2% are males and 42.7% are females[22].Besides, a Delhi based civil society has found out that —16% of adult males are forced to have sex out of which 22% are female perpetrators and 4% are male perpetrators[23].Studies in 2015 —Out of 86,808 married people,64, 534 suicides were done by husbands. (74%)Out of 1, 33, 623 suicides,91, 528 (68%) were males42, 088 were females.Discrimination is a real problem and everyone irrespective of gender faces it, both men and women.One of the most important functions of law is to cater to the person whose right has been infringed.This person includes both men and women and hence laws should protect both.Indian Judiciary is one of the trustworthy institutions in a democratic country like India which has the bulkiest and lengthiest written Constitution in the world.Therefore, as a human being and as an Indian, I earnestly hope that Indian laws widen and include every gender in its ambit.Only then will Justice be established in the truest sense of the term.Thanking Sir Pravasi Meet for the query —Is discrimination against men real? Can you give any example of discrimination against males?Let justice be done, though the heaven should fall!Footnotes[1] discrimination | Definition of discrimination in English by Oxford Dictionaries[2] Ghaziabad: Schoolgirl cooks up rape story to escape mother's ire - Times of India[3] Ghaziabad: Schoolgirl cooks up rape story to escape mother's ire - Times of India[4] Ghaziabad: Schoolgirl cooks up rape story to escape mother's ire - Times of India[5] Ghaziabad police want ‘rape’ case against coaching teacher expunged[6] Woman Allegedly Threatens Punjab Man With Fake Rape Case For Rs 13 Lakh[7] Woman Arrested After Trying To Frame Man In Fake Rape Case[8] Mr. Pushkar Navnitlal Shah vs Mrs. Rakhi Pushkar Shah on 12 September, 2006[9] International Men’s Day: ‘I’m a Man Who Faced Domestic Abuse’[10] Section 112 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872[11] Smt. Kamti Devi & Anr vs Poshi Ram Respondent on 11 May, 2001[12] Section 114A in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872[13] The State Of Punjab vs Gurmit Singh & Ors on 16 January, 1996[14] Section 375 in The Indian Penal Code[15] Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code[16] IPC 354A: Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code[17] IPC 354B: Section 354B of the Indian Penal Code[18] IPC 354C: Section 354C of the Indian Penal Code[19] IPC 354D: Section 354D of the Indian Penal Code[20] Section 509 in The Indian Penal Code[21] Sexual Harassment Of Males & The Third Gender: Calcutta HC Imposes 2 Lakhs Costs For “Vague” PIL Filed For Publicity [Read Order][22] India's law should recognise that men can be raped too[23] India's law should recognise that men can be raped too