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Don't criticise women policy without reading people

Adviser Rasheda asks

Staff Correspondent
Women and Children Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Choudhury yesterday asked people not to criticise the newly adopted National Women Development Policy without reading it first, saying that the policy does not include anything against the Quran andtheHadith.
"Some quarters, without going through die policy, thought that it contains something contrary to Allah's law," she said referring to recent rumours diat the policy contain? statement on inheritance law that opposes Islam.
Like the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), it is only a strategy to work out measures for women development, Rasheda Choudhury said adding that the council of advisers has formulated
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the policy knowing it fully well.
She was talking to reporters at her office in the Secretariat.
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed on Saturday formally unveiled National Women Development Policy 2008 that suggested setting aside one-third of parliamentary seats for women and arranging direct elections to the reserved seats.
Mentioning the law adviser's Tuesday's statement that the caretaker government has not passed any law regarding inheritance, she regretted that the women development policy has been misinterpreted.
"The reason for such hue and cry is not clear to me because the policy does not say anything about inheritance law, it only indicates property earned by women," she said referring to a clause of the policy that suggests enacting new law to ensure equal opportunity and control on all earned movable and immovable properties.
Unlike the previous two women development policies of 1997 and 2004, the new policy is aligned with the PRSP and the Millennium Development Goals, the adviser said pointing out some progressive features including five-month maternal leave and steps to help the disabled women and stop exploitation of women in labour market.
"The policy has some progressive matters. It contains some short-term and long-term policies for women's rights."
The caretaker government will implement the short-term policies while the long-term ones will depend on the elected government, Rasheda Choudhury said.
Saying that the caretaker government is not enacting any law, she said mechanism will be strengthened to monitor enforcement of the existing laws passed to ensure women rights.