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We are living in 21st century and have progressed in many areas over the last decade but people still discriminate each other on the basis of religion, caste, race and gender. This can be especially seen for LGBTQ+ community, how people even deny to accept their existence and tell it's a mere case of mental illness which can be cured or say it's just western ideas. People have even resorted to hate crimes against the community.  LGBTQ acceptance still has a long way to go but t he good news is LGBTQ+ acceptance is increasing around the world slowly but surely.  If we talk about India, on  6th September 2018  the Supreme Court of India in the case of  NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR V. UOI   decriminalized homosexuality . However as of now,  India does not recognize same sex marriage , but provides some limited legal recognition to cohabiting same-sex couples in the form of legal relationships. There are a lot of problems faced by same sex couples today such as open...

India is a country of many diversities and that is indee d our strength, but you can't use them to justify injustices. How does diversity explain a man taking multiple wives? How does it explain a woman being denied ancestral wealth, or child marriages? The point is beliefs and customs should not violate your rights, no matter which religion you belong to. The hope is UCC can remedy that. But firstly, what is Uniform Civil Code?  The uniform civil code which comes under article 44 of the Indian constitution, proposes to introduce personal laws that would apply to all citizens equally. irrespective of people's gender, caste, religion, etc. Let's take criminal laws for example, if a person in India commits a crime, criminal laws apply the same to all different communities irrespective of their religion, caste, gender. But, India's personal laws like marriage, inheritance, succession, adoption apply differently to every religion.  Let's take a few examples; SECTION49...