Taslima Nasreen bats for uniform civil code

March 18, 2016 15:48

Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has batted for adopting a uniform civil code based on equality, asserting that it was imperative to do away with religious laws in order to achieve gender parity.

She also said that a country created on the basis of religion is likely to become a fundamentalist country and that "religion is not compatible with democracy and human rights", while adding that the Bangladesh Liberation War had proved that two-nation theory was "wrong".

The 53-year-old author, who has written extensively on oppression of women, said that both Hindu and Muslim women were being discriminated against due to archaic religious laws.

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