Current Draft: Draft 1
Ban On Bride Burning
Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Significant
The General Assembly of the World Assembly,
Acknowledging the action of bride burning, where a husband sets on fire and murders his wife after not receiving enough in dowry.
Horrified by the disrespect towards women and expectation of payment shown by people who perform bride burning
Appalled by the way the aforementioned grooms throw around human life.
Defining "bride burning" as the action of a husband setting on fire and mudering his wife after not receiving enough in dowry, as stated above.
Defining "dowry" as payment given by a bride's family to a groom after a marriage is formed.
Requires member states to make bride burning illegal.
Requires member states to punish people who perform bride burning with at least the severity of the way that they punish people accused of murder