Arranged Marriage Should Be Banned Speech

Good Morning Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen. As the second speaker from the affirmative team, I will also be arguing about why arranged marriage should be banned. The points I will be discussing today all revolve around the concept of arranged marriage violating human rights. However, allow me to firstly rebut the points stated by the first speaker of the opposing team. The first speaker stated that arranged marriage are more successful, and divorce wise this statement is true. For example the divorce rate of India is 1.1%. However, this statistic shows the percentage of people legally married and divorced, not how many people are happily married and are in a healthy relationship. The statistic doesn’t show the people who are getting abused
Therefore, they might find themselves agreeing to a relationship they strongly don’t want to be in. Parent’s opinions should be considered before marrying your lover, however, they do not have the right to guilt trip or threaten you into accepting their marriage arrangements. They may guilt trip you by telling you how selfish you are for refusing to uphold your family’s culture, by saying how you are a disgrace and how you have brought shame upon your family. They may threaten to take away your college fund, or even worse threaten to disown, kill or torture you, if you refuse to accept the marriage they have arranged. This clearly violates multiple rights stated in the UDHR, including the one on article 5 which explains that nobody has the right to hurt anyone in any way, and the right on article 19 which states that everyone is free to say and believe in what they
In countries mentioned, after a couple has successfully gotten arranged marriage, the male is automatically the dominant figure and has power over not only the decisions he makes, however also the decisions his whole family makes. Therefore, the bride and the children may be forced into participating in activities they do not want to or practice religions they strongly don’t believe in. This situation also violates two other human rights, including the right on article 16, which states that men and female have the same rights and power once married, and the right on article 18 which states that everyone has the right to believe in what they want to believe and choose a religion based on their preference.

The rights declared by the universal declaration of human rights were created, to ensure that all humans are treated equally throughout the world. Therefore, the fact that arranged marriage violates multiple human rights established clearly explains why arranged married should be banned, since it prevents humans from living a content and enjoyable life. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, this debate should surely fall in the favour of the affirmative team, since banning arranged marriage would allow us to be one step closer to ensuring that every human is being entitled to their natural