See also: Anti-conversion law and Anti-miscegenation laws
Population Control Law
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Long title
The Health Care in the Adjustment of Population Increase Law (28/2015)
Passed by
Thein Sein
Passed
27 April 2015
Enacted
19 May 2015
Status: Current legislation
Religious Conversion Law
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Long title
The Religious Conversion Law (48/2015)
Enacted by
Thein Sein
Enacted
26 August 2015
Status: Current legislation
Interfaith Marriage Law
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Long title
The Myanmar Buddhist Women's Special Marriage Law (50/2015)
Enacted by
Thein Sein
Enacted
26 August 2015
Status: Current legislation
Monogamy Law
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
Long title
The Law Relating to the Monogamous System (54/2015)
Enacted by
Thein Sein
Enacted
31 August 2015
Status: Current legislation
The 2015 Race and Religion Protection Laws are a series of 4 controversial laws passed in Myanmar. The laws were drafted in 2013 and pushed by the Committee for the Protection of Nationality and Religion, or Ma Ba Tha.[1] They include the Population Control Law, the Mongogamy Law, the Religious Conversion Law, the Interfaith Marriage Law (also called the Special Marriage Law).[2]
^"Burma: Drop Draft Religion Law". Human Rights Watch. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
^"Burma: Four "Race and Religion Protection Laws" Adopted". Library of Congress. 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
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