Date: 29 December Original Story: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=dec3012/city05 STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI, Dec 29 – Social activists as well as conscientious citizens have condoled the death of the young woman after her brutal assault on a bus in New Delhi and have asked for an urgent overhaul of existing laws and procedures across the country to protect women in public…
Campaign to stop violence against women STAFF REPORTER GUWAHATI, Nov 30 – North East Network, a women’s human rights organization working in the States of Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland has launched ‘16 days of activism’ – an international campaign to stop violence against women in Assam which would continue till December 10. This fortnight encompasses…
Date: 30 November Original Story: Street survey on violence against women in the city Post Bureau, Guwahati (Nov 29): Women facing abuse in Guwahati can now make their voices heard. Keeping in tune with the International Campaign to Stop Violence against Women, the North East Network (NEN) will be conducting a street survey on violence against women…
Naga women can show the way morungexpress on October 25, 2012 03:52:00 In a wonderful gesture of solidarity among Naga women and also showing howdifferent tribes can live in unity despite the diversity of our tribal identity,the first ever multi-community Millets Food Festival of Nagaland was organizedin far away Chizami. The Morung Express was there…
This is an account of a visit that some of us made to the districts of Dhubri, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar to observe the situation in relief camps in August 2012. Personally, several thoughts cross my mind when it comes to the traumatic situation of the camp inmates, the violence in every corner of Assam, the…
Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 3 – How safe are the city’s roads and lanes for girls and women? A spate of recent incidents would indicate that many women, pedestrians in particular, are increasingly at the mercy of anti-social elements.A few days ago as two young women were walking in the Uzan Bazar area, a bike…
Staff reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 1 – Official records now indicate that Assam is emerging as a State in which crime rates are shooting up. Violent crimes are on the rise along with a sharp climb in crime against women, trends which were not so evident till a few years back. India’s rate of violent crimes…
SANJAY BARBORA Political mobilisation along ethnic lines has played a dominant role in reinforcing group differences in Assam, with blatant disregard for the present realities of its demography For the people of Assam, the last few weeks have brought misery upon misery. No sooner had they begun to recover from the floods, than came the…
By Sushanta Talukdar in Guwahati In an incident that put India to shame, on the night of July 9, a group of men pulled out a 20-year-old girl from an autorickshaw she was trying to get into to return home after coming out of a bar on the busy Guwahati-Shillong road close to the Dispur…
Post Bureau, Guwahati (July 25): Expressing concern over the communal riots at BTAD for the last five days, Action Aid, an international NGO, organised a citizen’s meeting in the city on Wednesday. A part from the concerned citizens, various organisations like Mising Mimang Kebang (MMK), Pragotisil Nari Sanstha, North East Network (NEN) and others had…