Sexual harassment: Assam workplaces lack facilities

Deccan Herald Some disturbing facts await policy makers in Assam — the state that reported the second highest rate of crime against women after Delhi, in 2016” says Deccan Herald in response to a study published by NEN in collaboration with the Department of Women’s Studies, Gauhati University supported by Bread for the World. The study has created…

Fierce Feminist

Outlook Business Women of Worth Monisha Behal’s larger-than-life experiences went hand-in-hand with her impactful social research At the age of 11, a young Monisha Behal was helping army jawans and victims of the Sino-Indian war of 1962, when the citizens of her hometown Tezpur received an evacuation letter. The Chinese invaders were  just 40 miles (about 65 km) away,…

Long Before #MeToo, Assam’s ‘Barefoot Counsellors’ Battled Rural Sexual Violence

The Better India The Better India features a story on NEN’s Gramin Mahila Kendras (Rural Women’s Centre) set up across three districts in Assam—Kamrup (Mirza village), Darrang (Sipajhar village) and Golaghat (Doigrung village) which are actively assisting women suffering violence at home and their communities. In this piece by Journalist Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk , he…

The ‘barefoot counsellors’ of Assam who tackle women’s problems anywhere, anytime

Indian Express ‘From sexual harassment to domestic abuse — Assam’s barefoot counsellors are lending a ear to a gamut of issues faced by women living in small towns and remote villages…’ says Tora Aggarwal in her article. She highlights the support services of our barefoot counsellors towards Domestic Violence survivors and the space that they have been…