More than 100 NGOs in Assam have appealed to political parties to include issues ranging from trafficking and witch-hunting to sexual assault, rape and limited women’s participation in the workforce, besides measures to achieve empowerment for women, in their manifestos for the Assembly elections this year.
The North East Network (NEN), an NGO, in collaboration with Barak Human Rights Protection Committee, North East Social Trust, The Ant, Matribhumi Block Mahasangha and Archana Sharma, a professor in Gauhati University, has prepared The Women’s Manifesto on equality and social justice.
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