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Irom Sharmila campaign moves on
The Telegraph | Imphal, Oct. 29:
The India chapter of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom will take up Manipur’s rights crusader Irom Sharmila’s issue and build international pressure on New Delhi so that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 is repealed.
“We will tell the international community about the injustice being done to Sharmila and people living under this act in India by the government and build international opinion on the issue of the army act,” Ila Pathak, vice-president of the international women’s body, said here today.
Pathak came here as a part of the 25-member team that marched from Srinagar to Imphal from October 16 to 27 to express solidarity with Sharmila and those campaigning for repealing the act.
This international body is close to the United Nations and has the status of a consultant of the UN.
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