Awareness programme on crime against women held Ibotonsana Girls Higher Secondary School
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 30 2015:
As a part of 16 Days of activism Against Gender based violence campaign from November 25 to December 10 an awareness programme on Gender, Human rights, violence Against Women and cyber crime was held during the NSS camp at Ibotonsana Girls Higher Secondary School organised by Women Action Development (WAD) on Monday.
Ibotonsana Girls Higher Secondary School, Vice Principal Hemolata; WAD Secretary Sobita Mangsatabam and Jina khumukcham an Innovator of Our rest House attended as presidium members.
The objectives organising the programme are to make the students aware on the increasing Crime Against Women and Girls and how to prevent and protect themselves from becoming a victim and to sensitized the students on what are the preventive mechanisms and legal procedure on gender based violence, cyber crime and domestic violence etc.
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Jina khumukcham an innovator shared her experience of domestic violence during her early life and the present experience of how she became an innovator and she also shared the role of the youth in preventing crime against women and advised the students to use their leisure time by producing small handmade home based products.
Laimayum Sevananda, advocate Human Rights law Network spoke on the topic on laws related with women and children, the issues of cyber crime and its preventive mechanism.
While Sobita Mangsatabam shared her experience on the Gender based Violence and the present trains of cyber crime Against women and the declination of sex ratio in Manipur.
Over 250 students, teaching and no teaching staff participated in the programme.
There was an interaction between the students and resource persons.
Many questions came up such as the problem faced by the students while travelling, eve- teasing, stalking, discrimination against women in the family and community.
Five cases of Domestic Violence were come up from the students.