Dimapur, February 16 (MExN): The Women Development Cell of Sakus Mission College organized and conducted an awareness programme on ‘gender violence, safety and working of Police System’ on February 5. It was held with the aim to sensitize and raise the awareness of the students towards various types of gender violence occurring in our society and their legal rights and laws in the current atmosphere of increasing violence against women.
Bem Thomsong, Officer-In-Charge Women Cell Dimapur as resource person while delivering the presentation highlighted that female foeticide and infanticide through illegal sex determination tests was the first level of discrimination against women.
She further went on to discuss various forms of gender violence such as rape, molestation, eve teasing, domestic violence sexual exploitation, assault and provisions for legal remedies. She also informed the working system of police and its women cell unit for women safety, and provided the basic ideas/formalities to be followed while lodging an F.I.R. She also informed that every woman was entitled to a legal counsel free of cost in case of any litigation.
The students actively participated and interacted with the speaker to query, clarify and under various stand the legal position on various issues that concerned them. About 200 students and all faculty members attended the programme.
The programme started with invocation by Amen Asst. Prof of Education Department followed by welcome speech by Pranati Das, convener of the Women Development Cell. Akala Asst Prof of History Department conducted the programme while vote of thanks was given by T. Gangte Asst Prof of History Department.
Meanwhile, to improve students’ attitude towards violence against women and give them greater confidence to intervene or speak out against it and to enlist men as partners against gender-based violence, Women Development Cell members encouraged the students to write quotations on women’s equal right and against gender violence and launched an awareness campaign to “Stop Gender Violence and make a better world.” The students went on rally from college campus to DC Court junction displaying banner and placards on February 12 under the initiative of Pranati Das, Asst Prof of Political Science Dept and Tiasen Asst Prof of English Dept and other Women Cell members.
About 250 students and all faculty members attended the awareness campaign.
