Dimapur, October 18 (MExN): NEISSR in collaboration with Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) conducted a Legal Awareness programme at NEISSR Conference Hall on October 16. A press release received here stated that the programme was organized with the objectives of enhancing knowledge about the concepts of human rights and provisions in the constitution, AFSPA and its consequences, and also to help the social work trainees developed a humane approach of ensuring the legal rights of individual and communities.
The programme was animated by Esther K. Aye and Limathung E. Ezung from NSLSA. Speaking on the concepts of Human Rights and its evolution, Limathung spoke on similarities between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy. Citing the uniqueness of the Fundamental Rights guaranteed in the Indian Constitution, he pointed out the similarities between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the fundamental rights.
Esther K. Aye capacitated the social work trainees on the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court for the Armed forces in relation to carrying out the provisions laid down in Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Highlighting the abuse of human rights and the atrocities carried out by the armed forces, she opined that such incidents could have been avoided had the people were to be capacitated. She spoke on the various rights of an arrested person and also shared the means through which an arrested person should claim for his or her rights.
