Newsletter
North East India Women Initiative For Peace, Vol 1, No 3, Sept 2010
Volume 1 No 3 Issue September 2010
For more than a century women and women’s organisations and movements have mobilised support for social empowerment, economic justice, democracy, human rights and conflict prevention. Women groups in Northeast India have developed many a powerful programme of direct, non-violent, action designed to confront the fire of insurgency that has for long engulfed this strategic region since the late 1940s. In India’s northeast, women have always played a major role in many peace and social movements. However, most of their actions remain in "protest" form and after the initial action dies down, nothing much happens. We, the women of Northeast India need to make ourselves understand the issues of war, conflict, peace. Only through our joint, continued and persistent efforts peace would one day follow.
We are also delighted to share the successful completion on 7th August 2010 at Bosco Reachout in Guwahati, Assam our second Consultation on Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace. Please log on to http://neiwip.blogspot.com/p/photos.html for the update on this along with pictures and media coverage http://neiwip.blogspot.com/p/media-coverage.html
Our office is also organising a Conference on Armed Forces Special Powers Act to be held on 8 September 2010 at Conference Hall No 1, India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003 from 9 am to 5 pm. For more details, log on to http://neiwip.blogspot.com/p/events.html