Legal awareness campaign on violence against women held

IMPHAL, April 28: A legal awareness program on violence against women was organized by the All India Women’s Conference, Manipur State Branch Imphal on April 24 at Laphupat Tera Community Hall at Imphal West – Manipur under the sponsorship of All India Women’s Conference, New Delhi.

Villagers including students, local women activists and youth leaders, aged persons participated in the one day awareness program.

The program was attended by former Minister, H Kangjamba Singh as the Chief guest, H. Subita Devi, Advocate as the Guest of honour and Kh Chandra Singh, Ex-Joint Director (Fishery), as President of the function respectively.

During the program, many resource persons delivered and presented papers on the Legal Protection Act.

K Binapani Devi   President, AIWC, Manipur  emphasized that education is the only means to empower women.

She further appealed to the man to treat woman as their mother and creator of human beings on earth.

“Such forms of violence, killing, rape are very shameful”.