MPHAL, November 30: As part of the ongoing 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence campaign from November 25, 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 today.
The awareness programme was held with the main objectives of making the students aware on the increasing crime against women and girls and how to prevent and protect themselves from becoming a victim and sensitizing the students on what are the preventive mechanisms and legal procedure on gender based violence, cyber crime and domestic violence etc.
Vice-principal of Ibotonsana Girls Higher Secondary School Hemolata; secretary of Women Action for Development Sobita Mangsatabam and an Innovator of Our rest House Jina khumukcham graced the occasion as presidium members.
Jina Khumukcham shared her experience of domestic violence during her early life and the present experience of how she became an innovator.
She elaborated the role of the youths 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 laws related to women and children, the issues of cyber crime and its preventive mechanism.
Sobita Mangsatabam deliberated on the gender based violence and the present trend of cyber crime against women and the declination of sex ratio in Manipur.
Altogether 250 students, teaching and no teaching staff participated in the programme. There was an interaction between the students and resource person during which 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 put up by the students.