MAHILA ADHIKAR SIKSHYA SIBIRA
(MASS)
District Level Sensitization Program on Women Rights
Human Rights Front [HRF] and
Odisha State Commission for Women jointly organized one day district level sensitization program
on women rights titled as Mahila Adhikar Sikshya Sibira[MASS] on 30
th
June 2012 at Hotel Royal Kalinga, Vyasanagar,Jajpur,Odisha.
The program started with an
inaugural lecture followed by open discussion. The guest speakers were,
Chairperson, Odisha State Commission for Women Dr Jyoti Panigrahi and Member
Mrs Sunanda Pati, Dr Dipak Kumar, Superintendent of Police, Jajpur, District
Social Welfare Officer Mrs Snehanjali
Pattnaik, Vyasanagar Municipality chairperson Mrs.Bandita Parida and Dr
Lalita Rout, Prinicipal, Indira
Gandhi Womens
College. The meeting was presided
by Mr Manoj Jena, Chairperson, Human Rights Front.
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| Dr Jyoti Panigrahi, Chairperson,SWC |
The violence against women is
increasing day by day in Odisha, the administration and judicial system fails
to provide due justice to the tortured victims said Dr Panigrahi. She further
stressed the justice delivery institutions should function proactive while
dealing with such sensational cases. When women are already projected their
leadership in various Panchayatiraj institutions after getting fifty percentage
of reservation then why the same reservation status will not be provided in assembly
and parliament she lamented .
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| Dr Dipak Kumar, SP |
Women education and sensitization,
proper implementation of poverty alleviation programmes, economy independence
etc. are the key factors for materializing women rights said Dr Dipak Kumar.
Trafficking and Sexual Abuses are the heinous crime against women that the
society should introspect while becoming a developed State he stressed. He also
made the participants understand about various laws related to women rights
like reproductive rights, domestic violence act, dowery prohibition act, property rights, SC & ST atrocity act etc.
that safeguarding the rights of women.
In the beginning Mr Manoj Jena
briefed about the objectives of such kinds of sibira and said ten districts
will be covered under this pilot project. The main motto is to access the
various human rights institutions like women commission to the underprivileged
people of the rural and backward areas so that they can avail justice easily
which will help to minimize the violence against women as well as aware about
their basic rights.
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| Mrs Majulata Deo is being felicitating |
On this occasion few women
leaders and advocate of women cause were felicitated by the guests. More than
three hundreds women leaders of different categories of all ten blocks and two
municipalities of the districts were participated in the program. The program was
coordinated by key leaders of both Jajpur Ekta Manch and Human Rights Front like
Mr Akshya Jena, Mrs Surekha Malik, Mr. Gayadhar Malik, Mr Rabindra Rout and Mr
Sandip Mohanty.
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Mr Kandi is leading the dalit human
rights movements in the adjacent blocks of Konark, he often takes the atrocity
cases to various human rights bodies, during the NHRC open public hearing at
Puri in last April, he filed many atrocity cases with victims at the camp and incase of Pipili gang rape victim’s case he organized many rallies and protest in
different parts of the district which was perhaps intolerable for Puri police
subsequently the local Police Inspector Incharge of Konark PS Mr. Prakash Rath threatened
him for any dire consequences.
