Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti

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Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
AbbreviationMASS
Formation1991
TypeNGO
PurposeHuman rights and civil liberties protection, education, and monitoring
HeadquartersUdanashri Building,
Ananda Nagar,
Bamunimoidam,
Guwahati – 781021
Location
Region served
Northeast India
Official language
Assamese, English
Chairman
Ajit Kumar Bhuyan

Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) (Assamese মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি) is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam. The present chairman is Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and its headquarters is at Bamunimoidam, Guwahati.[1][2]

The NGO has been working on protection and promotion of human rights both civil and political, human rights education and mass mobilization, resistance and documentation of human rights violations. It also challenges the alleged human rights violations in Assam by the Indian Army, paramilitary forces and state police.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Mahanta, Nani Gopal (2013). Confronting the state : ULFA's quest for sovereignty. New Delhi: Sage publications. p. 15. ISBN 9788132107040.
  2. ^ "Fact-Finding on Mega Dams in North-East". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (19): 5. 2012. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23214959 – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ Gupta, Asish (2009). "Cold-blooded Murder in Manipur". Economic and Political Weekly. 44 (35): 4–74. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 25663480 – via JSTOR.



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