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 Volume I Issue III  February 2000

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Manipur Update
February Issue
Volume I Issue III, February 2000
Manipur Update is the monthly newsletter of Human Rights Alert. Human Rights Alert is a non-governmental, voluntary organization of individuals committed to the cause of human rights. Its members are drawn from human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, academics, health workers and community workers of Manipur.
Manipur Update
Volume I Issue III 
February 2000
Weeping mother
 
In February Issue

 

 

 

 

 

 

In response to the Amnesty International campaign for Sanamacha, his parents in Manipur state received thousands of letters and greetings from concerned people across the world. 
Manipur Update
Volume I Issue II   January 2000
Cover Photo of January issue
 
  
In January Issue
Women in Armed Conflict
 
      Arrest  of the women by male security personnel, interrogation in army camps and police stations, torture and sexual abuse (including rape) by male security personnel in custody has become routine. 
 

 

featuring Women's Rights
  
In January Issue
The Manipuri Women

      In 1904, when the British Political Agent ordered all adult males of Imphal to rebuild his bungalow which was burnt down by some unidentified persons, the market women mounted a protest against the imposition. Later, the government had to withdraw its order. The uprising is known as the first Nupilal (Women's War).

 
Previous Issue was focused on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958
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Inaugural Issue   December 1999

The current Issue of February 2000 is focused on the Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances

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