Armed Conflict and Violations of Women�s Human Rights in North East India: Some Observations

Abstract

Human Rights are people's own rights that belong to every person with whom people can live their own way of life with harmony and dignity. But in every society woman's are the victims of human rights violations and India's North East is no exception from it. However, in comparison to other parts of the country the women of North East India enjoy greater mobility and relatively much liberal and almost free from social evils like dowry, female feticide, and infanticide. But in the region in case of armed conflictual situations, the conditions of women are more in danger than rest of the country. There were many instances where women were brutally murdered, raped by the member of military forces and abused both mentally and physically. Since the implementation of Armed Forces Special Power Act of 1958, the region has witnessed many conflictual situations where armed forces misuse their power and violate women's human rights. Still, there are many women civil organizations who strongly speaks against the Act and raised their voice against the misuse of military power. Hence, an attempt has been made in this paper to discuss how women's human rights are violated by AFSPA, how women's are suffering during the armed conflict in North-East India.