Kohima: Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) Chairperson Sano Vamuzo has said unless women know their God gifted and constitutional rights, empowerment was meaningless.
Speaking at the programme on Legal Awareness on the theme ‘Know Your Right’, organized by NSCW and coordinated by Chakhro Women Organisation at Medziphema town hall under Dimapur district yesterday, Ms Vamuzo said, ‘Women have been in bondage for a long time and suffered socially, mentally, physically, economically and emotionally due to ignorance of their own right.’
She called upon the women to keep themselves updated and well informed of their rights effecting them and stressed on the importance of gender equality, which she said had become the new gospel in the present society. ‘If we want our society to develop we need to go back to the grass root level. Our Naga society is passing through tremendous changes and we cannot stop or ignore the changes happening in and around us anymore,’ she said. She urged the village leaders to be concerned, and accommodative in their decision making for the development of the village and encouraged village leaders much depended on their good leadership and to bring effective changes for the betterment of the society. The seminar was chaired by Vinguno Angami General Secretary of Medziphema Town Women Organisation. The Resource persons Lydia Yeptho, Legal Consultant NSCW and Nieba Newmai, Superintendent of Police (Crime) spoke on ‘statutory rights of women’ and ‘role of police in safeguarding women’s rights’ respectively. (UNI)
