Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) (
Assamese
Assamese may refer to:
* Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India
* People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam
* Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...
মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি) is a regional non-profit human rights
NGO in
Assam. It was founded in 1991 by
Parag Kumar Das
Parag Kumar Das ( Assamese পৰাগ কুমাৰ দাস) was the former editor of Asomiya Pratidin, a radical journalist, human right activist and one of the founders of human rights movement in Assam.
Parag Kumar Das was also the fou ...
along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam. The present chairman is Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and its headquarters is at Bamunimoidam,
Guwahati.
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.
See also
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Asom Sena
Asom Sena ( Assamese অসম সেনা, English the soldiers of Assam) is a youth wing of All Assam Students Union in Assam. It was formed in Barpeta on December 8, 2005 with the Shiv Sena as its role model for the cause of social justice and ...
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List of human rights organisations
External links
MASS
References
Human rights organisations based in India
Organisations based in Assam
1991 establishments in Assam
Organizations established in 1991
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