State Commission for Women hosts seminar on legal awareness

BUDGAM, NOVEMBER 11:  A day-long seminar on legal awareness was held here   on Saturday.

The programme was a jointly organized  by  National Commission for Women  and J&K’s State Commission for Women. Around 200 women   including college going students, Asha workers, Self Help groups and representatives from NGOs and other fields participated.

Resource persons Dr Shazia, Assistant Professor Women’s Studies Centre, Kashmir University, Muslim Jan from MERC department Kashmir University, Subaya Yasmeen, Reader in JK High Court and Advocate Mohammad Altaf Khan spoke on different state and central laws including, Domestic Violence Act and Muslim Law to create awareness about the women legal rights .

Deputy Commissioner Budgam, Mohammad Haroon Malik   said that every citizen of the society has duty to contribute in curbing the domestic violence in the society.

  Chairperson, J&K State Commission for Women, Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor said that such events are aimed at creating mass awareness among the womenfolk about their rights in the society.

Nayeema said that similar programmes would be conducted in all the 22 districts of the State to ensure the rights of the women are safeguarded.

“The Commission  plans to organize such progammes in every nook and corner of the State for mass awareness among women about their rights and the laws protecting them against domestic violence or any other crime,” she said.

She urged participants to work for the betterment of womenfolk.

She also informed that Women Commission would conduct police sanitization programs in the state to ensure every woman feels free to register her complaint with the police about domestic violence.