{"id":331125,"date":"2017-12-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/5796-voluntary-organisations-appeal-to-government"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:30:00","slug":"voluntary-organisations-appeal-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/12\/12\/voluntary-organisations-appeal-to-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary organisations appeal to government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Dec 12<\/p>\n<p>Women voluntary organisations today filed a recommendation to the chief minister and governor of the state that the maintenance support given to children, be extended so that it will cover 18 to 25 years of age, saying 18 years is too tender to support oneself.<\/p>\n<p>The organisations which filed the recommendation are Women Action for Development (WAD), Rongmei Lu Phuam (RLP), All Tribal Women Organisation (ATWO) and Our Rest House (ORH).<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation also demanded establishment of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in the state so that the forensic test results process could be faster instead of sending the reports to Kolkata and Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>The CVOs with the recommendation urged to speed up court hearings and not to postpone trial dates further. It also demanded to repeal AFSPA from the state and to release the forensic reports sent to different parts of India. They urged state legal authorities to organise awareness programmes on legal procedures so that any common man have the basic idea to go through legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation was filed today at the get together programme of domestic violence victims in relation with International Fortnight Observation protesting Violence against Women. It was held at Youth Hostel, Khuman Lampak and organised by WAD and Youth Forum for Protection of Human Rights (YFPHR).<\/p>\n<p>Around 20 women shared their testimonies of violence which included domestic violence, fake encounters, physical violence, rape, sexual harassment and so on. Many complained of slow legal procedures in court trials and expressed their desires to hasten the process.<\/p>\n<p>One victim of domestic violence, Thoinu (name changed) narrated how her then husband mistreated her after having an extra marital affair. She said that her in-laws even mistreated her along with her husband, who is a government employee in electricity department and also said that her husband used to come home drunk at night and beat her and assaulted her for no big reason.<\/p>\n<p>WAD has been observing the International Fortnight Observation protesting the violence against women since 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/5796-voluntary-organisations-appeal-to-government\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/5796-voluntary-organisations-appeal-to-government<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By A Staff Reporter<br \/>\nIMPHAL | Dec 12<br \/>\nWomen voluntary organisations today filed a recommendation to the chief minister and governor of the state that the maintenance support given to children, be extended so that it will cover 18 to 25 years of age, sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-331125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331126,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331125\/revisions\/331126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}