Research and Newspaper Articles written by Ms Binalakshmi Nepram
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- In Lush Manipur, Women Work for Peace as Militarization Marches On
Manipur, a state of exceptional beauty in a little-known corner of northeastern India, was an independent region until 1949 when, in a controversial move, it was merged into the Indian union....
- Letter to Anna Politskovaya
RAW in WAR (Reach All Women in WAR), an international human rights NGO, commemorates Politkovskaya’s work every year, presenting awards to leading women human rights defenders from across the world....
- Manufacturing citizenship : The ongoing movement against Citizenship Amendment Bill in North East India
History show us that in 1500s, an estimated10 million plus indigenous people lived on land now known as current United States of America. In the year 1830, the federal Indian Removal Act was passed that forced thousands of indigenous people out of their homeland....
- Indigenous Women of Northeast India at the Forefront of a Strong Non-Violent Peace Movement
Indigenous women around the world have been at the forefront of a strong non-violent peace, security and disarmament movement. Over the last 200 years or so, women of Northeast India have been leaders in non-violent peace movements....
- Manufacturing Citizenship : The Ongoing Movement Against Citizenship Amendment Bill in Northeast India
History show us that in the 1500s, an estimated 10 million plus Indigenous people lived on land now known as the United States of America (US). In 1830, the US passed the Federal Indian Removal Act, which forced thousands of Indigenous people out of their homelands....
- India and the Arms Trade Treaty
The international arms trade is out of control. A thousand people die every day because of armed violence, and many more are seriously injured. Many of the victims are women and children. In India alone, 12 people die from armed violence every day....
- Manipur's endless violence: Thousands dead in 60-year-old crisis
The tragic death of eighteen army personnel on Thursday in a militant attack has once again brought forth the attention of the nation and the world to the northeast state of Manipur, home to over 2.2 million people and located on the Indo-Myanmar border....
- Roots of Manipur insurgency
The tragic death of 18 security forces personnel in an ambush in the Chandel District of Manipur on 4th June has once again jolted the people and policymakers of India to the fragile situation in the state.....
- Taking Strength from the Past in Securing India’s Future
Peace, disarmament and development were the pillars of India’s foreign policy since independence in 1947. As early as 1959, India called attention of the United Nations to the existence of large armaments and their unchecked growth which, besides being a threat to international peace and security.......
- Paying Homage to Women's Roles in Peace and Disarmament
Our world is hovering at the edge of an abyss, driven there by man's unreason. One crisis is cresting on top of another... The sinister developments in the advance towards the brink of disaster all interact, worsened by the calamitous threat - namely the arms race and militarization....
- The shadow of the gun
I dedicate this article to the more than 5000 women who have lost their lives or been wounded by gun violence in my home-state of Manipur in Northeast India....
- Northeast India Matters: The need to know and understand
I came across this quote a few summers back in the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. The words came back to me as I started penning my thoughts for my maiden article for IBNLive.......
- Northeast India Matters: weaving our collective histories
For more than 63 years in the history of the independent Republic of India, the history/histories of 45 million of its citizens living in 8 states of the northeast region of the country have been absent from our school, college and university text books.......
- Armed Conflict, Small Arms Proliferation and Women's Responses, Heidelberg Papers, Germany
This occasional paper series is run by the Department of Political Science of the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg......
