North East Network is a woman’s organisation working on rights issues in India’s strife torn north-east. Ever since its inception, our goal has been to empower women of northeast around issues of peace, livelihood, and reproductive health. The goal is to ensure fundamental change in the region’s development perspectives from needs to rights.
We, at NEN, believe rights to be inclusive and deeply entwined with equality and gender justice. It has been our constant endeavour to engender the human rights discourse in the region, to raise issues of reproductive health rights and violence against women and to encourage women to participate in the peace process and other development interventions as agents.
Through a two-pronged strategy of grassroots intervention and policy level advocacy, we have been engaging in issues ranging from Health and Gender to Peace and Natural Resource Management, all from a rights perspective. NEN recognizes the potential and right of every individual as crucial, and our work is about touching individual lives to bring about a collective change in society.
