Shillong (Meghalaya), Dec 17 : Women’s College shillong a premier girls college of the City as well as Women’s College Higher Secondary in collaboration with the State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW), Social Welfare Department, Meghalaya, organised a two day Orientation Programme on Dec 15 and Dec 16 on the theme “Gender Based Violence and its Prevention” to commemorate the 16 days UN Activism from 25th November to 10th December on Gender Based Violence for the students and the teachers of the institute.
Both the days the resource persons, from women’s commission Ms. Theilin Phanbuh,Chairperson state Women’s Commission Meghalaya, representatives from the Meghalaya police department, Smt. Supriya Das, IPS, SDPO, Sardar Police Station and B. Jyrwa, MPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Advocate, Suparna Shyam, from the legal fraternity and representatives from NGOs working in the field of women and child rights, Balarisa Lyngdoh and Shannon Masser from Faith Foundation participated and oriented the participants on various topics such as gender, women’s rights, cyber crimes and its prevention, sexual harassment in the work place and other related topics.
The programme was inaugurated in the auditorium of Women’s College in the presence of the Mission Director SRCW, Dr C Khonglah, principal of Women’s College Dr Ratnadeep Roy, Administrator of Women’s College Higher Secondary, Dr Moushumi Dey, the college faculty and students and other invited guests.
