- Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
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For other uses, see Mass (disambiguation).
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti Abbreviation MASS Formation 1991 Type NGO Purpose/focus Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Human Rights Protection
Human Rights Education
Human Rights MonitoringHeadquarters Udanashri Building,
Ananda Nagar,
Bamunimoidam,
Guwahati – 781021Location Assam, India Region served Northeast India Official languages Assamese, English Chairman Ajit Kumar Bhuyan Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS), (Assamese মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি), is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam. The present chairman is Ajit Kumar Bhuyan and its headquarter is at Bamunimoidam, Guwahati.
The NGO has been working on protection and promotion of human rights both civil and political, human rights education and mass mobilization, resistance and documentation of human rights violation etc. It also challenges the alleged human rights violation in Assam by the Indian Army, paramilitary forces and state police.
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