Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti

Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
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 Monitoring
Headquarters Udanashri Building,
Ananda Nagar,
Bamunimoidam,
Guwahati – 781021
Location 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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