Our Correspondent
Kohima | September 3
Nagaland Women Commission (NWC) today launched “Legal Awareness Campaign on Statutory Rights of Women” in a function held in Oriental College in Kohima.
Declaring the launch of the campaign here, NWC chairperson Sano Vamuzo said Nagaland has produced many highly-qualified educated young people. Yet, she said, “There is a big question as how many will be really useful to the society. I am afraid majority will be found wanting when responsibilities are thrust upon them.”
“Today we observe that many leaders from top to bottom; elderly responsible people are not living up to the expectation of people around them,” she said while referring to reports about irresponsible living of people engaged in corruption, stealing, fighting, extortion, killing etc.”
“It is all because these people have not learned the fear of God when they were young as children and students,” Vamuzo said. That students will not always remain students, she challenged them to make use of all opportunities to equip themselves to face any challenges tomorrow.
Sano said the role of NSWC is to safeguard the rights of women and to bring succor to the aggrieved women. “We believe that God designed woman as distinct and separate individual for the purpose of complementing his creation of man, but not duplicating it,” the chairperson said. That man and woman are made for each other and together for God; they together make God’s purpose of creating them whole and complete, she said.
The NWC chief said women don’t have to copy man or that men need to ‘copy’ woman, but acknowledge each other’s gifts and promote each other in mutual appreciation and respects.
She also appealed to young men to take care and protect the women as “your mothers and sisters because physically and biologically they are made differently.”
Also to women, Sano said “It is our obligation to respect men attend to their need and assist them. We are not to compete with men but to compliment each other.”
Lydia Yeptho, legal consultant of NWC was the resource person.
