Paincha in Adivasia (Sadri) is the bamboo string in the bow that catapults the arrow to its target.

UPR III

The Universal Periodic Review [UPR] is a

process of the United Nations Human Rights

Council (UNHCR) which involves a review of

the human rights record of 193 UN Member

States once every five years. The review is

conducted by the UPR Working Group.

During this period, the UN member states

have their human rights standards scrutinised

thoroughly through a peer-to-peer human

rights monitoring mechanism. The UPR is a

unique process as it makes civil society an

equal stakeholder in discussing the human

rights situation in a country along with the

government and national human rights

institutions.

PAJHRA in collaboration with Tezpur Law

College and Nazdeek organised a live

telecast of India’s report presentation at the

Universal Periodic Review (UPR lll). In

Assam PAJHRA was one of the two

organisations which organised a live telecast

of this event. Shri Mukul Rohatgi, the

Attorney General of India presented India’s

report at the UN during the 27th session of

the UPR in Geneva.

60 participants among whom were

government officials, journalists,

academicians, activists and students

participated in a short discussion presided

over by Dr Bhaskar Kumar Chakravarty,

Professor and HoD of Law Department of

Tezpur University.

Report presented at UN differed from ground reality.

There is no strict monitoring mechanism on different

schemes the government is implementing.

Human rights situation in India is bad. Little action is taken

against the rights violators.

India should give the actual picture of human rights

situation in the country at the UN and follow the

recommendations given by the member countries and the

civil society.

Stephen Ekka interacting with the participants

PAINCHA

Participants’ views and feedback on India’s UPR

PAJHRA Newsletter

Vol :: V Issue : IIIMay, June, July 2017 Private Circulation

Awareness  programme at Adabari and Khelmati T.Es

Tezpur Law College [TLC] collaborated with

PAJHRA and organised an awareness programme

on Right to Education [RTE] Act on 21 March 2017 at

Adabarie and Khelmati TEs in Sonitpur district.

Professors of TLC including its Principal Dr. Bhuban

Chandra Barooah, Prof. Mridula were present in the

programme. Stephen Ekka, the director of PAJHRA

too was also present. 50 children and workers of the

tea gardens attended the programme. During their

interaction with the parents and children, the

professors dealt on the issues of the tea garden

workers and expressed the need for parental

guidance for education of their children. They also

spoke on the importance and multi dimensional

benefit of education.

ACRN meeting: at UNICEF office,Guwahati

Stephen Ekka represented PAJHRA in the

Adolescent and Child Rights Network, Assam

[ACRNA] planning meeting held at UNICEF

office, Guwahati on 31 May 2017. The ACRNA

members worked on the broacher, discussed on

the future activities of the network and inclusion

of membership.

Meeting with youths and Fellows

The youth coordinator held separate meetings with the

youths and fellows of five districts of Dibrugarh

(Khoomtie), Golaghat (Rangajan), Sonitpur (Borjuli) and

Nagoan (Salana) from May to July 2017. The purpose

of the visit and the meetings was to know and take

actions on the status of the vocations which the dropout

youths have selected, understand issues which have

prevented the youths from participating in their

vocations and further plan with them for achieving the

targets within the set time frame.

Meeting with Fellows at PAJHRA.

Executive meeting

On 29th July, the Executive members of PAJHRA

had attendant the meeting. All together 8 members

participated . The members discussed the

organizational matters.

Executive members having a discussion.

Dr. Bhuban Chandra Barooah ,Principal of Tezpur Law College interacting with the people.

The second phase of effective monitoring workshop was

held from 27th to 30th June 2017 at Jesuit Bhawan,

Tezpur. The project coordinators and the team of

Misereor project participated in the training. The focus of

the training was collection of data from the field, data

entry and analysis. Field visits were made to collect the

relevant data from the stakeholders of the project.

The training was given by Association for Stimulating

Know-how (ASK).

Flood ResponseThe floods in Assam in 2017 affected almost all the

districts. PAJHRA responded to the situation by

providing relief materials to the affected families

in two revenue circles of Chariduar and Naduar in

Balipara block of Sonitpur district. The first phase of

the flood response began on 14th July. The support

for the flood response came from Start Fund through

Save the Children.600 households were targeted in

15 villages of the two revenue circles.

In the first phase,relief materials were distributed in

four villages of Tubukijar, Pakbil, Sarupatgaon and

Dighali under Chariduar revenue circle.

       Effective Monitoring   Workshop

Distribution of flood relief materials

Unit Committee formation

A unit committee of the women’s forum was

formed at Kakoyal village in Lakhimpur district on

4th June 2017. District committee members and

the Asst. Women Coordinator were present

during the formation. 45 women participated in

the meeting.

Anti child labour day

Around 300 men, women and especially children

participated in the rally against child trafficking and

child labour in observance of Anti child labour

day.The procession took place at Dhekiajuli

town. Participants came from

Narayanpur,Dhekiajuli,Dibru Darrang,Dherai and

Thinkhuria tea estates and Dhekiajuli district.Street

play on child trafficking and child labour were also

displayed .

Anti child labour day observed in Dhekiajuli

The project heads meeting and the quarterly

meeting of the staffs of PAJHRA was held on 10

June 2017 at ACRTC, Dhekiajuli. All the staffs

were present for the meeting. They discussed on

the status of their different project activities, shared

the successes and challenges and the new

learnings during the past months. Discussions

were also done on how different projects could

help each other in areas where two or more

projects are implemented. It was also an occasion

for the Misereor project to look at the

achievements of its Results which the team did.

At the end of the meeting, each project team

reworked and finalised their activities for next three

months.

Project head meeting and quarterly meeting

Photo gallery 

Bidding farewell to Agustus Kujur and Alphonse Kujur.

Stephen Ekka,Director of PAJHRA attending the Campaign Coordination meeting at New Delhi.

Quarterly staff meeting held in training center,Sapoi Bhutiali.

Girl Child Day March

In recognition of Girl child day, a march was carried

out in Narayanpur tea estate in Sonitpur District to

stop the rising issue of child trafficking and child

labour.Women and children alike participated in the

programme.

Girl child day

Madame Kritanjali Kashyap facilitating the workshop

From 24th to 27th July, Save the Children in

collaboration with PAJHRA and PAD (People's

Action For Development)organized a Life Skill

development programme for the adolescents at

Gana Chetna Samaj . They were given orientation

on future carriers and how one should choose their

carrier options.

Workshop on Life skills for the adolescents