Within two and a half months of its formation, Naga Lawyers Forum, Delhi, took a big stride forward when it arranged a workshop for the Naga working women. The workshop dealt with the problem of sexual harassment of women at workplace. The workshop was organized in association with renowned NGO Sakshi.

This was the first initiative of Naga Lawyers Forum. The objective of this Forum is to generate legal awareness and provide legal services as and when required to Naga people living in Delhi. Still at     a nascent stage, the forum has  nearly 25-members, who are practicing in different courts of Delhi including Supreme Court and Delhi High Court.

President of the Forum D. Stephen K. Yanthan informed that though initially the forum would    like to keep its activities confined     to Naga people only, the forum would welcome people from other North-Eastern states too. He    further clarified that the fact that Nagas in Delhi are constantly encountering various challenges and hurdles in their day-to-day activities, he along with his friends decided to form the forum.

“The prime vision of the Forum is to provide a legal umbrella to the Nagas in Delhi and very soon, the Forum intends to orgganise seminars and other programs in a much larger scale by inviting eminent jurists,” stressed Stephen Yanthan, president of the Forum.

The workshop organized in association with Sakshi, famously known for the ‘Vishaka Guidelines’ relating to sexual harassment of women at the workplace, was attended by Naga working         women. Most of the participants found the workshop very enlightening and beneficial and expressed the desire to take up more of such projects in future and encouraged the Forum to spread out to other Naga friends who are working in Delhi and neighbouring areas in various sectors. Commenting that the workshop was very useful, one of the participants revealed that women often fail to identify what is sexual harassment at working places. “The workshop helped us to know the limit,” she stressed. The workshop also helped the participants in identifying the legal cell where working women could go to lodge complaints. “The problem is serious especially in call centres as there are no legal cells,” claimed another participant.

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