Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti

{{Short description|Human rights NGO in Assam, India}}

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{{Infobox organization

|name = Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti

|image =

|abbreviation = MASS

|formation = 1991

|type = NGO

|purpose = Human rights and civil liberties protection, education, and monitoring

|headquarters = Udanashri Building,
Ananda Nagar,
Bamunimoidam,
Guwahati – 781021

|location = Assam

|region_served = Northeast India

|language = Assamese, English

|leader_title = Chairman

|leader_name = Ajit Kumar Bhuyan

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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 headquarters is at Bamunimoidam, Guwahati.{{Cite book |last=Mahanta |first=Nani Gopal |title=Confronting the state : ULFA's quest for sovereignty |publisher=Sage publications |year=2013 |isbn=9788132107040 |location=New Delhi |page=15 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |date=2012 |title=Fact-Finding on Mega Dams in North-East |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23214959 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=47 |issue=19 |page=5 |jstor=23214959 |issn=0012-9976 }}

The NGO has been working on protection and promotion of human rights and civil liberties, human rights education and mass mobilization, resistance and documentation of human rights violations. It also documents and challenges the alleged human rights violations in Assam by the Indian Army, paramilitary forces and state police.{{Cite journal |last=Gupta |first=Asish |date=2009 |title=Cold-blooded Murder in Manipur |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25663480 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=44 |issue=35 |pages=4–74 |jstor=25663480 |issn=0012-9976 }}

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