Feminist Problematization of Human Rights in North –East India: A Critical Assessment

The aim or status of universalism of women has been a great deal discussed issue of feminism in the post-modern era or the end of twentieth century. About portion of the total population is comprised by women; however yet they have not appreciated equivalent rights in the society or they have not treated equally as men. Social attitudes, customs, gender differences, traditions and so on, are chiefly responsible for the disparity between men and women. Feminism movement is criticized that how is injustice to be judged and condemned if contestation and the openness of ungrounded universalism are the only ideals. My aim of this paper is to enquiry into the commitments to equality implicit in feminism and its relationship to ‘actually existing’ human rights for women as they have been re-worked by the international feminist movement. Therefore, in this paper, an attempt has been made to conceptualize certain gender specific infringement as Human Rights violation with regards to North-East India. It argues that feminism can be used to provide support for one possible understanding of equality set in the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. So this paper is to highlight some points of gender biases, women exploitation and crimes against women and make women conversant with the basic women rights by putting the laws in action and pave the way for women empowerment.