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About Meghalaya State Commission for Women The
Meghalaya State Commission for Women (MSCW) was constituted on
15.10.2004 extending its jurisdiction to the whole state of
Meghalaya, with an objective to improve the status of women,
investigation of violation of safeguards for women; such as to
inquire into any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the
basis of sex for the purpose of or which has the effect of impairing
or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women of
fundamental constitutional rights, or of human rights, or of
fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social, cultural,
civil or any other field or the infringement of any right or benefit
conferred on women by or under the provisions of any law for the
time being in force or the mental or physical torture or sexual
excesses on women including an adolescent girl and a female child.
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