• Neel Kumar Brahma

Witch-hunting is found to be a traditional practice in some of the tribal society in India. Those so called labelled witches are usually found to be elderly people or women living alone. They are accused of manipulating some paranormal energy with evil intentions in the area. Witch branding takes place mostly in rural tribal community areas where poor people predominantly live. The occurrence of incidence of witch-hunting especially in BTR area in the recent past had led to gross human rights violations. This so called practice has caused untold sufferings of humiliation for women, loss of respect, dignity, culture and above all unspeakable horror in the society. In this article I have tried to provide an overview of incidence of human rights violations of tribal women due to witch hunting and measures for ending and eradication of the practice. This article is based on data collected through various secondary sources like books and articles from internet.

Witch-hunting, tribal society, elderly people or women, human rights violations

"Witch-hunting and Human Rights Violations against Tribal women in BTR, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.e276-e279, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312438.pdf

"Witch-hunting and Human Rights Violations against Tribal women in BTR, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. ppe276-e279, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312438.pdf