Binalakshmi Nepram

Binalakshmi Nepram is an Indian humanitarian, author, and female activist for the advocacy of gender rights and women-led disarmament movements with the objective of arresting gun culture and bringing about peace for her home state of Manipur in particular and northeast India in general.

[2] Nepram has established many institutions such as the Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) in 2004, and Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (MWGSN).

Her two years of research in JNU resulted in the publication titled South Asia's Fractured Frontier (2002) and she continued to work on her favourite subject of "Small Arms and Light Weapons (UNPoA)".

[1] In 2004, she was disturbed when Buddha Moirangthem, owner of a car-battery workshop in Wabagai Lamkhai village of Thoubal district, was gunned down by unidentified persons for no known reason, and his wife never came to know who did it and why.

[4] Nepram is the recipient of several national and international awards for her efforts to rehabilitate oppressed women and sufferers of armed conflict in Manipur and North East Region.

RISE Action Guide Launch Symposium at the United States Institute of Peace in 2023