COOCH BEHAR DISTRICT MEETING
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we
think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make
choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence
through adulthood.
Over the course of human life, if anyone experience mental health problems, that person’s
thinking, mood, and behaviour could be affected. Many factors contribute to mental health
problems, including:
• Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry
• Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse
• Family history of mental health problems
Mental health problems are common but help is available. People with mental health
problems can get better and many recover completely and lead the rest life smoothly.
Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of
racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities; and also
the collective rights accorded to any minority group.
Civil-rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis
of membership in a minority group. Such civil-rights advocates include the global women'srights and global LGBT-rights movements, and various racial-minority rights movements
around the world (such as the Civil Rights Movement in the United States).
The infringement of fundamental human rights is intolerable by the democratic nation-states.
However, it is argued that a nation state's principles of nationalism may provoke oppressive
and discriminatory action towards the fundamental human rights of minority groups.
The transgender community is incredibly diverse. Some trans people identify as trans
men or trans women, while others may describe themselves as non-binary, genderqueer,
gender non-conforming, agender, bigender or other identities that reflect their personal
experience. Some of us take hormones or have surgery as part of our transition, while
others may change our pronouns or appearance. Roughly three-quarters of Trans youth
that responded to an HRC Foundation and University of Connecticut survey identified
with terms other than strictly “boy” or “girl.” This suggests that a larger portion of this
generation’s youth are identifying somewhere on the broad trans spectrum. Sexual
violence refers to any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act, or unwanted sexual
comments or acts to traffic, that are directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion by
anyone, regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including at home and at
work. Rape is the term that is commonly used for the first type of sexual violence mentioned
above (forced/coerced intercourse). Rape can be defined as non-consensual sexual
penetration, however slight, of any part of the body of the victim with a sexual organ, or of
the anal or genital opening of the victim with any object or any other part of the body. The
invasion is committed by force, or by threat of force or coercion, such as that caused by fear
of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or abuse of power, against such
person or another person, or by taking advantage of a coercive environment, or committed
against a person incapable of giving genuine consent