IIC, Misaal/Centre for
Equity Studies & People’s SAARC-India
‘South Asia State of Minorities Report 2016: Mapping the Terrain’
Friday,
30 September 2016, 6:15 – 8:00 pm,
India International
Centre (IIC), Conference Room I, New Delhi
[1st Floor, main
building, above the Library]
Programme:
6:15 - 6:30 pm: Registration
6:30 - 6:35 pm: Welcome/introductions
6:35 - 6:40 pm: Release by Chair
Prof. Muchkund Dubey
(Council
for Social Development, New Delhi)
6:40 - 6:50 pm: Rita
Manchanda, Discussant
(South Asia Forum for Human Rights)
6:50 - 7:00 pm: Ravi Nair, Discussant
(South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre)
7:00 - 7:15 pm: Chair’s remarks
7:15 - 7:30 pm: Authors respond
Sajjad
Hassan, Editor of the report
(Misaal – Centre for Equity Studies)
Omar Sadr
(South Asian University, New Delhi/Afghanistan)
Naaz Khair
(Minority rights researcher and activist /India)
7:30 - 7:55 pm: Q&A
7:55 – 8:00 pm: Closing and Vote of thanks
Background:
‘South Asia State of Minorities
Report 2016: Mapping the Terrain’, seeks to systematically document
and track the condition of South Asia’s minorities and their access to rights
as citizens, in order to build a body of evidence, and spur public debate on the
subject, in the region. The report, jointly authored by a group of research and
advocacy groups from across South Asia – calling themselves The South Asia
Collective - aspires to contribute to advocacy for establishing South Asia-wide
minority rights standards, instruments and mechanisms, and also galvanise the
region's civil society, around minority rights protection and promotion, in
order to encourage state parties to adopt and enforce those instruments.
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Jointly organized
by IIC, Misaal/Centre for Equity Studies & People’s SAARC-India
Misaal - Centre for Equity Studies
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New Delhi 110024
Ph: +91 11 41 32 80 40
Email: psaarc.india@gmail.com