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Subject: [psaarcindia] Invite: Release of South Asia State of Minorities
Report - 30 Sept 2016, 6:30 pm, IIC, New Delhi
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:45:57 +0530
From: Psaarc -India <psaarc.india at gmail.com>
To: psaarcindia at googlegroups.com <psaarcindia at googlegroups.com>,
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*IIC, Misaal/Centre for Equity Studies & People’s SAARC-India*

*invite you for the release of *

*‘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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SAARC-India

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