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November 21, 2014

Announcement: meet to discuss the plight of Minorities in South Asian Countries (24 Nov 2014 @ People's SAARC in Kathmandu, Nepal)


Dear all,


Greetings from Mumbai !

You must be aware of "People's SAARC meet in Kathmandu, Nepal from 22 Nov,2014 - 24 Nov,2014. We are organizing a meet to discuss the plight of Minorities in South Asian Countries. Our objective is to develop a strong network of organizations working for the Human Rights of minorities.The second objective is to evolve a broad principles based on which South Asian Charter for Minority Rights could be developed.

We could slowly walk towards persuading a SAARC status to adopt the charter.

Our meeting is scheduled on 24th Nov,2014 in the first shift i.e. from 8:30am to 11:00am in LDTA small hall.

Are you participating in People's SAARC meet.In case you are then we would appreciate if you participate in our meeting and share with others the situation and status of minorities in your country; Laws,policies and ideologies that protect/oppress them and broad principles that should be included in South Asian Charter of Minority Rights.


We are requesting all resource persons to present their view in about 5 minutes. We would be highly obliged if you share yours views with others and contribute towards the charter and building a strong network towards minorities.


we proposed to meet as under :-

Time

Topic

Person

8:30-8:35am
Welcome
Neha Dabhade

8:35-8:45am
Introduction to the purpose & objective of the meet
Irfan Engineer

8:45-9:15am
Key note address, Majoritarians, Ideologies, State & Plight of Minorities in South Asia.

Harsh Mandar,
Ram Puniyani,
Kamla Bhasin,
Ranu Jain

9:15-10:15am
Status of minorities in south Asian countries

Karamat Ali (Pakistan),
Zakia Soman (India),
S.balakrishnan (Srilanka),
Mohiuddin Ahamad,
Raz Mohammad Dalili(Afghanistan),
Bashir Manzar and others

10:15-11:00am
Suggestion of broad principles, South Asian Charter of Minorities and strengthening network of Minority Organization in South Asia
Harsh Mandar,
Karamat Ali

warm regards,
Adv. Irfan Engineer

Director,
Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
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