Side Event on 'Human Rights in India' at HRC 25 at Geneva
Date : 18 March 2014
INDIA: Invitation to a side event at HRC 25 on 18 March***
The Asian Legal Resource Centre wishes to invite you for a side event
on *Human Rights in India* to be held from 13:00 to 15:00 hrs, on 18
March 2014 in room number XXVII.
The side event will discuss human rights issues in India, and the
efforts of civil society and state institutions. The panellists will
highlight steps in, and concerns regarding, seeking and obtaining
adequate redress to human rights violations, speaking to specific
issues of gendered violence, livelihood options, and ethnic and
religious violence, and to issues relevant to minority communities and
issues of inclusive security, and concerns pertaining to human rights
defenders.
Kindly reply to [email protected] confirming your attendance.
*Chair: Mr. Bijo Francis, ALRC, Hong Kong*
Francis is a lawyer from India, currently heading the Hong Kong based
regional human rights organisation, ALRC. His work focuses on the
development of legal self-reliance at the local level. Francis works
closely with and support regional, national, and local groups.
Through ALRC, Francis promotes the development of specific legal
service and resource programmes for self-help and seeks the
introduction and improvement of effective government legal services.
*Speakers:*
*Dr. Angana Chatterji, C*ultural Anthropologist and Human Rights Specialist
Chatterji focuses her academic and scholarly work on issues of gender
violence, religion in the public sphere, and cultural survival.
Chatterji's recent publications include: /Violent Gods: Hindu
Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa/ (2009); /Land
and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival/ (forthcoming); a
co-edited volume, /Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia;
Notes on the Postcolonial Present/ (2012). Chatterji was a Member,
Drafting Committee on Minimum Standards, Second World Congress on
Psychosocial Restitution (2010), in Bogotá, Colombia.
*Mr. Mihir Desai, Advocate, Supreme Court of India*
Desai is a human rights lawyer practicing in the Mumbai High Court
and the Supreme Court of India. Desai has focused on issues of:
socioeconomic zones, security legislation, torture, and sexual assault
and rape, and cases of survivors of the Gujarat massacre of 2002.
Desai was co-editor of /Combat Law/, a human rights magazine, and is
the author of various publications, and co-editor of the book /Women
and Law /(1999)./ /
*Mr. Babloo Loitongbom, Human Rights Alert, Manipur, India*
Loitongbom is a human rights defender, working in the northeastern
state of India, Manipur. His work focuses on securing justice for
victims of violence by state and non-state actors.
*/ /**/About the ALRC: /*/The Asian Legal Resource Centre is an
independent regional non-governmental organisation holding general
consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations. It is the sister organisation of the Asian Human Rights
Commission. The Hong Kong-based group seeks to strengthen and
encourage positive action on legal and human rights issues at the
local and national levels throughout Asia./
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This Press Release was posted on March 13 , 2014
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