South Asia State of Minorities Report 2016: Mapping the Terrain

Release of the book followed by a discussion

 

 

 

The book will be released by Prof. Muchkund Dubey, Council for Social Development

 

 

 

Speakers/Authors: Sajjad Hassan, Editor, Misaal – Centre for Equity Studies; Omar Sadr, South Asian University, New Delhi (Afghanistan); Naaz Khair, Minority Rights researcher and activist, India

 

 

 

Discussants: Rita Manchanda, South Asia Forum for Human Rights and Ravi Nair, South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre

 

 

‘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