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Reinforcing Dalit leadership &
mainstreaming in Nepal
Panos TB Report
Panos South Asia in association with Calcutta Research Group invites applications for the annual winter course on Forced Migration Applications are invited for the Seventh Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration organised by Calcutta Research Group (CRG) and Panos South Asia, certified by the UNHCR and the CRG and supported by UNHCR, Government of Finland and the Brookings Institution. Developed over the last few years as a programme on human rights and peace education, the course has gained recognition in the region of South Asia as one of the most well known educational programmes on issues of rights and justice relating to the victims of forced migration ...More»
Panos South Asia presents its report on ‘Reinforcing Dalit leadership and mainstreaming in Nepal’ The publication ‘Reinforcing Dalit’s leadership and mainstreaming in Nepal: Learning from across the Border’ is the result of the visit of a Nepali Dalit delegation to India to learn from the lives and times of Dalits in the world’s largest democracy. With the aim of reinforcing the Dalit leadership movement mainstreaming in Nepal, the delegation comprising Dalit media, activists and leaders of the country visited institutions in four Indian cities: Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Chennai. The reports disseminate the information and knowledge gathered from the visits in the hope of influencing the political transition process in Nepal. We present the reports in English and Nepali ...More»
Panos Media Fellow wins Assam Sahitya Sabha's Ambikagiri Rai Chaudhury Award Pulin Kalita, Panos media fellow of the Northeast plural media and peace-building programme, has been given Assam Sahitya sabha's highest honour, the Ambikagiri Rai Chaudhury award for his book ' Axomiyar Songha, Axomiyar Asista'. Assam Sahitya Sabha President Rongbong Terang handed over the award to Pulin at a function in Dhemaji on February 18th, 2009 ...More»
Panos South Asia's reply to the article in 'The Island' ...More»
Panos South Asia’s multi-stakeholder dialogue in Switzerland on 'Conflict and reconciliation' by Naga researchers, media and academicians Continuing with our engagement with Naga partners and individuals to ensure that their struggle for self-determination is seen through prisms other than only the security-related and anthropological lenses, Panos South Asia facilitated travel of six partners drawn from varied fields to showcase cultural and academic productions in Switzerland. The visit which took place in early February 2009 centred around the ongoing exhibitions at the Museum of Culture at Basel and the Museum of Ethnology at Zurich. Organised thematically, programmes within the exchange spanned film screenings, talks and book readings by the participants. There were discussions with the organisers of these exhibitions on various aspects of research, representation and engagement with issues of the Naga peoples in their present context and the events reflected these concerns ...More»
Panos South Asia- UNDP South Asia- Asia Pacific Editors’ Roundtable on Inequality & Hunger Twenty editors from across the South Asia-Asia Pacific region took part in the two day deliberations organized by Panos South Asia and UNDP in the first week of February 2009 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The objective of the discourse was to frame a better media strategy to deal with more effective coverage of Hunger-related issues; thus minimizing hunger and poverty in the region.The roundtable followed up research carried out by Panos Sri Lanka to ascertain levels of coverage and importance given to issues of hunger by the English Media across seven Asia Pacific countries. Five English newspapers were selected from the following countries: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia. A comparative analysis was carried out to analyse which hunger-related issues were given most coverage in the region’s media the most ...More»
Move out of 'core issue' straightjacket, say Indo-Pak editors at Panos South Asia's seventh media retreat in Barcelona, Spain Panos South Asia hosted its seventh successive two-day media retreat at Barcelona, Spain on 23rd and 24th August 2008. Distinguished editors from the print and broadcast media in India and Pakistan touched on the complex new scenario in the region, the state of flux within both the countries and some fresh ideas of engagement. The Indo-Pak peace process has to move out of the straight jacket of a single core issue to grapple with hugely challenging geo-political realities,the editors and publishers from the region said.The retreat is organised annually in collaboration with Himal Southasian magazine under the aegis of Panos South Asia’s India and Pakistan Media and Peace-building programme. The discussions were moderated by Kanak Mani Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian ...More»
Pulin Kalita, Panos media fellow of the Northeast plural media and peace-building programme, has been given Assam Sahitya sabha's highest honour, the Ambikagiri Rai Chaudhury award for his book ' Axomiyar Songha, Axomiyar Asista'. Assam Sahitya Sabha President Rongbong Terang handed over the award to Pulin at a function in Dhemaji on February 18th, 2009 
