| 9.00 -10.30 am |
Legal Milestones in India and Nepal
Justice A. P. Shah (India)
Sunil Babu Pant (Nepal)
Moderated by Shohini Ghosh |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 10.30 -11.00 am |
Tea |
| 11.00 am - 1.00 pm |
Making Sure We're Counted: Sex Workers' Movements in South Asia
Lubna Tayyab (Pakistan)
Mehwish (Pakistan)
Naseema (India)
Shasi Kumar Arumanayagam (Sri Lanka)
Purnima Chatterjee (India)
Shabana (India)
Shruti Karki (Nepal)
Moderated by Meena Seshu |
Malhar |
Bengali
Hindi |
| 11.00 am - 1.00 pm |
Making Sure We're Counted: Disability Rights Movement in South Asia
Ashrafun Nahar Misti (Bangladesh)
Jeeja Ghosh (India)
Kanchan Pamnani (India)
Manique Gunaratne (Sri Lanka)
Renu Addlakha (India)
Tika Devi Dahal (Nepal)
Janet Price (UK)
Moderated by S.Vinita |
Megha |
Bengali
Nepali
Sign language |
| 11.00 am - 1.00 pm |
Making Sure We're Counted: Lesbian and Queer Activism in South Asia
Durga Thapa (Nepal)
Fatima Khanam (Bangladesh)
Ponni Arasu (India)
Shermal Wijewardene (Sri Lanka)
Subhagata Ghosh (India)
Moderated by Sunita Kujur |
Malshree |
Hindi |
| 11.00 am - 1.00 pm |
Making Sure We're Counted: Trans People Organising in South Asia
Kalki Subramaniam (India)
Manisha Dhakal (Nepal)
Roshan De Silva (Sri Lanka)
Sarah Gill (Pakistan)
Sarah Suhail (Pakistan)
Zaini (Pakistan)
Moderated by Satya Rai Nagpaul |
Marva |
Nepali |
| 1.00 - 2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
Role of Stigma and Discrimination in Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS
Anandi Yuvaraj (India)
Hans Bilimoria (Sri Lanka)
Habiba Akhter (Bangladesh)
Moderated by Jaime Todd-Gher |
Marva |
Bengali
Nepali |
| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
In the Name of Religion : Women on the Margins Resisting Fundamentalism
Jessica Horn (Sierra Leone)
Lydia Alpizar Duran (Costa Rica)
Sara Hossain (Bangladesh) |
Malshree |
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| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
Can you Run and Speak Women's Rights at the Same Time?
Cindy Coltman (Netherlands)
Lucky Chhetri (Nepal)
Mashuda Khatun Shefali (Bangladesh)
Sanjana Gaind (India) |
Malhar |
Hindi
Nepali |
| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
'Funding on the Margins' : Donors' and Activists' Perspectives
Ashrafun Nahar Misti (Bangladesh)
Deepa Vasudevan (India)
Namita Chad (USA)
Nicky McIntyre (Netherlands)
Puja Roy (Sri Lanka / India)
Radhika Chandiramani (India)
Moderated by Geeta Misra |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi |
| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
Discrimination, Stigma and Exclusion of Marginalised Women in Bangladesh
Hena Akhter (Bangladesh)
Jannatul Firdous (Bangladesh)
Joya Sikder (Bangladesh)
Shahinur Akhter (Bangladesh)
Umme Kulsum (Bangladesh)
Moderated by Shakhawat Hossain |
Malhar Lounge |
English |
| 2.00 - 3.30 pm |
Violence Against the Sexually Marginalised in Nepal
Bhumika Shrestha (Nepal)
Bijaya Dhakal (Nepal)
Laxmi Ghalan (Nepali)
Raaz Husen (Nepal) |
Himalchuli |
English
Sign Language |
| 3.30 - 4.00 pm |
Tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 pm |
In Conversation
Rituparno Ghosh (India) with Shohini Ghosh (India) |
Malhar |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 6.00 - 7.00 pm |
Performance
Aiguardent by Marta Carrasco (Spain) |
Megha |
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| 9.30 pm |
Film Screenings
Aarekti Premer Golpo Sixth Happiness Akasa Kusuma,
Out of the Closet Tales of the Night Fairies,
Zinda Lash |
Malshree
Marva
Malhar
Himalchuli |
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