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Vision
A world in which all women, particularly those who are marginalised due to their gender or sexual expression, ability, profession, or marital status:
- live lives free of violence
- live in communities that are inclusive
- have equal access to all services including medical, legal and educational
- are able to exercise the full extent of their human rights
- are not discriminated against in law, practice or policy
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The format for the Count Me In! Conference includes:
Plenaries and Panels
Activists, researchers, scholars and performers will speak at the conference, sparking debates and discussions on the many aspects of social exclusion and violence against marginalised women. In addition to the impact of sex and gender norms, sessions will address the roles that factors such as caste, environment, economics, conflict, disability, displacement, migration, poverty, language and religion play in the marginalisation of sex workers, lesbians, disabled and single women, and trans people.
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The Count Me In! conference has commissioned background papers, to be written by leading scholars, activists and writers in South Asia. These papers will address issues of marginalisation and exclusion as concepts, and how they impact lives of sex workers, lesbians and disabled women and trans people. The following background papers will be made available at the conference :
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Day 1 - April 16 2011
| Time |
Title and Speakers |
Room |
Translation |
| 9.00 - 10.45 am |
Why Count Me In?
Geetanjali Misra (India)
S. Vinita (India)
Sapana Pradhan Mallah (Nepal)
Bishakha Datta (India)
Performance
Kritika Campaign (Nepal) |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 10.45 - 11.15 am |
Tea |
| 11.15 am - 1.00 pm |
Rights and Freedoms in South Asia
Kyla Pasha (Pakistan)
Kaushalya Perera (Sri Lanka)
Sara Hossain (Bangladesh)
Shohini Ghosh (India)
Moderated by Geetanjali Misra |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 1.00 - 2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00 - 2.20 pm |
From the Personal to the Political: the Journeys of Trans Men
Satya Rai Nagpaul (India) |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 2.20 - 3.30 pm |
In Conversation
Begum Nawazish Ali (Pakistan) with Bishakha Datta (India) |
Megha |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 3.30 - 4.00 pm |
Tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 pm |
The Contours of Our Exclusion
Durga Pujari (India)
Meena Seshu (India)
Anita Ghai (India)
Shilpa Phadke (India) Moderated by Geetanjali Misra |
Malhar |
Bengali
Hindi
Nepali
Sign language
Urdu |
| 6.00 - 7.00 pm |
Performance
Versatility in Universality by Ability Unlimited Foundation (India) |
Megha |
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Day 2 - April 17 2011
| Time |
Title and Speakers |
Room |
Translation |
| 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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Day 3 - April 18 2011
| Time |
Title and Speakers |
Room |
Translation |
| 9.00- 10.45 am |
In Conversation Arundhati Roy (India) with Shohini Ghosh (India) |
Megha |
Bengali Hindi Nepali Sign language Urdu |
| 10.45-11.15 am |
Tea |
| 11.15- 1.00 pm |
The Service is Political: Putting the Politics Back into Advocacy and Services
Deepa Vasudevan (India)
Durga Thapa (Nepal)
Kanwal Qayyum (Pakistan)
Khalida Brohi (Pakistan)
Gulalai Ismail (Pakistan)
Prabha Nagaraja (India)
Ratnaboli Ray (India)
Vinay Kulkarni (India) Moderated by Pramada Menon |
Marva |
Nepali |
| 11.15- 1.00 pm |
Uncovering the Truth: Researching Violence Against Marginalised Women
Jyotsna Tamang (Nepal)
Nayreen Daruwalla (India)
Samina Choonara (Pakistan)
Sarah Hawkes (UK)
Jaime Chow (Canada)
Smriti Nevatia (India)
Subhagata Ghosh (India)
Sutapa Majumdar (India)
Suborna Camellia (Bangladesh)
Moderated by Srilatha Batliwala |
Malshree |
Nepali |
| 11.15- 1.00 pm |
The World at Our Fingertips: Online Platforms, New Media, Digital Photography and Social Change Bishakha Datta (India)
Jayanthi Kuru Utumpala (Sri Lanka)
Nisha Susan (India)
Nighat Dad (Pakistan)
Partho Bhowmik (India)
Moderated by Geetanjali Misra |
Megha |
Hindi |
| 11.15- 1.00 pm |
Raising Voices, Claiming Space : Sexual Rights and the Women's Movement Firdous Azim (Bangladesh)
Maheen Sultan (Bangladesh)
Radhika Chandiramani (India)
Rita Thapa (Nepal)
Sunila Abeyasekara (Sri Lanka)
Moderated by Jaya Sharma |
Malhar |
Bengali Hindi Nepali |
| 11.15- 1.00 pm |
Subversive Narratives: Telling Our Stories
Pritham K Chakravarthy (India)
Reshma Valliappan (India) |
Himalchuli |
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| 1.00 - 2.00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00-2.45 pm |
Arts and Writing Reframe Disability : Perspectives on Sexuality and Violence Challenged
Malini Chib (India) |
Megha Malhar |
Bengali Hindi Nepali Sign language Urdu |
| 2.45 - 4.00 pm |
Arts and Writing Reframe Disability : Perspectives on Sexuality and Violence Challenged
The GIMP Project (USA) |
Megha Malhar |
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| 4.00 - 4.30 pm |
Tea |
| 4.30 - 6.00 pm |
Challenging Journeys, Promising Futures
Sunila Abeyasekara (Sri Lanka)
Srilatha Batliwala (India)
S. Vinita (India)
Moderated by Geetanjali Misra
Performance
Harmony - Earth Music from the Muses by Liberation Performing Arts Troupe (India) |
Megha Malhar |
Bengali Hindi Nepali Sign language Urdu |
| 7.30 pm |
Dinner, Performance and Dancing Fat, Feminist and Free by Pramada Menon (India) |
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