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Ahead of May Day, a call for worker unity, solidarity and a visa-free Southasia

30 Apr 202215 May 2022
A syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Priyanka Singh, Beena Sarwar April 30, 2022, Sapan News Service: The last Sunday of April…
Events…

Event, Apr 24: Labour rights and democracy in Southasia

19 Apr 202223 Apr 2022
On the last Sunday of April, ahead of International Workers’ Day or May Day, activists and experts from across the region will discuss Labour rights and democracy in Southasia at…
Press Statements…

Evoking the madness of Manto, what we need is ‘one big roar of laughter across Southasia’

11 Apr 202216 May 2022
A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News Artists, journalists, sportspersons, healthcare workers, educators, businesspersons, students, gather for the first anniversary of a Southasian peace coalition.…
Sapan News

Let’s teach our kids about peace before someone else teaches them to hate

8 Apr 20226 May 2022
A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Rahul Mukherji and Beena Sarwar April 7, 2022, Sapan News Service: On 6 April 2022, an 11-year-old…
Sapan News

Sara Suleri: Beyond borders

27 Mar 202231 Mar 2022
PERSONAL-POLITICAL By Beena Sarwar March 25, 2022, Sapan News Service: “Aur bataiye” – tell me more, a polite invitation to keep talking. I can hear her voice, perhaps naturally husky,…
Events…

Event, Mar 27: Sapan completes a year

24 Mar 202225 Mar 2022
“How do we go beyond the ideological divide? How do we move the needle on regional peace and socio-economic and gender justice in Southasia?” Fired by the need for a…
Press Statements…

The power of love and a Southasian resolution on the Ukraine crisis

12 Mar 202218 Mar 2022
By Priyanka Singh and Beena Sarwar March 9, 2022 “It is the power of love that’s most important, not the love of power”, said Dhaka-based feminist Khushi Kabir, quoting her…
Press Statements

Sapan Logo competition: Submit your logos for a good cause and win a cash prize!

9 Mar 202211 Mar 2022
Deadline for submissions: March 25, 2022 Announcing a design contest to create a novel, catchy logo for Southasia Peace Action Network (Sapan). The competition winner will receive a certificate and…
Events

Event, Feb 27: Mystics and Music – Southasia’s Legacy of Love

21 Feb 202227 Feb 2022
Prominent artists from across Southasia will meet online to share perspectives on "Mystics and Music: Southasia’s Legacy of Love", Sunday, 27 February 2022, organised by Southasia Peace Action Network, or…
Press Statements…

Singing and inspiration in dark times: Art and resistance in South Asia

4 Feb 202211 Feb 2022
NOTE: This feature report produced by Sapan News Service is free for publication  with credit to Sapan, www.southasiapeace.com. Editors may trim content to their own needs. By Sushmita Preetha and…
Events

Event, Jan 30: Resisting Together – Art and the Artist in South Asia

24 Jan 202229 Jan 2022
Prominent artists across South Asia will meet virtually to share perspectives on art and the culture of resistance in South Asia. Titled “Resisting Together: Art and the Artist in South…
Press Statements…

Hindu pilgrims visit Pakistan, Muslim delegation for India late January

6 Jan 20226 Jan 2022
By Beena Sarwar / Sapan News Service January 5, 2022: An international delegation of 200 Hindu pilgrims in Pakistan for a four-day religious tourism visit departed this week after performing…
Resolutions

Sapan Declaration on Human Rights and Equality

31 Dec 202131 Dec 2021
We, the participants at the session on ‘Human Rights and Equality in South Asia: Growing Up, Growing Together’, organised by South Asia Peace Action Network or Sapan, on December 26,…
Press Statements…

“Growing up, growing together”: Activists across South Asia resolve to continue working for a better tomorrow

31 Dec 20218 Jan 2022
DECEMBER 30: Activists from across South Asia have expressed concern at the deteriorating human rights situation in the region, amidst growing majoritarian authoritarianism and a rise in discrimination on basis…
Events

Event, Dec 26: Human Rights and Equality in South Asia – Growing Up, Growing Together

19 Dec 202120 Dec 2021
South Asia Peace Action Network, Sapan, invites you to a discussion meeting on human rights and equality in South Asia, and why we must 'grow up' to grow together. At…
Press Statements…

Feminise to Humanise: The universe of violence against South Asia’s women

3 Dec 20218 Jan 2022
By Lubna Jerar and Priyanka Singh 2 December 2021: What South Asia needs is a feminisation of politics and polity. This is necessary to counter the “grand celebration of the triumph…
Press Statements

Sapan webinar to mark 16 days of activism against gender-based violence

27 Nov 202127 Nov 2021
27 November, 2021: South Asia Peace Action Network (SAPAN) is organising a webinar on 28 November 2021, Sunday, at 18:30 PKT/19:00 IST titled, “Gender Violence in South Asia: Feminise to…
Events

Event, Nov 28: Gender Violence in South Asia – Feminise to Humanise

19 Nov 202127 Nov 2021
South Asia Peace Action Network (Sapan) invites you to a discussion meeting on the subject of gender violence in South Asia, and why we need to 'feminise to humanise'. The…
Sapan News

How climate change is linked to the tragedy of a Bengali-Pakistani fisherman incarcerated in India

31 Oct 20212 Dec 2021
By Beena Sarwar Lead photo: Amir Hamza's coffin exchanged at Wagah border, Sept. 14, 2021. Photo: Obtained from source. The tragedy of a fisherman who died of Covid-19 while imprisoned…
Events

Event, Oct 31: Can South Asia combat the climate crisis?

19 Oct 202121 Nov 2021
South Asia Peace Action Network (Sapan) is organising a brainstorming discussion online around the climate crisis in South Asia and how the region can come together to solve these pressing…
Sapan News

Curtain raiser: Women step up for peace in South Asia

30 Sep 202130 Sep 2021
“The power of feminine wisdom, the spirit of solidarity, and a vision tinted with empathy” NEW DELHI: Prominent Indian actor-director Nandita Das and British-Afghan journalist Najiba Laima Kasraee are among…
Events

Event, 26 Sept: 20 years after 9/11: Impact on South Asia, and South Asians

15 Sep 202119 Nov 2021
Marking two decades of the September 2001 attacks on New York City, global thought leaders and activists from across South Asia and the diaspora will meet across time zones this…
Sapan News

Remembering Hal Gould, a friend of South Asia

8 Sep 2021
By Beena Sarwar When some of us launched a South Asia initiative earlier this year, Hal Gould came to mind. I wondered how he was. We were in a pandemic,…
Resolutions

Resolution: Rights of the incarcerated in South Asia

6 Sep 20219 Sep 2021
29 August 2021: Several prominent legal experts, journalists, and human-rights activists have reviewed and commented on this Resolution. We have consolidated and accommodated multiple voices mirroring vast experiences and realities…
Press Statements

Uphold the rights of the incarcerated in South Asia, say human-rights advocates

30 Aug 202116 May 2022
29 August 2021: “If the government becomes the monster that it can be, then the belly of the beast contains the people in jail”, said Nepali journalist Kanak Mani Dixit,…
Events

Event, Aug 29: Rights of the Incarcerated in South Asia

18 Aug 202119 Dec 2021
Sapan invites you for the fifth in a series of curated monthly events themed ‘Imagine! Neighbours in Peace’, a title borrowed from an unpublished volume by Chowk.com, 2005. This month includes World…
Events

Event, May 30: South Asian Solidarity in the Time of Covid: Sharing Grief, Inspiration, Hope and Strategies

20 May 20218 Aug 2021
Sapan invites you for the second in a series of curated monthly events themed ‘Imagine! Neighbours in Peace’, a title borrowed from an unpublished volume by Chowk.com, 2005. Activists from…
Events

Event, April 25: Cross-border empathy and cooperation in the Time of Covid

19 Apr 202112 Aug 2021
South Asians will come together for an online gathering Sunday to express concern and solidarity amidst the suffering inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. Cross-border empathy and cooperation in the Time…

Imagine! Neighbours in Peace

Streets for life: Southasians for road safety29 May 2022
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