Events Event, Oct 31: Can South Asia combat the climate crisis? 19 Oct 202124 Oct 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 202128 Sep 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 202112 Sep 2021 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 202129 Aug 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 Neighbours in Peace’, a title borrowed from an unpublished volume by Chowk.com, 2005.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 Neighbours in Peace’, a title borrowed from an unpublished volume by Chowk.com, 2005.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…
