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Event, May 29- Streets for life: Southasians for road safety

18 May 202219 May 2022
Ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting on Global Road Safety, 30 June - 1 July, and following UN Global Road Safety Week May 13-17, we invite you to join…
Sapan News

Kamla Bhasin, the spirit of Southasia and the power of the four-letter word love

16 May 202216 May 2022
Note: This syndicated feature published in November 2021 has been belatedly posted to the Sapan website. A syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News Commemorating 16 Days…
Sapan News

Let people meet – before it’s too late

6 May 20229 May 2022
A Sapan syndicated feature available for use with attribution to Sapan News By Tridivesh Singh Maini May 6, 2022, Sapan News Service: The past few months have seen several instances…
Press Statements…

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…
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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,…
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…
Sapan News

Opinion: Pakistan’s ‘Aurat March’ 2022: To be or not to be

7 Mar 202216 Apr 2022
By Nadra Huma Quraishi March 7, 2022, Sapan News Service: On March 8, women around the world mark a day they call their own -- International Women’s Day, highlighting achievements…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Events…

Commemorating ‘the second 9/11’ and the way ahead

29 Sep 202116 May 2022
The United States and India should join with other regional powers to deal with the Taliban and help the Afghan people – Noam Chomsky BOSTON, 27 September: Prominent academic Noam…
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…
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, 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…
Press Statements

Pakistani-American physicians express solidarity with the people of India and demand increase in healthcare budgets

11 May 202118 Jul 2021
Urge South Asian governments to learn from India’s colossal tragedy and take urgent action to prevent similar crises in other countries BOSTON: Pakistan-origin physicians based in the USA have expressed…
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…

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