TIME (NPT | UTC+5:45)

AGENDA*

08:45 – 09:15

Registration

09:15 – 09:30

Exhibition Opening 

09:30 – 09:50

Opening Remarks

Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières South Asia

09:50 – 10:30

Keynote Address:

Aarathi Krishnan, Founder and Executive Director, RAKSHA Intelligence Futures

10:30 – 11:45

11:45 - 13:15

Panel One

Shared Responsibility & Crisis of Legitimacy

Theme: Examining accountability and legitimacy in humanitarian crises

Moderator: Tammam Aloudat - CEO of the New Humanitarian

Vincent Bernard, Lecturer, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Emily Tannock, Lecturer, Deakin University

Neve Gordon, Professor of Human Rights Law, QMUL

13:15 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:30

A Talk

14:30 – 15:40

Panel Two:

Law, Politics, Denial - Sexual and Reproductive Health in Crisis Settings

Theme: Addressing SRH challenges in conflict and crisis contexts across South Asia

Moderator: Prabina Bajracharya, Director Asia, Center for Reproductive Rights

Seema Ghani, Vice President, AFGA Governing Board

Melissa Upreti, Human Rights Expert

Roshmi Goswami, Feminist Human Rights Activist

Sophie Desoulieres, Head of OSCAR, Médecins Sans Frontières OCA

15:40 – 16:00

High Tea

16:00 – 16:40

Panel Three- Grassroots and South-South Solidarity

Theme: Building solidarity networks and grassroots movements across the Global South

Moderator: Leena Menghaney

Shalmali Guttal, Former Executive Director, Focus on the Global South

Pradeepa Jeeva, Vice President, Global Fund for Women

Dr Unni Karunakara, Former Médecins Sans Frontières President

16:40 – 16:50

Closing Remarks

*Subject to change