SASNET Panel Discussion: "Women's Rights in South Asia"

Join us for a public SASNET panel discussion exploring the current state of women’s rights across South Asia. Leading experts will discuss key challenges, recent developments, and the future of gender equality across the region. What progress has been made, and what obstacles remain?

The panel discussion will include topics such as legal and political rights, socioeconomic challenges, and gender-based violence and safety. The panelists will represent different countries in the region, including India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan. The panelists are:

Nitasha Kaul 
Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (UK).

Kate Lonergan
Postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (UHGS), Uppsala University, with a research focus on reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence and atrocities.

Radha Adhikari 
Dr. Lecturer at the School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland (UK).

Maryam Safi 
Research Fellow at the Afghanistan Programme, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

All welcome! 

This event is a SASNET collaboration with the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF).