BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1311862.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011013Z DESCRIPTION:\n In response to the public health crisis of COVID\, India has imposed one of the most stringent and ill prepared lockdowns in the world\ , leading to a humanitarian disaster. Over 700 people have died unrelated to the virus but due to distress directly caused by the lockdown\, such as hunger. Even as the state has flexed its executive muscle\, activating po lice forces to enforce the lockdown with excessive force it has receded fr om the space of welfare and wellbeing. It has left \;millions of migra nt workers stranded in big cities forced to walk back to their homes thous ands of miles away. Red flags have also been raised about contact tracing methods\, via the Arogya Setu app\, being used instead to further build up the surveillance state. The speakers will bring light to this urgent huma nitarian and democratic crisis from their experiences rooted in rural comm unities and courts\, even as the peak of the public health crisis looms la rge up ahead.\n\n\n\n \n Nikhil Dey | Founding Member Mazdoor Kisan Shakti S angathan (Workers and Farmers Union)\n \n \n Vrinda Grover | Human Rights Adv ocate\n \n \n Erica Chenoweth (co-moderator) \;| Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \; \n \n \n Inayat Sabhikhi (co-moderator) | Topol Fellow\, Carr Center for Huma n Rights\, Harvard Kennedy School \;\n \n\n\n\n Nikhil Dey is a social a ctivist and founding member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan and the co-convenor of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information. He has been a member of the Central and State Employment Guarantee Councils of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act. \;He has been invo lved in struggles of the poor for justice\, including grass root struggles for land and the payment of minimum wages. He has also been a part of MKS S’s lead role in larger campaigns - most notably for the Right to Work and the Right to Food\, and the protection of human rights guaranteed under t he Indian Constitution. His contributions via the MKSS have been foundatio nal in thinking of democratic accountability via social audits and social accountability. He was a core member of the taskforce set by the Comptroll er and Auditor General of India that developed national social audit stand ards. An envoy to the Open Government Partnership\, he was on the steering committee from 2011 - 2014.\n\n\n\n Vrinda Grover is one of India's most w ell-known human rights lawyers and activists. The focus of Vrinda's litiga tion and research has been to interrogate the impunity of the state for hu man rights violations. Some of the cases that she appeared in and which le d to landmark victories or substantially advanced human rights jurispruden ce include the conviction of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of Ut tar Pradesh for the targeted custodial killing of the Muslims of Hashimpur a\, the Maruti workers struggle\, the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case\, a PIL challenging the longest internet blockage in Kashmir. She has also re presented victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom\, adivasi leader Soni Sori\ , the Bhima Koregaon accused activists\, gang rape survivors of Kandhamal\ , Muzaffarnagar targeted attack on minorities\, victims of Hapur mob lynch ing\, and death row convict in Nirbhaya case.\n\n\n\n Erica Chenoweth is th e Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Ha rvard Kennedy School and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at th e Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She stud ies political violence and its alternatives. Chenoweth’s next book\, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford\, 2020)\, explores what c ivil resistance is\, how it works\, why it sometimes fails\, how violence and repression affect it\, and the long-term impacts of such resistance.\n \n\n\n Inayat Sabhikhi \;is associated with the citizens’ campaigns for the Right to Food\, and the National Campaign for People’s Right to Infor mation in India. At the Harvard Kennedy School she is doing the Master’s i n Public Administration and is a fellow at the Center for Public Leadershi p\n\n\n\n Virtual Event Details:This event will be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registered for this event (link below) will receive a remi nder for the livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link to the YouTube page where you can participate in the live chat and ask qu estions during the event.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200617T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200617T131500 LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T134631Z LOCATION:Virtual Webinar (Registration Required) SUMMARY:India’s COVID Democracy Crisis: Lockdown of Labour and Liberties URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/india%E2%80%99s-covid -democracy-crisis-lockdown-labour-and-liberties END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR