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The World Health Assembly (WHA) is an annual gathering of Ministers of Health, health leaders and delegations from all 193 United Nations Member States. In addition to official WHA plenary and committee meetings, there are also many events held on the sidelines of WHA.

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Background
At its 41st Session in February 2010, the United Nations Statistical Commission proposed celebrating 20 October 2010 as World Statistics Day (<a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/statisticsday/decision41-109.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decision 41/109</a>).

Acknowledging that the production of reliable, timely statistics and indicators of countries’ progress is indispensable for informed policy decisions and monitoring implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, the General Assembly adopted on 3 June 2010 <a href="http://undocs.org/A/RES/64/267&amp;lang=E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution 64/267</a>, which officially designated 20 October 2010 as the <a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first-ever World Statistics Day</a> under the general theme “Celebrating the many achievements of official statistics.”

In 2015, with <a href="https://undocs.org/a/res/69/282" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution 96/282</a>, the General Assembly decided to designate 20 October 2015 as <a href="https://worldstatisticsday.org/blog.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the second World Statistics Day</a> under the general theme “Better data, better lives,” as well as to celebrate World Statistics Day every five years on 20 October.

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Data for public good

World Statistics Day 2025

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hear from Professor Samita Sen (University of Cambridge) on the class, gender, domestic workers and unions. This annual lecture is hosted by the King's India Institute, as part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, for the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS).
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following Convention 189 (2011) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), domestic workers have emerged as a significant category of workers and as subjects of both women&rsquo;s and workers&rsquo; politics. They have posed challenging questions of class and gender, which the mainstream in both these movements have found difficult to answer.&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While there has been considerable associational activity in different parts of the world, there are also new and emerging challenges.&nbsp; In the Indian context, associations of domestic workers, few and small no doubt, are demanding the status of trade unions.&nbsp; This is a dynamic moment and both working conditions, as well as movements, are being continually redefined.&nbsp; It is in this context Professor Sen seeks to explore the workers relationship with and responses to attempts at collectivization.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Samita Sen's (<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/samita-sen"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cambridge University</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) research looks at gender and labour. Her monograph, Women and Labour in Late Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 1999) won the Trevor Reese Prize in Commonwealth History.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her specialisation is colonial South Asia but she has also done contemporary and interdisciplinary research on issues such as domestic violence and labour in the informal sector.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has been active in the women&rsquo;s movement in India and internationally, and participated in both the governmental and non-governmental fora of the Beijing Conference (1995). She has been a member of a Calcutta-based voluntary association of women, Sachetana, since 1983.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the British Association for South Asian Studies</h3>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.basas.org.uk/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the largest UK academic association for the study of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, and the South Asian diaspora.

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In-Person

King's College London

Gender Equity

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

English

Maids in movement: Unionising domestic workers in India

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">India is a global agricultural powerhouse and is among the major producer and exporter of many agricultural commodities. Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58% of India&rsquo;s population.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pesticides, the major product of the agrochemicals industry have been used worldwide to keep a check on production losses due to pests. Thus, protection against production losses and yield enhancement from the judicious use of agrochemicals can be one of the important factors in increasing agricultural productivity and production.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FICCI is organizing the 11th edition of Agrochemicals Conference on 23rd June 2022 from 1000 hrs to 1730 hrs at Hotel Taj Palace , New Delhi with the theme &ldquo;Policy landscape for a flourishing Agrochemicals Industry&rdquo;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conference will have the likely presence of senior officials from the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation &amp; Farmers Welfare, Government of India, captains from the industry, farmers, academicians across the globe. The conference will be a platform to bring together all the stakeholders of the sector and exchange their ideas to take the sector to the next highest level.
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Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

Agriculture

Food Access &amp; Security

11th Agrochemicals Conference Theme : Policy landscape for a flourishing Agrochemicals Industry

<div style="box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid #e1e1e1;">Various economies across the globe are moving towards inclusion and for an economic development to be truly inclusive, it is critical that all sections of the society become a part of the overall growth trajectory and feel empowered- both economically and socially. FICCI has a Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion that steers its agenda towards ensuring that India Inc embraces D&amp;I with inclusive work practices and organizational policies that support gender diversity, inclusion of people with disabilities as well as representation from the LGBTQI+ community. Under the aegis of this taskforce, FICCI will organize the 1st D&amp;I Conclave on July 6-7, 2022 at Hotel, The Lalit, New Delhi. The event will facilitate deliberations on D&amp;I pertinent areas such as building diverse and inclusive workplaces, addressing biases, ensuring accessibility, legal rights and safety at work, role of India Inc., best practices, allyship, mental health and many interesting fireside chats as well as inspirational chats. Senior government officials, Industry leaders, policy influencers, professionals, CHROs, CSOs, D&amp;I experts etc from India and abroad are being invited to participate at this important forum.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing: border-box; zoom: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid #e1e1e1;">The theme of the D&amp;I Conclave is &lsquo;India@75- Being Diverse, Inclusive and Better for all&rsquo;. With 75 years of India&rsquo;s independence, we cannot afford to exclude vulnerable sections of the society from the mainstream economy. We want to make every effort possible to ensure that the diverse sections of the society are empowered and included in all aspects- be it education, digital, financial, employment, culture or society; leaving no one behind.</div>
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Entrepreneuership

Economic Growth

1st D&I Conclave

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water is the source of life - an essential for all human activities, however, with increasing agriculture, commercialization, rapid population explosion and changing consumption patterns, the need for water, especially clean water, is at an all-time high.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The global water industry is one of the most important industries in the world. It not only provides drinking water and wastewater services to the global population but also supplies the industrial and agricultural sectors. Pressure on the water industry is expected to increase in the coming years as climate change shrinks water availability worldwide and populations continue to grow.

Ocean Conservation

Sustainable Cities &amp; Communities

Water Sanitation &amp; Hygiene

Water & Plumb Skills Expo 2022

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annapoorna - ANUFOOD India will be held in Mumbai, India. The event is the most important B2B platform for food &amp; beverage trade and retail market in the Indian subcontinent. The show is jointly organized by Koelnmesse YA Tradefair Pvt. Ltd. and Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 15th edition of Annapoorna - ANUFOOD India, by its increasing quality in the exhibitors and visitors has paved its way as the most sought- after trade fair in India and the neighbouring region.
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Hindi

Annapoorna - ANUFOOD India

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Historian and bestselling author William Dalrymple will speak about his latest book, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company. This annual lecture is hosted by The School of Global Affairs and King&rsquo;s Business School as part of the Chevening Financial Services Leadership Programme.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lecture will be chaired by <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/niraja-gopal-jayal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Niraja Jayal</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Avantha Chair, <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/kii"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King&rsquo;s India Institute</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Anatomy Museum.&nbsp;
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.512; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About William Dalrymple</h2>
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://williamdalrymple.com/biog"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William Dalrymple</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapucinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, and short listed for the Duke of Wellington medal for Military History, the Tata Book of the Year (Non-fiction) and the Historical Writers Association Book Award 2020. It was a Finalist for the Cundill Prize for History and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and Oxford. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President&rsquo;s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world&rsquo;s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.512; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the Chevening Financial Services Leadership Programme</h2>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/global-affairs"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Global Affairs</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">King&rsquo;s Business School</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, King&rsquo;s College London are proud to deliver the Chevening Financial Services Leadership Programme, a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office fellowship scheme for India, aimed at mid-career financial services professionals with demonstrable leadership potential.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Senior Leadership</h3>

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<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alex-preda"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Alexandru Preda</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Director), School of Business and Management
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<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/kriti-kapila"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr Kriti Kapila</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Director), King&rsquo;s India Institute
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History

The Anarchy

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roundtable with historians &amp;amp; art historians, discussing the connected histories between South &amp;amp; Southeast Asia along the spice trade routes.
<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 23pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About this event</h2>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SPEAKERS
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.southasia.upenn.edu/people/daud-ali">Daud Ali</a> is Associate Professor in South Asia Studies (@SouthAsiaPenn) at the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn), a historian of early medieval South Asia &amp; has researched/published on historical connections between South &amp; Southeast Asia.
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://williamdalrymple.com/">William Dalrymple</a> (@DalrympleWill) is a multi-award winning historian &amp; writer; his forthcoming book, 'The Golden Road', looks at the connected histories of South &amp; Southeast Asia, particularly those emanating from India.
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/vidya-dehejia">Vidya Dehejia</a> is Barbara Stoler Miller (Emerita) Professor of Indian &amp; South Asian Art in the Department of Art History &amp; Archaeology, Columbia University (@Columbia), and has published extensively on South &amp; Southeast Asian art.
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/elizabeth-lambourn/elizabeth-lambourn.aspx">Elizabeth Lambourn</a> is Professor of Material Histories, De Montfort University (@dmuleicester), and is an expert on Indian Ocean histories from AD 600-1500 on which she has published several monographs.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DISCUSSANT
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/about/academics/jeffrey-say">Jeffrey Say</a> is an art historian specialising in Singapore &amp; Southeast Asian art histories at LaSalle College of the Arts (@LASALLESG), Singapore.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHAIR
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<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-centre/people/nilanjan-sarkar">Nilanjan Sarkar</a> is Deputy Director, <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-centre">LSE South Asia Centre</a> (@SAsiaLSE)
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This event is in collaboration with <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/">LaSalle College of the Arts</a>, Singapore.
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South Asia Centre, London School of Economics

THE SPICE ROUTE: Connected Histories in South & Southeast Asia

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panel with Parwana Fayyaz (Cambridge), Rahman Arman (Indiana University), Elyas Alavi (Adelaide, Australia), Julie Ershadi (UCLA), and Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afghanistan through Afghan Voices<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a series of virtual workshops that highlights and critically engages with recent scholarship on one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. It aims to open an inclusive and multidisciplinary space where Afghan scholars and artists come together in conversation with broad audiences to publicly reflect on their research endeavors and creative trajectories. Monthly programs include Afghan artists from around the globe in dialogue with scholars of literature, art, and history; panels featuring conversations on visual culture and media; and poetry readings in Persian/Dari, Pashto, and English.

Stanford University Center for South Asia

Literature

Visual Arts

Inside/Outside the Line: Reading and Translating Afghan Poetry

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this webinar, prominent Pakistani khwajasira activist Mehrub Moiz Awan will be in conversation with curator, writer, and researcher Aziz Sohail. In the past five years the landscape of trans and queer activism and discourse in Pakistan has shifted considerably with historic Supreme Court rulings recognizing the rights of transgender citizens, and the 2018 Transgender Persons Act which established broad protections for trans rights. This has paralleled the increasing inclusion of trans* voices in the gender rights movement including Aurat March, as well as in cultural and media production in the country. The backlash and resultant visible violence has also been considerable. Awan has been at the forefront of this movement with many other collective individuals, making spaces for empowerment and visibility as well as centering decolonial, indigenous, and intersectional approaches and joy and celebration, even under great precarity.&nbsp; Awan will explore with Sohail both this complex history as well as future capacities of trans and queer organizing in Pakistan.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Mehrub Moiz Awan is a khwajasira* activist and global policy practitioner with a strong interest in institutional and governance reform in post-colonial states, and issues of gender and sexuality. Her methodology is transdisciplinary, and utilizes elements of human-centred design thinking, participatory ethnography, systems thinking, and econometrics. She has previously consulted for the World Bank, Washington DC, International Center for Research on Women, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. She has a Doctor of Medicine and obtained her Masters in Global Health Policy as a Fulbright scholar from The George Washington University, USA. Nowadays, she consults for national organizations and governments for evidence-based reform in multiple arenas. She is also featured on media frequently for her anti-colonial and progressive opinions.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Khwajasira is an indigenous South Asian gender-spirituality and gender-identity recognized by the Government of Pakistan as a gender separate from man and woman)
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">--
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aziz Sohail is an art curator, writer and researcher whose work is focused on building interdisciplinary connections and supporting new cultural and pedagogical infrastructures. Since 2020, with The Many Headed Hydra, he has been co-leading <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a language where yesterday are the same word. Kal, <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a trans*oceanic platform supporting practices enacting queer pasts/futures and decolonial ecologies. His current research is a meditation on the longue-duree intersections of sexuality and colonialism with migration, law and identity through the work of practitioners who navigate empire(s) and its afterlives.&nbsp;

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sohail has been part of residencies and workshops with The New Art Gallery Walsall, England (2015), Khoj, New Delhi (2018), the Nepal Picture Library (2019), and Maxim Gorki Theater, Germany (2019) and the ONE Archives, Los Angeles (2021-2022). His current practice is being supported by a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council (2019-2022). He has previously worked with organizations such as the British Council and the Lahore Biennale Foundation to build new cultural initiatives and spaces in Pakistan. As a South Asia Fellow at Cornell University in 2017, he began a long term project building an archive of cultural and visual production in Karachi from the 1990s through today which led to an exhibition-symposium co-organised with Bani Abidi at the Sharjah Art Foundation (2019).

The World That Belongs to Us: Contesting Queer & Trans* Politics in Pakistan

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indian democracy has long been hailed as an expression of hope and possibility for the postcolonial world. Beyond the tropes of the world&rsquo;s largest democracy, however, is the truth that India remains a deeply unequal society where millions must fight for their fundamental civic and socioeconomic rights, often in the face of a hostile State. How has the human rights landscape in India evolved over time? How has civil society fared under successive Indian Governments? What lies ahead for the country?&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join us for a conversation with Aakar Patel (Chair, Amnesty International India) and Meenakshi Ganguly (South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch), to understand the evolving human rights landscape in India on Wednesday, the 25th of May, from 6 &ndash; 7PM PST.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speakers:
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aakar Patel, Chair of the Amnesty International in India

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch

International Governance

Democracy and its Discontents: The State of Civil Society in India

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open Studio: Gauri Gill
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roberta Bowman Denning Visiting Artist
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford Art Gallery Building, Lower Level
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thursday and Friday, May 26 and 27, 11am - 5 pm PT
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reception: Friday, May 27, 3 - 5 pm PT
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The artist has requested that attendees watch this talk before coming by:
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://bampfa.org/event/artists-talk-gauri-gill"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://bampfa.org/event/artists-talk-gauri-gill</a>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gauri Gill is at Stanford this quarter as the inaugural fellow for the <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://arts.stanford.edu/office-of-the-vice-president-for-the-arts/visiting-artist-fund/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stanford Visiting Artist Fund in Honor of Roberta Bowman Denning</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her residency is supported by the Department of Art &amp; Art History and the Center for South Asia.
<a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.gaurigill.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gauri Gill</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&rsquo;s (MFA &rsquo;02) work sits at the intersection of documentary photography, fine art and theatrical performance. Grounded upon collaboration and long temporal duration, Gill&rsquo;s photographic projects are intimate portrayals of local communities and material traces that speak to collective experiences in an increasingly individualized and globalized world. While at Stanford, Gill is conducting reviews with senior students in photography, as well as working on book projects on her series, &ldquo;Acts of Appearance,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Fields of Sight,&rdquo; which comprise multi-year engagements with indigenous, rural artists. At her Open Studio, she will share the working process behind her practice, while also discussing living archival projects such as the 1984 notebooks.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gauri Gill (b. 1970 Chandigarh, India) is a Delhi-based photographer. She has exhibited within India and internationally including at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019; MoMA PS1, New York, 2018; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, 2017; Kochi Biennale, 2016 and Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 2016. Her work is in the collections of prominent institutions worldwide, and in 2011, she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada&rsquo;s foremost award for photography. Various ongoing projects highlight her sustained belief in collaboration and &lsquo;active listening&rsquo;, and in using photography as a memory practice. Gill&rsquo;s work addresses the Indian identity markers of caste, class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour; in it there is empathy, surprise, and a human concern over issues of survival. Additional information can be found at <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.gaurigill.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.gaurigill.com</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.

Closed Meeting

Open Studio: Gauri Gill, Denning Visiting Artist

<h5 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; background-color: #fafafa; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The identified focused theme for the 1st Capacity Building program is on "Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations 2020" which will be conducted on 21st May from 10.30-12.00 hrs [IST].</h5>
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<h5 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; background-color: #fafafa; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FSSAI has notified Food Safety and Standards (Labelling and Display) Regulations, 2020, prescribing the Labelling requirements of pre-packaged foods and display of essential information on premises where food is manufactured, processed, served and stored. The Regulations are in suppression of Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011 and Food Business Operators (FBOs) must comply with all the provisions of the Regulations from July 2022.</h5>
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<h5 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; background-color: #fafafa; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Food label is one of the main communication links between manufacturers and consumers. The existing FSS (Labelling and Display) regulation, is consumer oriented and aimed to give sufficient and relevant information to the consumer and promote the healthy choices and habits. The regulation also emphasizes to enable consumers to make informed choices about the food they purchased from market, restaurants and e commerce. The FSSAI has also reconciled its Labelling Laws with the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules which operate in general domain of packaged products avoiding any room for ambiguity.</h5>
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CIFTI-FICCI Capacity Building Program on FSS (Labelling and Display) Regulation, 2020

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FICCI in association with ICC WCF International Certificate of Origin Council (ICOC) is organizing a Webinar on 'Why Should Chambers in India Provide eCO services and Join ICC International CO Chain' on Thursday, 26 May 2022.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The webinar aims to discuss the benefits of providing eCO services and join ICC WCF International CO Chain.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certificate of Origin (CO) is an important international trade document certifies that goods in a particular export shipment are wholly obtained, produced, manufactured or processed in a particular country. They declare the &lsquo;nationality&rsquo; of the product and also serve as a declaration by the exporter to satisfy customs or trade requirements.
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Webinar on Why Should Chambers in India Provide eCO services and Join ICC International CO Chain

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FICCI is organizing a Webinar on May 27, 2022 for Automobile Industry where Generators as well as commercial &amp; industrial consumers will share their experience of supplying/availing renewable energy power and its benefits including cost reduction followed by interactive consultation with stakeholder&rsquo;s present.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A major transition is underway in the power sector where governments, corporates and other stakeholders are in action to decarbonize the electricity generation in coming decades. The industrial and commercial segments consume about half of the electricity produced, which means that the businesses can play an essential part in enabling the structural shift to clean power in India. A consumer with bulk load can avail the benefits of cheap and green renewable power which gives a high return on investment and a secure financial future for business owners.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many Automobile companies in India have already committed to adopt green energy as well as are looking for opportunities to reduce their operating costs by procuring cheap power. This webinar will help the companies in understanding the trend of adoption of renewable energy and the potential of renewable energy solutions for automobile companies.
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