Conveners

Angana Chatterji
Angana Chatterji is an anthropologist and historian of the present. Dr. Chatterji is the Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir. Dr. Chatterji has worked on public lands reform and issues of majoritarian nationalism and social violence in Orissa, and issues of militarization and gendered violence in Kashmir. Chatterji served on the faculty at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, from 1997-2011. Chatterji's recent writings include: Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa (Three Essays Collective, 2009); Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival (in press); a co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (Zubaan, 2011); a co-contributed anthology with Tariq Ali and Arundhati Roy et al., Kashmir: The Case for Freedom (Verso, 2011); and the report, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir (2009), for which she was the lead author.

http://www.anganachatterji.net


Parvez Imroz
Parvez Imroz is a human rights lawyer. Mr. Imroz is the Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir. He is the founding President of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society. Imroz also co-founded the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in 1994. Imroz was the eleventh recipient of the Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize by Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France and the European Bar Human Rights Institute. In 2009, he was a contributing author for the report, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir.

http://www.jkccs.org/


Gautam Navlakha
Mr. Navlakha works with the Economic and Political Weekly and is a human rights defender.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/03/stories/2006040315080300.htm
http://waf.gn.apc.org/journal8p20.htm



Zaheer-Ud-Din
Mr. Zaheer-Ud-Din is chief editor of Daily Etalat and vice president of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.

http://www.jkccs.org/

Legal Counsel

Mihir Desai
Advocate Desai is practising in the Mumbai High Court and the Supreme Court of India, and co-founder of the Indian People's Tribunal.

http://www.combatlaw.org/author.php?author_id=83
http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2003/554/

Tribunal Liaison

Khurram Parvez
Mr. Parvez is programme coordinator for the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.

http://www.reebok.com/static/global/initiatives/rights/text-only/awards/recipients/parvez.html

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