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Panels:

• Peace Initiative Between India and Pakistan, August 18, 2003
• Religious Fundamentalism In South Asia
• The Military Coup And Prospects For Democracy In Pakistan

Speakers:

• Thomas Kocherry, trade-unionist, National Fishworkers' Forum and National Alliance of People's Movements, India
• Tapan Bose, filmmaker and peace activist, Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy
• Nighat Said Khan, feminist author, academic and activist, Institute of Women's Studies, Lahore
• Shabnam Hashmi, Indian anti-communal human rights activist, SAHMAT
• Fr. Bonnie Mendes, Pakistani community organizer and human rights activist

Film Screenings:

• Strangers at Home: Experiences of South Asian and Indigenous Peoples - A film screening and discussion, January 9, 2004
• Regent Park Film Festival, October 1-3, 2004 & November 20-22, 2003
• Mr. and Mrs. Iyer : A film screening and discussion, York University, November 19, 2003
• U.A.I.L. GO BACK and discussion with filmmaker Angad Bhalla, August 6, 2003
• Words on Water and discussion with film maker Sanjay Kak, May 2003
• Gujarat: Laboratory of Hindu Rashtra Fascism and discussion with director Suma Josson, March 2003
• Fisheries: Beyond the Crisis
• M. S. Sathyu's Garam Hawa
• Anand Patwardhan's In the Name of God
• Dristi South Asian Film Festival, May 2001

Workshops at The Toronto Social Forum, March 2003:

• Building Alternatives: Democratic Decentralization And Self-Sustaining Markets In Kerala, India
• Showcasing South Asian Documentary Film Making
• Sharing Asian Experiences Of Globalization: Mobilizing Towards A Solidarity Network

Activism and Participation:

• Participation in the campaign against the establishment of Sharia Tribunals in Canada:

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  Click arrow to review a synopsis of the panel discussion on Sharia tribunals in Canada and Women's Rights, hosted by the International Campaign for Defense of Women's Rights in Iran on March 7, 2004.

• Vigil and Public Meetings to condemn the communal carnage in Gujarat, March-April 2002
• Forum to oppose Bill C-36, December 2001
• South Asian Youth Activist Camp, August 2001
• Participation in organizing the Rebuilding the Left conference, October 2000
• Media intervention into the attempt to censor the Toronto exhibition Dust on the Road containing works by Indian and Canadian artists in support of secularism and human rights, Summer 2000