Conveners

Parvez Imroz
Parvez Imroz is a human rights lawyer. Mr. Imroz Co-founded and 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. Zahir-Ud-Din is a founding member of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society. A senior journalist, he is author of numerous publications and the Executive Editor of Daily Alsafa, an Urdu newspaper. Previously Mr. Zahir-Ud-Din served as the Associate Editor of Greater Kashmir and Editor of Daily Etala'at. In 2009, he was a contributing author for the report, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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Convener - 2008-2012

Angana Chatterji
Angana Chatterji is an anthropologist and historian of the present. Dr. Chatterji Co-founded and was the Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir between April 2008 and December 2012. Dr. Chatterji's work focuses on issues of human rights, gendered violence, and cultural survival. She has worked on public lands reform and issues of majoritarian nationalism and social violence in Orissa, and issues of issues of conflict and militarization as they contravene human rights 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, 2012); a co-contributed anthology with Tariq Ali and Arundhati Roy et al., on Kashmir (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


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. Khurram Parvez is a human rights activist. Mr. Parvez is the Liaison for the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir and the Programme Coordinator for the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society. Parvez is the recipient of the 2006 Reebok Human Rights Award. In 2009, he was a contributing author for the report, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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

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