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Public Lecture: ‘Ekta Parishad: A People’s Movement' by Rajagopal PV, President & Founding Member of Ekta Paishad, India

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Location: B1.16, WBS Scarman Road

Global Governance GRP & the Centre for Human Rights in Practice are delighted to announce a public lecture by Rajagopal PV, the founder of what is now Indiaʼs largest nonviolent land rights organisation.

Ekta Parishad (Unity Forum) is almost twenty five years old and draws its membership from tribal and landless farmers, Rajagopal has gained international recognition for his persistent, Gandhian-inspired activism, a mix of walking and negotiation, to significantly change Indiaʼs national policy on land distribution. Under his leadership, Ekta Parishad which currently has about 200,000 followers, has organised several mass marches (padyatra), the first in 1999/2000, as a way for marginalised people to highlight their situation, their rights, and to attract the attention of media, policy-makers and the general public. In 2012 the Jan Satyagraha (the People’s March for Justice) saw 100,000 march from Gwailor to Delhi. It provoked legislative changes in favour of the landless. This year Ekta Parishad was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by UK and American Quakers.

Rajagopal will be speaking on the history of Ekta Parishad, its strategies and achievements and its future plans. For further details see our poster for the event or read more about Ekta Parishad in Lacuna Magazine

If you would like to attend this lecture, please register here or email U.Martin@warwick.ac.uk

 

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