Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law

November 27, 2018

The Practice Of Freedom: Impunity, Justice, And The Law

11.27.2018| 5:00 – 6:30 PM | Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, Berkeley Law

with Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, 2008-2014 And Judge On The International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

Judge Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay will speak to her work spanning the struggle for freedom in South Africa, on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, on the International Criminal Court, and as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

April 26, 2024

India Elections 2024: Hindu Nationalism, Ayodhya, and Dispossession

04.26.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)

with

Angana P. Chatterji (Founding Co-Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley Thomas Blom Hansen (Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair, Stanford University) Audrey Truschke (Professor and Asian Studies Director, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers...

Angana P. Chatterji awarded 5-year $1.1 M grant

December 1, 2024

ANNOUNCEMENT | December 1, 2024

Center for Race and Gender (CRG) anthropologist and interdisciplinary South Asia scholar Angana P. Chatterji has been awarded a five-year grant of $1,125,000 in recognition and support of her research, scholarship, and public-facing work to uphold social justice.

Chatterji, Founding Chair of the...

Anatomy of Unbelonging: Hindutva Citizenship and Muslim Dispossession

April 3, 2024

The self-ministered deification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya and the nationalisation of prejudicial citizenship both signal the erasure of the Muslim from Hindu-India, portentous of the unfolding grotesque.

Unchecked by Consequences, a New Authoritarianism Is Unfolding in India

April 4, 2023

The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.

The Narendra Modi-led government’s drive to remake India as a Hindu nationalist state has instigated states...

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves

July 29, 2022

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves

UN OHCHR statement premised on findings in BURIED EVIDENCE: 2,700 unmarked and mass graves containing more than 2,940 bodies in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Graves Report: http://www.kashmirprocess.org/reports/graves/01Front.html

Kashmir: A Place Without Rights

August 5, 2020

“One year ago today, India revoked Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status. It is a place of no rights, shackled in concertina wire, suffocating in a state of interminable lockdown.”

Angana Chatterji, Research Anthropologist and Co-chair of CRG’s Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, authored an article that was released today for Just Security, titled “Kashmir: A Place Without Rights.”

Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss

August 13, 2019

Tariq Ali of New York Review quoted CRG Research ScholarAngana Chatterji(Co-Chair,Political Conflict, Gender, & People’s Rights) in a recent article about Kashmir.

Rule of the majority

September 27, 2019

Frontline writer Shaikh Mujibur Rehman reviewed Angana Chatterji’s (Co-chairPolitical Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) co-authored book, Majoritarian State

USCIRF Spotlight Podcast “Religion, Law and Citizenship In Assam, India”

September 2, 2021

Weekly podcast series called “USCIRF Spotlight” hosted by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body. Click here to listen to the episode.

RELIGION, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP IN ASSAM, INDIA
SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

For the past two years, USCIRF has recommended that India be designated a Country of Particular of Concern (CPC) by the State Department due the government’s promotion of Hindu...