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Call for Nominations for the 2012 Meeto Memorial Award: ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) and Sangat, a South Asian feminist network, are now inviting nominations for the Meeto Memorial Award for the year 2012. The Award comprises of Indian Rupees one lakh, a citation and a memento. The recipients of the Award will be chosen by a selection committee whose decision will be final. Click here for the brochure and the nomination formNomination Form MMA 2012.

Call for applications for Sangat’s South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace: We are pleased to announce Sangat’s 17th South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace, 4th September – 5th October 2012. Dhulikhel, Nepal.

Sangat India Gathering & Intergenerational Feminist Dialogues: The three day gathering of women activists who have attended the Sangat courses in the last 30 years and the Inter-generational Feminist Dialogue organized by Sangat, Jagori and the National Alliance of Women (NAWO- Orissa) was held on the campus of Gram Vikas in Mohuda village, Berhampur, Orissa from August 6-9th 2011.

Azra Jafari wins Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians 2011: The Meeto Memorial Award Trust, Rozan and Sungi are pleased to honour Azra Jafari as the winner of the Meeto Memorial Award 2011.

AMAN, Pakistan's peace band: Sangat congratulates Benish Patress, a Sangat alumna from Lahore, Pakistan, for the launch of AMAN, a peace band.

South Asian Women's Day 2010: Initiated by Sangat and its network of women and men in the year 2002 as part of the International Fortnight against Violence against Women (25th November—10th December), the South Asian Women’s Day is being marked by an increasing number of students, activists and civil society members all over the region.

Akeela Naz wins Meeto Memorial Award 2010: A young farmer from Pakistan, Akeela Naz, wins the South Asian award for her social commitment and tireless work for the rights of landless farmers in Punjab, Pakistan.

Yet another successful South Asian course concludes: Sangat is obliged to its donors, friends, partners and last but not the least the participants for making this year’s training a big success you. Hope that your cooperation and our solidarity continues!

Sangat celebrates decades of feminist learning and solidarity: Some of South Asia’s finest and most well-known women’s and human rights activists, intellectuals and artists gathered at the Bangladesh Shilpkala Academy to celebrate decades of work by Sangat, one of the oldest feminist capacity-building networks in South Asia

Sangat (India) boards RESERVATION EXPRESS, a nation-wide campaign for the Women’s Reservation Bill: To garner public support and mobilize political will, as many a 200 civil society and women’s organisations from all over India have joined Reservation Express in support of the Indian Women’s Reservation Bill that is to be passed in its present form in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies

An assembly towards a union of South Asian peoples: Some 300 people from across South Asia from social movements, civil society organisations, labour unions, peasant organisations, women’s groups, ecologists and human rights activists gathered in New Delhi from 20th April to 23rd April, 2010 as part of the process of a ‘Peoples SAARC’ to forge a vision for a union of South Asian peoples'.

Sangat felicitates four women activists; celebrates Women’s Day with a ballet: To celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day and decades of South Asian women’s solidarity, four civil society groups – Asmita, Jagori, Kriti and Sangat – joined hands to honour four courageous women activists who have challenged different patriarchal traditions and religious norms that have oppressed women.

South Asian Women's Day 2009: To forge in women across South Asia a common identity as South Asians and as women facing similar patriarchy-related concerns, to pledge for peace, justice, human rights and democracy and to celebrate our respective achievements, women from different South Asian countries decided in 2002 to celebrate 30th November as South Asian Women’s Day.

The Meeto Memorial Award for young South Asians 2009: To commemorate the brief but brilliant life of Meeto or Kamaljit Bhasin-Malik (1978-2006), a scholar, activist and dancer, Meeto’s mother, Kamla Bhasin has decided to institute an award in her memory to honour young South Asians whose work demonstrates a commitment to communal harmony, peace, justice and human rights.