Panos South Asia, with its headquarters in Kathmandu, is part of the family of Panos Institutes worldwide that encourage and facilitate public discourse and debate on a wide range of issues.
Treatment & Care : For People living with HIV/AIDS
Monitoring & Evaluation: Work in Progress
Panos South Asia announces South Asia Climate Change Award (SACCA) Fellows, 2013
This year’s twenty four awardees have been selected by a panel of experts after careful consideration of nearly seventy applications from all forms of media from six countries in South Asia. Weightage for selection was given to form of media, gender and language to ensure a judicious mix. PSA’s SACCA fellowships are being offered as part of a Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) project for enhancing climate change awareness and understanding among journalists in South Asia. The project, which is currently in its second phase, has already produced several quality outputs across the region on Climate change–related issues.
Panos South Asia's research on Globalisation and Labour in
the subcontinent Panos South Asia's project on
Globalisation and Labour involved extensive research by eminent academicians
into specific issues that impinge on the livelihoods of people in the
subcontinent due to globalisation. The focus countries of the research were
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.The research and its analytical findings
have been compiled into PSA's latest book, " Globalisation and Labour in South
Asia. Read This
Book ...More>>
Panos South Asia announces Research fellowships on Women's Reproductive health issues
Panos South Asia's Nepal Country Office is offering four Research Fellowships to qualified journalists from print and broadcast media in Nepal. The fellowship, which is supported by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), will seek to enhance the capacity of the journalists to include a rights-based perspective in their reporting on women's reproductive health issues. Successful candidates will participate in an orientation program and training sessions in Kathmandu, followed by a field trip and a two-month long research and writing period. An attractive fellowship will be provided to meet all the costs related to the research. Last date for receipt of applications is FEBRUARY 26th, 2013
Panos South Asia at the 11th CoP on
Biodiversity. Panos South Asia in association with the Forum of
Environmental Journalists in India and the National Biodiversity Authority organised
an interactive event at the Conference of Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity on 9th October, 2012 in Hyderabad. The theme was “Valuing
Biodiversity: an interactive dialogue with the media.Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati,
Chairman, NBA, Dr. William Dar, Director General ICRISAT and S. Faizi, Board
Member, CBD Alliance spoke on various aspects of biodiversity and the need
for media to understand and report on these issues.
...More>>
Panos
South Asia’s book on Dalit Women’s Health and Human rights published in
Hindi The exclusive focus of the book is on
Dalit women, the most affected and doubly oppressed by both caste and
patriarchy. It brings together the best outputs of the Panos South Asia
fellowships on Dalit women’s health and human rights, perspectives from eminent
writers on Dalit issues and the work of leading academics who have been engaging
with the subject The book has been edited and introduced by Dr. Imrana Qadeer
and published by Penguin Books India. ...More>>
Panos-CMS Young Environment Journalists Awards 2011 presented Panos South Asia in association with CMS has announced the Panos- CMS Young Environment journalists Awards for the year 2011.Soma Basu of The Statesman, Kolkata is the winner in the print category and Manu C Kumar of Manorama News, Mumbai is the winner in the Electronic Media category. The awards which includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each were presented to the winners at the inaugural ceremony of the CMS-Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife film festival,on December 6th at New Delhi.The awards are presented for excellence in environmental journalism to individuals who have done "exemplary investigative and inspired reporting on environment issues in the country" ...More>>
Panos South Asia hosts its ninth Media Gatekeepers’
retreat at Chateau Jemeppe, Belgium PSA’s 2010 Media Gatekeepers’ retreat which brought together Editors
from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan deliberated on the topic ‘No progress
beyond ‘Lakshman Rekha ‘ in Kashmir. The discussants included Bharat
Bhushan, Anant Nath,Siddharth Varadarajan, Surya Gangadharan and Om Thanvi
from India; Shahir Zahine, Dr Hussain Yasa and Danish Karokhel from
Afghanistan; Azhar Abbas, Zahid Hussain and Khalid Hameed Farooqi from Pakistan.
The event which took place on October 2nd and 3rd was moderated by Kanak Mani
Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian ...More>>
Panos South Asia collates a book of Oral testimonies of Positive People The Oral testimony tool uses the power of storytelling to bring neglected subjects to the fore and give a platform for voices and perspectives which are often rendered voiceless in the public sphere. These testimonies will also facilitate development of a training kit to aid prograame implementers to work towards inclusive HIV/AIDS policies ...More>>