Dalits - Real Issues & Discussion

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http://www.rfkmemorial.org/CENTER/VIA_6_04.pdf

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Martin Macwan (2000 - India)
Martin’s Support Group (SG) held its first meeting in Boston on June 21st. Martin
updated the group on recent developments at Navsarjan and the group had a chance to
discuss the progress on the Water Justice and Information Management projects. Dr.
Stam is currently drafting sample surveys to be conducted at the village and individual
levels throughout the 3100 villages within which Navsarjan is working. With the
information gathered, Navsarjan will be able to track the efficacy of their campaigns and
also monitor human rights conditions amongst Dalits.
In another Support Group project, Dr. Susan Murcott from MIT traveled to Navsarjan in
June to conduct a technical assessment for the Water Justice project. She visited several
city waste sites, the Environmental and Sanitation center and the Gandhi ashram to
explore engineering solutions to eliminating manual scavenging in Gujarat. Support
Group members, Drs. Rajagopal and Murcott, are going to finalize a comprehensive
project implementation framework for the Water Justice project upon Dr. Murcott’s
return from India.
Nupur Sinha spent the month of June in Washington, DC attending the American
University Law School’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. At
Martin’s request, CHR had facilitated Ms. Sinha’s attendance as a means to further
international human rights training for Navsarjan’s legal partners. Ms. Sinha is the
executive director of the Center for Social Justice (CSJ). After completing a course, she
and a CHR staff member met with several organizations to share lessons from their
respective work (in the area of gender, prisoners’ rights and paralegal organizations).
Ms. Sinha also traveled to Boston with a CHR staff member to meet with Drs. Rajagopal
and Stam (SG members) to discuss CSJ’s new paralegal institute and the SG’s projects.
Finally, Ms. Sinha spoke with Smita Narula (SG member) about a possible collaboration
between CSJ and the NYU Human Rights clinic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Whow is this Dr Rajagopal ? The one from Promise for India ??