The Drik Library held a photo exhibition entitled “Searching for Kalpana” on 12 June 2013 at Drik Gallery in Dhaka. The exhibition was a photo-forensic study on the disappearance of Kalpana Chakma on 12 June 1996. Using extensive research and photographic and forensic techniques, Shahidul Alam and Saydia Gulrukh have tried to produce tangible visuals of a scene that has been made invisible through the passage of time and to break a silence successive Bangladeshi governments have carefully nurtured for seventeen long years.
For further information, please contact Md. Foysal Ahmed, Team Leader, Gallery & event management, Drik Picture Library Limited, House # 58, Road # 15A(New), Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka – 1209 Bangladesh; ph (880 2) 8112954, 9120125, 8123412; fax (880 2) 9115044; e-mail: dadon@drik.net; gallery@drik.net; www.drik.net, www.chobimela.com
The May 18 Memorial Foundation is holding the May 18 Academy’s international course on 29 July to 15 August 2013 in Seoul and Gwanju. The May 18 Academy is an education/training program for domestic/international civil society activists working for human rights, democracy and peace. This call is for international participants for Academy 2 (previously known as the Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School till 2011). Academy 2 is a course for international civil society activists from countries around the world. It consists of programs to promote better understanding of Korean modern history and of commemoration events for democracy, human rights and peace movements. It is a three- week course with three categories of participants: Senior, Middle Manager and Junior.
For further information, please contact: The May 18 Memorial Foundation 5·18 Memorial Culture Hall, Seo-Gu, Naebangro 152 email: 518.org@gmail.com, 518folkschool@gmail.com, and soyheejeong@gmail.com; http://eng.518.org/index.es?sid=a5.
The 2nd Southeast Asia/Asia Pro Bono Conference and Workshop with the theme "Pro Bono Initiatives to Strengthen Access to Justice" will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on 11 - 12 October 2013. It will bring together academics, law students, lawyers, judges, pro bono professionals, policy makers, civil society and non-profit representatives to consider the multifarious ways pro bono initiatives can strengthen access to justice in Southeast Asia and internationally. The conference and workshop will be an exciting mix of keynote speech, panel discussion, poster presentations and interactive workshop sessions. There will be lots of opportunity for participation, collaboration and dialogue. The sessions will showcase selected, timely and innovative pro bono partnerships and provide a unique space for participants to collaborate in order to improve access to justice for some of the region's most marginalized communities.
For further information, please contact: Wendy Morrish, BABSEA CLE 8 Soi 6, Tanon Suandok T. Suthep, A Muang Chiangmai 50200 Thailand; ph (662) 1439567; e-mail: probono@babseacle.org; www.babseacle.org
The Asian Human Rights and Drug Policy Program (AHRDP) Course will be held on 30 September – 11 October 2013 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.
Applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, research staff in universities and other institutions and professionals from the field of Public Health. (Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.)
For more information, please contact: HIV ATLAS, D 115, Okhla Phase 1, New Delhi 110020 India; e-mail: jsph@jnu.edu.in.