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Studio Nilima members, Abantee Dutta and Pushpanjali Medhi attended the widely acclaimed Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative in London from June 3-5, 2019. The theme for this year was ‘Rethinking the “Regional” in Refugee Law and Policy’, the theme reflected how a host of ‘regional’ questions loom large for refugee protection in 2019. The conference theme interrogated the role of regional refugee law and policy in light of refugee movements and shifting politics of today’s world. The keynote presentations are available as podcasts and can be accessed via the link: https://rli.sas.ac.uk/resources/podcasts

Studio Nilima in a joint initiative with Axom Xahitya Xabha and Nanda Talukdar Foundation organised a democratic dialogue between various civil society stakeholders on the post National Register of Citizens (NRC) scenario in Assam. The roundtable titled "Assam after NRC: Quest for Knowledge" was held on August 25, 2019 at Bhagawati Prasad Barua Bhawan at Guwahati, Assam and was attended by 23 stakeholders and experts.  Moderated by Mr. Nilay Dutta, President, Studio Nilima and Mr. Mrinal Talukdar, Secretary, Nanda Talukdar Foundation, the event saw a cross section of unanimous and divergent opinions on issues such as law and order implications after the publication of National Register of Citizens (NRC), detention procedures, rights of the indigenous.. Read More DetailedProceedings.pdf