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1.35 - 2.00 pm: Keynote address:Mr Ved Marwah,Former Governor, Jharkhand

and Manipur

2.00 - 2.45 pm Panel:

Mr Prakash Singh, Former Director General, Border SecurityForce; Lt Gen V N Patankar, Indian Army; Col. Shiam

Vidurupola, Formerly with the Sri Lankan Army and presently

with OHCHR, Nepal

2.45 - 3:30 pm Discussion

Panel two: Legislative and Judicial Practices

3.30 - 3.35 pm: Chairperson:Mr Lalit Bhasin

3.35 - 4.20 pm: Panel:

Ms Shirani Goonatilleke, Director, Secretariat for Coordinating the

Peace Process, Government of Sri Lanka; Mr Ranjan Kumar,Advocate, New Delhi; Mr Mohammad Akmal Wasim, SeniorAdvocate and Former Assistant Advocate General, Sindh

4.20 - 5.05 pm: Discussion

7.30 pm Dinner

March 16, 2007

Panel Three: Human Rights Monitoring

09.30 - 09.35 am: Chairperson:Justice Nasir Zahid, former Judge, Supreme Court

of Pakistan

09.35 - 10.00 am: Keynote Address:Justice J S Verma, Former Chief Justice of

India and former Chairperson, National Human Rights

Commission of India

10.00 - 10.45 am: Panel:

Justice Shivraj Patil (TBC), Acting Chairperson, National HumanRights Commission of India; Prof Lokraj Baral, Executive

Chairman, Nepal Center for Contemporary Studies, and former

Professor of Political Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu;Mr Sankar Sen, Former Director General (Investigation), National

Human Rights Commission of India

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10.45 11.30 am: Discussion

Panel four: Role of the Media

11.30 11.35 am: Chairperson: Mr Daman Nath Dhungana, formerSpeaker, House of Representatives, Nepal

11.35 12.20 pm: Panel:

Mr Haroon Habib, The Hindu (Dhaka); Mr Bandula

Jayasekara, Editor-in-Chief, Daily News (Colombo); Mr

Wilson John, Senior Fellow, ORF.

12.20 1.00 pm Discussion

1.00 pm - 1.30 pm Concluding Remarks

1.30 pm Lunch

Note: Programme subject to minor changes