Prominent feminist activist Kavita Krishnan to give 2015/16 Tomlinson Lecture

Written by Carole Spary. Our 2015/16 Tomlinson Lecture speaker is Kavita Krishnan. Kavita is the Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association and a politbureau member of the CPI(ML) Liberation Party in India. She is a prominent feminist, left activist and campaigner on a range of interrelated issues, in particular women’s rights in India. …

Humanitarian Landscapes: Deep Lessons from Afghanistan

IAPS was delighted to host Professor Antonio Donini, the former Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) in Afghanistan, as he delivered the annual Tomlinson lecture. Professor Donini detailed how for a long period of history, Afghanistan served as a laboratory for humanitarian action. He also detailed how humanitarian action …