Minorities and Inclusive Electoral Processes in South Asia
Published By: South Asians for Human Rights | Published Date: January, 01 , 2011This overview brings together major findings and crosscutting issues
in the “country situation reports” from Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka respectively, which were commissioned
by South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) as part of its project
on the minorities and inclusive electoral processes in South Asia.2
The overall objective of this publication is to throw light on the
challenges faced in ensuring that electoral processes in South
Asia meaningfully include disadvantaged and hitherto excluded
communities and social groups. In keeping with this objective, the
country reports focus on the major axes of exclusion in South Asia
such as gender, ethnicity, caste and religion but also refer to other
less visible groups such as internally displaced persons, persons
with disabilities, and migrant workers. This overview uses the
term ‘political minorities’, underlining the shared trait of political
exclusion and structural disadvantage, to refer to this large and
otherwise heterogeneous population.
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