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SOASTamilSoc.willbehostingMrP.WaythamoorthyandMrSureshGrover

whowillbespeakingon:

ThemarginalisationofMalaysiasminorityIndian

community.

Time:19:00-21:30

Date:Tuesday7thFebruary2012

Location:KhaliliLectureTheatre(KLT),SOASLocation: KhaliliLectureTheatre(KLT-mainbuilding)

SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies(SOAS),UniversityofLondon

ThornhaughStreet

RussellSquare

London

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Waytha Moorthy Waytha Moorthy is

the Chair of Hindraf, a grass root movementfor the marginalised Malaysian Indian

community. He began his career as a Litigation

lawyer. Much of Moorthys work involved

public interest litigations such as arbitrary

arrests of individuals, unlawful deaths of

detainees in police custody, extra judicial

killings; individuals denied of citizenship

status in Malaysia, individuals forced to accept

the Islam religion, represent Hindu temple and

devotees faced with demolition of their places

of worships, displaced plantation workers

denied of government compensation.

His experience on the above matters prompted

him to form a non-governmental organisation

in 2005 and thus Hindu Rights Action Force

commonly known as HINDRAF was formed.

He was the first to highlight the rights of non-

Muslims and Indians in the international arena.

He has presented at various conferences and at

the US Congress, UK Parliament, EU and UN.

In 2007, over 100,000 people joined

HINDRAF in a peaceful public march to

highlight the plight of the marginalised Indian

community. His International passport was

revoked by the Malaysian authorities whilst hewas attending a meeting at the UN office in

Geneva. He currently lives in exile after the

UK Government granted him political asylum

in 2008. He is the only Malaysian leader who

is forced to live in exile.

Suresh Grover has been active in the

Civil Rights field for over 30 years, and is theChairperson of the National Civil Rights

Movement. The Guardian Newspaper

described him as one of the hundred most

influential people in Social Policy in the UK.

He is the leading exponent of family and

community led campaigns having coordinated

the campaigns on Stephen Lawrence, Zahid

Mubarek and Victoria Climbie all these

cases led to Public Judicial Inquiries and

consequent positive changes in legislation,

social policy and practices in the United

Kingdom (UK).

He is currently the Director of The Monitoring

Group. (UK). Established in the early 1980s,

the organization is acknowledged as a leading

civil rights organistion that provides advocacy,

campaigning, casework, trauma and strategy

led services. The Group works towards the

eradication of racism, bigotry and religious

hatred and their adverse impact on victims and

their communities. It is committed to a

pluralistic society where human rights are

paramount and where cultural, social and

political diversity is promoted and valued.