Ria Chakraborty is a foreign policy and human rights advocate. As the public policy director for Hindus for Human Rights, she joins to talk about the implications of transnational repression and how political violence is used to enforce the Hindu nationalist agenda through legal and extra-judicial means. Writing in Foreign Policy and South Asian Voices, Chakraborty has documented the history of religious persecution and talks about the risks they pose to India’s record as a secular democracy. She talks about the 100 organizations that have signed a statement of solidarity with Sikhs, calling on US elected, civic, and faith leaders to confront the dangers of Hindu Supremacy and hold India to account.
Ria Chakrabarty, Policy Director for Hindus for Human Rights. She recently worked for the Armed Conflict Location and Events Data Project, where she researched political violence in the United States. She conducted her own research on the 2019 wave of democratic protests, which was published by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Journal of Global Affairs.
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