Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be inaugurating the three-day Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar International Conference on Social Justice on Friday here.
The conference will unveil the “Bengaluru Declaration,” outlining specific constitutional, institutional and policy responses to concerns of equity, human rights, freedom and democracy.
Social Reformers Martin Luther King -III, Noble Laureate and human right activist Kailash Satyathri, Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) chairman S.K. Thorat, former MP Prakash Ambedkar and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would attend the inaugural function at GKVK campus at 5 p.m.
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Over 80 international, 149 national and 80 state-level speakers including academics, activists and policy-makers would address about 2,000 participants at the conference on Saturday and Sunday (July 22-23).
As the conference also commemorates the 126th birth anniversary of the architect of the Indian Constitution, life and works of Ambedkar would will be deliberated upon as they are still relevant to the social, political and economic justice across the country and the world over, said a press statement.
Among the 80 overseas speakers would be Cornel West, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, James Manor, Thomas Weisskopf,Upendra Baxi, Laurence Simon, Samuel Myers and Ashutosh Varshney.
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