{"id":1003,"date":"2007-11-19T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-archive\/1003"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:52","slug":"ifaqeer-pakistan-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Friends of South Asia FOSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>working towards a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia &#8211; in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linked with <a href=\"http:\/\/word.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/1703\">iFaqeer &#8211; Pakistan &#038; USA<\/a>, .<\/p>\n<p>The basic mission of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/\">Friends of South Asia<\/a> is to achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia. The group works towards a demilitarized, nuclear-free South Asia; bringing together people with roots in various parts of South Asia, as well as other well-wishers of the region.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA promotes respect for and celebrates the diversity and plurality of South Asia, promoting amity between countries and communities and working towards a South Asia where the rights of all minorities are respected and protected; regardless of religious, ethnic, sexual or other differences.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA stands in solidarity with other like-minded organizations working on the ground in South Asia; amongst the South Asian diaspora around the world; as well as organizations that share our aspirations for a peaceful world &#8211; a world in which every human being can live a full and fruitful life without fear or hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA aspires to work through people-to-people contacts, dialog, and other non-violent, non-exclusionary means.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/events\/\">Events<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/resources\/\">resources<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/press\/\">press<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsouthasia.org\/about\/\">About<\/a>: MISSION: The basic mission of the \u00ab\u00a0Friends of South Asia\u00a0\u00bb is to achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The group works towards a demilitarized, nuclear-free South Asia; bringing together people with roots in various parts of South Asia, as well as other well-wishers of the region.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA promotes respect for and celebrates the diversity and plurality of South Asia, promoting amity between countries and communities and working towards a South Asia where the rights of all minorities are respected and protected; regardless of religious, ethnic, sexual or other differences.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA stands in solidarity with other like-minded organizations working on the ground in South Asia; amongst the South Asian diaspora around the world; as well as organizations that share our aspirations for a peaceful world&#8211;a world in which every human being can live a full and fruitful life without fear or hindrance.<\/p>\n<p>FOSA aspires to work through people-to-people contacts, dialog, and other non-violent, non-exclusionary means.<\/p>\n<p>IN THE BEGINNING: FOSA was founded in the Silicon Valley\/San Francisco Bay Area at the turn of 2001\/2002 when tensions between the two largest countries in South Asia threatened to break out into a nuclear conflagration.<\/p>\n<p>MONTHLY VIGILS: FOSA vigils were held on the last Saturday of every month at Lytton Plaza in Palo Alto during the period of war-like tensions between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>working towards a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia &#8211; in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh Linked with iFaqeer &#8211; Pakistan &#038; USA, . The basic mission of the Friends of South Asia is to achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia. The group works towards a demilitarized, nuclear-free South Asia; bringing together people with roots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Friends of South Asia FOSA&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15390,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/15390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}