Joe Athialy
South Asia Coordinator
Joe Athialy is BIC’s Coordinator for South Asia.
Formerly the Campaigns and Communications Coordinator of Amnesty International (AI) in India, Joe steered AI’s national campaigns which included moratorium on the death penalty, promotion of housing rights and furthering corporate accountability. He edited AI India newsletters, maintained its website and coordinated the media work.
Prior to that, he was a full time activist for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), a grassroots movement that raised awareness of the social, environmental and economic impacts of and campaigned against large dams.
He was associated with the editing and publishing of The Movement of India, news magazine of the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) – an alliance of rights based grassroots movements in India.
He holds a degree in journalism.
Asia
South Asia