PANEL:
* Debbie Stothard, human rights defender and coordinator of ALTSEAN Burma
* Naw May-Oo Mutraw, a Karen by ethnicity, who is supporting the Karen National Union KNU peace process to establish a federal democracy in Burma
* Kay Thi Win of Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) and ADA Myanmar
* Lwin Lwin Thant health rights activist from Mandalay, Myanmar
* Mona Sabella, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Net)
* Herman Kumara, leads National Fisheries Solidarity Movement in Sri Lanka
* Dr Abdul Hameed Nayyar, peace activist and physicist, Pakistan
* Saeeda Diep, founder of Institute for Peace and Secular Studies, Pakistan
* Wali Haider of Roots For Equity, Pakistan Kisan Mazdoor Tahreek (PKMT) and Asia Peasant Coalition
* Dayasagar Shrestha, National Campaign for Sustainable Development, Nepal
* Kalpana Acharya, senior journalist from Nepal
* Nurul Islam Hasib, senior journalist from Bangladesh
* Dr Sandeep Pandey, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee and national vice president of Socialist Party (India)
* Ankit Goyal, convener of Eco-Socialist Front and host of Satyagraha discussion series
* Shobha Shukla, founder CNS and moderator