South Asia State of Minorities Report 2019 S M Masum Billah is Associate Professor of Law at Jagannath University Dhaka. He holds a PhD from the School of Law, Victoria University, Wellington. His area of interests includes law and language, human rights, land law and poverty, legal history and constitutionalism of South Asia. He has published papers on issues of empowerment, property law, human rights and constitutionalism in referred journals. Dr Billah was a visiting fellow at the South African Chair in Property Law, Stellenbosch University, Capetown (2019). He is the author of Ainer Vab o Ovab (The Art and Inert of Law). His forthcoming book is The Politics of Land Law: The Case of Bangladesh. Hassan Ali Faiz has wide experience and numerous accomplishments in the areas of human rights, rule of law and gender in Afghanistan. He has been active in the field of human rights for 15 years. His major research focus is on human rights and women's rights. He currently works as the Research Director at the Civil Society and Human Rights Network, which is an umbrella organisation comprised of 160 members. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as the head of Human Rights Support Unit in the Ministry of Justice, supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He was the director of Daikundi Office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) from 2008 to 2010; and from 2004 to 2007, he worked as a Child Rights Protection and Promotion officer with AIHRC. He was a minority fellow with the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in 2017. Yangchen Dolker Gurung was till recently Senior Research Associate at Social Science Baha. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York. During her time at Social Science Baha, she worked on projects related to social inclusion and minority rights, including the research project titled ‘State Delivering for Poor People: Improving Outcomes through Stronger Evidence’ in collaboration with Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre at the University of xvi