[Mitai-announce] PHRJ Event Update: Dec. 10 is Human Rights Day

[Susan Frick]

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 is International Human Rights Day,
and commemorates the anniversary of the ratification of the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
The full Declaration is available for your review at: 
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html


Ending Violence Against Women

Wednesday December 10, 2003 at 3:30 p.m. co-sponsored by Amnesty 
International USA
Keynote Address and Presentation
by Eve Ensler, actor and author
Panel Discussion with
Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership- 
Rutgers University
Taslima Nasrin, novelist and human rights activist from Bangladesh
Mary Harvey, Executive Director, Victims of Violence Program, Cambridge 
Hospital
Nawal Nour, Director, African Women's Health Centre, Brigham & Women's Hospital
For details on this event and others locally and nationally, visit 
http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/humanrightsday.html

Announcements from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

The Human Rights Newsletter continues to welcome MIT students' submissions; 
please contact Shefali Oza to contribute. To view the latest edition, go 
to: http://web.mit.edu/phrj/final_two_human.pdf and consider getting 
involved in the dialogue about human rights on campus and around the world.

PHRJ welcomes applications for Summer 2004 Internships through February 20, 
2004. It's never to early to start refining your proposal, so please visit 
http://web.mit.edu/phrj/internships.html for guidelines and contact Susan 
Frick with any questions or concerns.

PHRJ is planning several Spring 2004 events, primarily focused around the 
theme "Breaking Disciplinary Boundaries to the Study of Human Rights." 
Please do contact us to make suggestions and get involved.

Other Human Rights Related Events

>Thursdays at 38
>Documentary Film Forum
>Thursday, December 11
>COCA AND THE CONGRESSMAN
>Directed by Jon Alpert, 2003
>8:00 p.m. at 38 Cameron Ave., Suite 100
>Cambridge, MA (just outside of Davis Square)
>Information and Directions at www.38cameron.com
>Film will be followed by a live conference call with
>Evo Morales.
>
>This film will be presented by James Patton, who
>consulted on the filming of the documentary in Bolivia
>during June 2003.
>Next week's film, Dec 18th:  The Ad and the Ego

Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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