[Mitai-announce] Amnesty upcoming events

[Kayvan]

1) "RX FOR SURVIVAL"--Global Health Series Spotlighting International 
Public Health

Weds, January 30 6:00p–8:00p in 4-270
http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-8744.html

Screening of "How Safe Are We?" with guest speaker Dr. David Jones,MD, 
PhD -lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical 
School and director of the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, 
Technology, and Medicine at MIT. "How Safe Are We?": In the last few 
decades, however, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged and one of 
them — AIDS — is becoming perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history.
DINNER WILL BE PROVIDED

2) Pakistan: Forever in the Eye of the Storm

Thurs, January 31 at 7:30p-9:00p in 6-120
https://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=9000293&date=2008/1/31

Why is it that Pakistan is at the epicenter of local and global crisis? 
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston 
University, will give a presentation and Q&A session on the current 
situation in Pakistan: a complex nation of 160 million which struggles 
in the face of military rule, human rights abuse, violent politics, 
extremism, and much more.
SNACKS & DRINKS PROVIDED

3) The Role of Physicians in "Enhanced Interrogations": A Look at US 
Torture Policy

Thurs, February 7th at 7:00p-8:00p in 66-110
(http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=66-110&mapsearch=go)

Nathaniel Raymond, one of the leaders of Physicians for Human Right's 
successful Campaign Against Torture, has played a key role as a 
communications strategist and investigator in helping reveal the 
critical role of health professionals play, especially psychologists, in 
the Bush Administration's abusive interrogation policies.  He will 
discuss how training programs for special operations forces were used by 
the Bush Administration as the DNA of torture and other illegal tactics 
employed against suspected terrorists.
SNACKS & DRINKS PROVIDED