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<div align="center"><b>Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights
and Justice<br><br>
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<i><u>CANCELLED: </i>Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and
Transitional Justice: Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?<br>
</u>Mauricio Romero, </b>Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia<br>
<b>Thursday November 13, 2003<br>
</b>5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street) <br><br>
<b><u>Forum on Accountability, Impunity and Governance in
India<br>
</u>Saturday November 15, 2003<br>
</b>3:00-6:00 p.m.<br>
Location: 1-190<br>
Panelists: <b>Ram Narayan Kumar, </b>author of <i>Reduced to Ashes: The
Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab<br>
</i><b>Rajdeep Sardesai, </b>Managing Editor, New Delhi Television<br>
<b>Teesta Setalvad, </b>Editor, Communalism Combat, and 2003 Recipient of
the Nuremburg Human Rights Award<br>
<b>Siddharth Varadarajan, </b>Deputy Chief of the News Bureau, <i>Times
of India<br>
</i>Moderator: <b>Balakrishnan Rajagopal, </b>Director of the MIT Program
on Human Rights and Justice (on leave 2003-04)<br><br>
<b><u>Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience
from India<br>
</u>Justice Verma,</b> former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court
and former Chair of the National Human Rights Commission<br>
<b>Monday November 17, 2003<br>
</b>12:15-1:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-615<br><br>
<b><u>Program on Human Rights and Justice Summer Internship Information
Session<br>
</u>Thursday November 20, 2003<br>
</b>5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)<br>
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: <b>February 20, 2004</b>.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><b><u>Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT
Community<br><br>
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Clothing Drive<br>
</b>United Trauma Relief, a student group at MIT, is setting up a
clothing drive this week at the request of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees. All donated clothing will be sent to Ethiopia at the end of the
month. Please look for labeled bags and boxes in dorm lobbies. Signs will
be posted Thursday directing those without dorm access to where they can
deposit clothes. <br><br>
<b>Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
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April 23-25, 2004<br>
</b>A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be
provided to participants. <b>Applications are due December 1</b> and are
available at
<a href="http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/">http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/</a>.
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<b>Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? </b>Applications are due
at CIS 12/15/03.
<a href="http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp">http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp</a><br><br>
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Susan Frick<br>
Program Assistant<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
E38-277, 292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 452 3962<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
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