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<div align="center"><b>The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984:<br><br>
<i>a short film and discussion about industrial impunity and
international corporate responsibility <br><br>
</i></b>Thursday March 4, 2004<br><br>
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.<br><br>
MIT Center for International Studies (E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall
Square, Cambridge)<br><br>
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Dr. Ken Geiser, Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction
Institute will discuss:
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<li>Issues to be taken up at a global level when large corporations enter
third world nations
<li>Lessons from such disasters and what has been done by the industrial
control authorities worldwide since the Bhopal gas leak
<li>The current inadequacy of codes and structures to hold corporations
and their senior officials accountable
<li>Lack of international ability to redress corporate crimes
<li>Corporate crime becoming more institutionalized, more legitimate, and
more intense with the advent of globalization
</ul><b>Dr. Ken Geiser</b> <br>
<b>Toxics Use Reduction Institute, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Professor Kenneth R. Geiser, Ph.D., is director of the Massachusetts
Toxics Use Reduction Institute, a multi-disciplinary research, education
and training, and policy center at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell, where he is Associate Professor of Work Environment. Dr. Geiser
established and oversees the Institute's programs which serve more than
600 Massachusetts firms that report under the Toxics Use Reduction
Act. He is co-director of the University's Lowell Center for
Sustainable Production, a new research and technical assistance center
promoting environmentally sound and occupationally safe forms of
workplace organization. An internationally recognized expert on
environmental law and policy, clean production and sustainable
development, Dr. Geiser serves on the core Advisory Group for the United
Nations Environmental Programs Cleaner Production Programme. He also
serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Data
Reporting Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental
Policy and Technology, and the Agency's Common Sense Initiative for
Regulatory Reinvention. He completed his undergraduate work at the
University of California Berkeley, and holds graduate and doctoral
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <br>
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<div align="center"><b><i>Sponsored by the MIT Program on Human Rights
and Justice<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj</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>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj</a><br>
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