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<b>Constructing the Rule of Law: Public Security, Justice and Democracy
Building<br>
</b>Arturo Alvarado, PHRJ Research Fellow<br>
Thursday May 13, 2004<br>
4:30-6:00 p.m.<br>
E38-615, 292 Main Street, Kendall Square<br><br>
During the mid 1990s several regimes throughout the world, especially
those in developing areas or transitional economies, were undergoing a
clear process of democratization, although this process was not
completely successful according to several standards. These new
democracies developed a peculiar political outcome where civil, political
and human rights are not completely fulfilled. This wave of crime and
human and civil rights abuses threatens the consolidation of a new rule
of law and the fulfillment of complete democratic rights for citizens.
Please join us for a discussion of the role of justice in regimes
undergoing democratic transition.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Other Upcoming Events of
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SUDAN CHARITY DINNER<br>
Sudanese cuisine, live music and Omer Ismail.<br><br>
La Sala de Puerto Rico<br>
[2nd floor of MIT student center; 84 Mass Ave, Cambridge]<br>
7-9 PM, Friday, May 14<br><br>
Help victims of fighting in Western Sudan! <br>
Over a million civilians have been displaced in genocidal attacks
by<br>
government backed militias. They urgently need food aid, which
must<br>
be delivered before the rainy season starts in a few weeks.
All<br>
proceeds from the dinner go to World Food Programme efforts
there.<br><br>
$8 Students/$12 non-students<br>
TECHCASH DONATIONS ACCEPTED as well as cash or check.<br>
Sign up all week at the Lobby 10 booth, 10am-4pm, or reserve your
spot<br>
by writing to saria_hassan@student.hms.harvard.edu.<br>
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Enjoy good food and good music!<br>
Food catered by Fasika and live jazz/funk by the Max Fünck
Institut.<br><br>
Hear about current events in Sudan!<br>
Omer Ismail, who recently testified before Congress and appeared on<br>
NPR's "The Connection," will speak on the situation in Darfur,
Western<br>
Sudan (please see bio below).<br><br>
For more information or to get involved, write to sudan@mit.edu or<br>
visit
<a href="http://sudan.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://sudan.mit.edu</a>.<br><br>
Sponsored By:<br>
MIT United Trauma Relief<br>
MIT chapter of Amnesty International<br>
MIT Women's Studies Program<br>
MIT African Students Association<br><br>
Omar Ismail's Biography:<br>
Omer Ismail, born in El Fashir, Western Sudan. After graduating
from<br>
Khartoum University, he worked as research assistant to Dr. Mansour<br>
Khalid, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sudan. His work
with<br>
international relief and development organizations continued until<br>
1988 when he became the Operations Manager for the United Nations<br>
Operation Life Line Sudan, the largest relief operation in the
world<br>
at the time. He fled Sudan after the NIF (National Islamic Front)
took<br>
power in 1989 and since lived as a refugee in the US. He returned
to<br>
the United Nations to serve in Somalia between 1992-1994. In<br>
Washington, he helped found the Sudan Democratic Forum, a think
tank<br>
of Sudanese intellectuals working for advancement of democracy in<br>
Sudan. He is the spokesperson for The Darfur Union an advocacy
group<br>
and the co-founder of Darfur Peace and Development. He lives in
Silver<br>
Spring, Maryland.</blockquote><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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