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<div align="center"><font size=4 color="#800000"><b>* S A V E
T H E D A T E *<br><br>
</b></font><font color="#800000">The MIT Program on Human Rights and
Justice (PHRJ)<br>
and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service
Trust<br><br>
</font><i>announce a special event on<br><br>
</i><font size=4 color="#800000"><b>FORCED LABOR IN THE GLOBAL
ECONOMY<br>
</font><font size=4>Saturday May 14, 2005<br>
9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.<br>
</b></font>____________<br><br>
<font size=2>This event will feature the taping of panel discussions
by<b> BBC Television's World Debate</b> and<b> National Public Radio's On
Point</b> (produced by WBUR/Boston) on the complex problem of forced
labor as it exists in the world today. It will be held at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology shortly after the release of the
International Labor Organization's Global Report on Forced Labor.
The report will announce the ILO's estimates of the monetary value of the
forced labor economy and the number of people currently working in forced
labor situations.<br><br>
The BBC World Debate is hosted by Tim Sebastian and distributed
worldwide to 275 million homes. <br>
On Point is hosted by Tom Ashbrook, a former deputy managing editor of
the<i> Boston Globe</i>, <br>
and is distributed to NPR stations across the United States.<br><br>
The panelists will include<br><br>
</font><b>Mary Robinson<br>
</b><font size=2>Head of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former
President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights<br><br>
</font><b>Jean-Robert Cadet<br>
</b><font size=2>Former slave and author of<i> Restavec: From Haitian
Slave Child to Middle-Class American <br>
</i></font>____________<br><br>
<font size=2>Please join us for this important event, which is free and
open to the public.<br>
Coffee and refreshments will be served.<br>
Additional details will be available this spring; visit
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/phrj" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/phrj</a>
for more information.<br>
</font><b>RSVPs requested to: phrj@mit.edu<br><br>
<font color="#800000">M I T C E N T E R F O R I N T E R N A T I O N A L S T U D I E S<br>
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