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Hi,<br><br>
The Baha'i Association is organizing an event with Dr. Akhavan, a
<font size=2>P</font><font face="arial" size=2>rofessor of Law at McGill
University</font>. At 12:00 we plan to eat at a restaurant close to
Central Square, and, at 1:00, Dr. Akhavan will lead a discussion titled,
"Global Justice: Reflections of a UN War Crimes Prosecutor" in
Sidney Pacific<br><br>
If you'd like to join the lunch, please RSVP for location. In either
case, feel free to join us for the talk at 1:00.<br><br>
<font face="arial" size=2><b>Global Justice: <i>Reflections from a UN War
Crimes Prosecutor<br>
</i></b>Date: Tues. April 18<sup>th<br>
</sup>Time: 1pm<br>
Location: Sidney Pacific Seminar Room<br>
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=70+Pacific+Street+Cambridge+MA" eudora="autourl">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=70+Pacific+Street+Cambridge+MA</a><br><br>
Payam Akhavan was the first war crimes prosecutor at the UN Tribunal at
the Hague and was involved in the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for
crimes against humanity during the Kosovo war. He has also worked
on human rights issues in Rwanda, Guatemala, Cambodia, East Timor, Peru,
and Eritrea-Ethiopia, and is counsel to Uganda in the first case before
the International Criminal Court. Dr. Akhavan is also President
& Co-Founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre in New
Haven and Board Member of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation.<br><br>
He is presently Professor of Law at McGill University, and was previously
Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, the University of Toronto, and
Leiden University in the Netherlands. He received a Doctor of
International Law from Harvard Law School and has published extensively
on human rights.<br><br>
In recognition of his contributions to human rights, he was selected by
the World Economic Forum in 2005 as a Young Global Leader.<br><br>
<b>Sponsored by the MIT Baha'i Association<br><br>
</b></font>Regards,<br><br>
David </body>
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