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<div align="center"><b>Upcoming Events Sponsored by the MIT Program on
Human Rights and Justice <br><br>
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<u>Human Rights Institutions</b> </u>(1st of 3 in Summer Interns Speaker
Series) <br>
Thursday October 16, 2003, 5:00-6:30 p.m. E-38-714, 292 Main
Street<br><br>
*<b>Bruce Au</b>, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br>
American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, DC<br><br>
*<b>Afiya Ayo Whisby</b>, Architecture<br>
NAACP, Atlanta, Georgia<br><br>
*<b>Sonia Kim</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Seoul, South
Korea<br><br>
<b><u>Trade, Resource Inequalities, and Human Rights</u></b> (2nd of 3 in
Summer Interns Speaker Series)<br><br>
Thursday October 30, 2003, 5:00-6:30 p.m. E-38-615, 292 Main
Street<br><br>
*<b>Apiwat Ratanawaraha</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland<br><br>
*<b>Maggie Scott</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
Institute for Political Ecology, Santiago, Chile<br><br>
*<b>Jean Walsh</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
Fair Trade Coffee project, Peru<br><br>
*<b>Jessica Zaman</b>, Chemical Engineering<br>
ITN, Bangladesh<br><br>
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<b><u>Forms of Inequality and Human Rights</u></b> (3rd of 3 in Summer
Interns Speaker Series)<br><br>
Thursday November 6, 2003 5:00-6:30 p.m. E-38-615, 292 Main
Street<br><br>
*<b>Rajendra Kumar</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
Sustainable Access in Rural India Project, Madras, India<br><br>
*<b>Meghan Fennelly</b>, Urban Studies & Planning<br>
Forum for African Educationalists, Accra, Ghana<br><br>
*<b>Katherine Ricke</b>, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Science<br>
Akha Heritage Foundation, Thailand<br><br>
* <b>Anne Pollack</b>, Science, Technology & Society<br>
Forum Against the Oppression of Women in Bombay, India<br><br>
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<b><u>National Security and Civil Liberties<br><br>
</u>Mike Honda<br>
</b>Sunday November 2, 2003<br>
2:00-4:00 p.m.<br>
Building E-25-111<br>
Mike is a Japanese American who was interned during WWII. He was
one of the very few in the U.S. Congress with the courage to vote against
the USA Patriot Act.<br>
Co-sponsored by PHRJ, the Center for International Studies/Starr
Forum<br>
New England Japanese American Citizens League<br><br>
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<b><u>Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional
Justice:<br>
Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?<br><br>
</u></b>Dr. Mauricio Romero, Colombia<br><br>
Thursday November 13, 2003 5:00-6:30 p.m.<br>
E28-714 (292 Main Street, 7<sup>th</sup> floor conference room)<br><br>
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<b><u>Towards Accountability: A Conference on Human Rights and Impunity
in India<br><br>
</u></b>Saturday November 15, 2003<br>
4:30-6:30 p.m. 10-250<br><br>
The conference will focus on the human rights violations in the regions
of Kashmir, Punjab and Gujarat and the subsequent impunity enjoyed by the
perpetrators, including state actors. The workshops held during the
conference will explore mechanisms to strengthen the linkages between
regional and international human rights actors, and expanding existing
regional advocacy processes internationally. This panel discussion will
be open to the general public. <br><br>
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<div align="center"><b>Other human rights-related events at MIT<br><br>
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<u>Ballots vs. Bullets: The Prospects for Peace in Guatemala<br>
</u></b>Iduvina Hernandez, independent journalist & activist
<br><br>
Thursday, October 9, 2003 7:00 p.m.<br>
MIT Room 14E-304<br><br>
Sponsored by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project and the MIT Women's<br>
Studies Program <br><br>
<b><u>America- An Empire?</u></b> <br><br>
Wednesday October 22, 2003 4:00 p.m.<br><br>
MIT Tang Center, 70 Memorial Drive <br><br>
<b>*Stephen W. Bosworth</b>, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy of Tufts University<br><br>
<b>*Michael Ignatieff</b>, Carr Professor of the Practice of Human Rights
and director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University<br><br>
<b>*Arnold Kanter,</b> principal and founding member of The Scowcroft
Group<br><br>
<b>*Enid C.B. Schoettle</b>, a consultant on international organizations
and global issues and special advisor to the chairman of the U.S.
National Intelligence Council<br><br>
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<b>For more information, please contact:<br><br>
<br>
</b>Susan Frick<br>
Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
E-38 Room 277<br>
292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138<br>
Tel: 617 258 7614<br>
Fax: 617 452 3962<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:fricks@mit.edu">fricks@mit.edu</a> or
<a href="mailto:phrj@mit.edu">phrj@mit.edu</a><br>
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