[LCM Events] [starrforum-list] 4/29: Jennifer Leaning speaks at Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Human Rights

[Rebecca Elise Ochoa]

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture on Human Rights: Forced Migration and Human Rights: Can we maintain the promise of protection?


April 29, 2015  4:30p-6:00p


Dr. Jennifer Leaning is the guest speaker at the inauguration of a new lecture series honoring the late human-rights activist Hrank Dink.

About the Speaker:
Jennifer Leaning is the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Leaning's research and policy interests include issues of public health, medical ethics, and early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. She has field experience in problems of public health assessment and human rights in a range of crisis situations (including Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Kosovo, the Middle East, former Soviet Union, Somalia, the Chad-Darfur border, and the African Great Lakes area) and has written widely on these issues.



Location:


E51-115 Wong Auditorium


Other Upcoming Events:
Title: "When the dust settles down: the Russian foreign policy after the Ukrainian crisis" <http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=16145765&location=http://web.mit.edu/cis/calendar/&groupid=330,447,1132,482,299,1447,1116,1291,352>
Date: Monday, May 4th, 2015
Time: 2PM-3:30PM
Speaker: Andrey Kortunov, Moderating Carol Saivetz
Location: E40-496 | Pye Conference Room


Title: "Starr Forum: Evolving Security Dynamics in Asia"<http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event_ext.pl?event=16145730&location=http://web.mit.edu/cis/calendar/&groupid=330,447,1132,482,299,1447,1116,1291,352>
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015
Speakers: Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Taylor Fravel, Vipin Narang
Time: 4:30PM- 6PM
Location: E51-115  | MIT Wong Auditorium

Rebecca Ochoa
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