[LCM Events] [starrforum-list] 2/11: Jennifer Leaning | 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?


February 11, 2015  4:00p-5:30p


This is the first in a new lecture series in the honor of the late human-rights activist Hrank Dink.

About the Speaker:
Jennifer Leaning is the François-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.


Category:


lectures/conferences
lectures/conferences: humanities/social sciences
global/international


Speaker:


Jennifer Leaning


Location:


E14-674


Sponsored by:


Center for International Studies


Admission:


Open to the public


For more information:


starrforum at mit.edu<mailto:starrforum at mit.edu>
http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_021115.html



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Events Coordinator and Digital Media Specialist
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