[Mitai-announce] Human Rights events at MIT

[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional Justice: 
Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?
Mauricio Romero, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia
Thursday November 13, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street) ***PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE***

Forum on  Accountability, Impunity and Governance in India
Saturday November 15, 2003
3:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: 1-190
Panelists: Ram Narayan Kumar, author of Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency 
and Human Rights in Punjab
Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, New Delhi Television
Teesta Setalvad, Editor, Communalism Combat, and 2003 Recipient of the 
Nuremburg Human Rights Award
Siddharth Varadarajan, Deputy Chief of the News Bureau, Times of India
Moderator: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Director of the MIT Program on Human 
Rights and Justice (on leave 2003-04)

Can the Judiciary Prevent Massive Human Rights Abuses? Experience from India
Justice Verma, former Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court and former 
Chair of the National Human Rights Commission
Monday November 17, 2003
12:15-1:30 p.m.
Location: E38-615

Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004.


Other Human Rights Opportunities in the MIT Community

Sudan's Peace Process Event this Spring
Interested in collaborating with other students in the area to organize a 
conference on the Sudan peace process this spring? There will be a planning 
meeting this Sunday November 9 at 5:00 at the Fletcher School. For 
directions and more info, contact: Jay Balasubramanian 
<Jayshree.Balasubramanian at tufts.edu> or call him at 617-838-0251.

Northwestern University to Host Student Conference on Human Rights
April 23-25, 2004
A travel stipend, housing, meals and local transportation will be provided 
to participants. Applications are due December 1 and are available at 
<http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/>http://www2.mmlc.northwestern.edu/humanrights/. 


Graduating Seniors: Interested in serving as a Research Fellow at the 
Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington D.C.? Applications are due at 
CIS 12/15/03. 
<http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp>http://www.ceip.org/files/about/about_Junior.asp


Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu
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