[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] BBC-MIT Event on Forced Labor in the Global Economy May 14

[Susan Frick]

* S A V E   T H E   D A T E *

Please join us for a special event on

FORCED LABOR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Saturday May 14, 2005
MIT's Kresge Auditorium
8:45 a.m. - noon

Presented by the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT's Center 
for International Studies
and the BBC World Service Trust.

Free and open to the public.
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Though many of us would like to think of slavery as a practice of the past, 
the unfortunate reality is that millions of people are still victims of 
forced labor, enforced prostitution and human trafficking. Despite the 
seriousness of this problem, it is the focus of insufficient public policy 
and media attention.

This event is designed to shine increase awareness about forced labor in 
the global economy, and will occur shortly after the release of a major 
report on the topic by the International Labor Organization.

The event will feature the taping of panel discussions by BBC Television's 
"The World Debate" and National Public Radio's "On Point" (produced by 
WBUR/Boston) and will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology's Kresge Auditorium.

The BBC World Debate, hosted by Zeinab Badawi, is distributed worldwide to 
275 million homes. On Point is hosted by Tom Ashbrook, a former deputy 
managing editor of the Boston Globe, and is distributed to NPR stations 
across the United States.

The panelists will include:

Kevin Bales
President, Free the Slaves

Jagdish Bhagwati
University Professor of Economics and Political Science, Columbia University
Author of In Defense of Globalization

Jean-Robert Câdet
Author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
Adjunct Lecturer in French at the University of Cincinnati

Steven Law
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor

Mary Robinson
Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative
Former President of Ireland (1990-1997)
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002)
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Light refreshments will be served.

Additional details are available at:
http://web.mit.edu/cis/press_release_forced_labor.html
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
http://web.mit.edu/cis/

Kresge Auditorium map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=kresge
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To assist us in estimating audience size, RSVPs to phrj at mit.edu will be 
much appreciated.  The event will require seating by 8:45 a.m. and will 
last, with a break, until noon.


Susan Frick
Program Coordinator
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Building 9 Room 365
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 253 2654
Email: fricks at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/phrj
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