[Mitai-announce] [Phrj-list] Join the audience for the BBC World Debate on Forced Labor at MIT May 14

[Susan Frick]

* JOIN THE AUDIENCE *

BBC Television and WBUR Radio
will tape discussions for broadcast 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 by the BBC World Service Trust

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

We ask audience members to arrive promptly---by 8:45 a.m.---to accommodate 
the broadcast taping schedule. Guests will be instructed to turn off all 
cellphones and beepers during the taping of the two programs.  (There will 
be a 15-minute break between the two.)
____________

Though many of us would like to think of forced labor as a practice of the 
past, the unfortunate reality is that millions of people are still victims 
of this gross human rights violation. Despite the fact that many would like 
to see the globalization process become more fair and equitable, the forced 
labor issue is
the focus of insufficient public policy and media attention.

This MIT event is designed to raise awareness. It will also raise questions 
about how exactly to define forced labor, how big a problem it is, and who 
should deal with it and how.  The event will occur shortly after the 
release of a major report on the topic by the International Labor Organization.

BBC World's The World Debate, hosted by Zeinab Badawi, reaches 258 million 
homes worldwide.  This program on forced labor will also be distributed in 
the U.S. by public television.

WBUR's 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.

Scheduled panelists include:

Regina Abrami
Harvard Business School

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

Terry Collingsworth
Executive Director, International Labor Rights Fund

Steven Law
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor

Roger Plant
Head of the Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor, International 
Labor Organization
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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/

Map of MIT's Kresge Auditorium:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=kresge

The auditorium is a 5- to 10-minute walk from the Kendall Square "T" stop 
(red line)
http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_subway_stationinfo.asp?staname=Kendall

Free parking is available at MIT's West Garage and West Annex Lot:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P25&Parking=go
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=P26&Parking=go

More about getting to MIT, including bus, driving and parking information:
http://web.mit.edu/visit/get-around.html

**RSVPs appreciated to phrj at mit.edu**


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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