[Mitai-announce] Darfur in the context of Sudan's Conflicts: A human rights reality check

[Kayvan]

Also make sure to mark your calendar for the following excellent lecture 
on Sudan and human rights:


Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Darfur in the context of Sudan's Conflicts: A human rights reality check

Speaker: Francis Deng

Time: 5:00p–6:30p

Location: 66-110

Francis M. Deng is Director of the Sudan Peace Support Project. He is 
also a Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies and a 
Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at Johns 
Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International 
Studies. Before joining MIT, Dr. Deng was a Distinguished Visiting 
Scholar at the John Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.

Ambassador Deng served from 1992-2004 as the Representative of the 
United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, with 
the rank of Under-Secretary-General. He also served as Sudan's 
Ambassador to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States, 
and was Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. He resigned from 
the foreign service in 1983 to protest Sudan's growing orientation 
toward Islamic fundamentalism.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Program on Human Rights & Justice, Center for International 
Studies

http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=7834964&date=2007/04/03

For more information, contact:
CJ Huang
258-7614
phrj at mit.edu