[Mitai-announce] Fwd: Join Us for Two Boston-area Darfur Events

[kayvan zainabadi]

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From: Physicians for Human Rights <web at phrusa.org>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Subject: Join Us for Two Boston-area Darfur Events
To: Kayvan Zainabadi <kayvan at mit.edu>


       *Please join us for two Boston-area Darfur events:*

*Amnesty International USA *Presents
The Ongoing Crisis in Darfur

*Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:00 p.m.
*Land Hall, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
79 JFK St., Cambridge<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=79+JFK+St+Cambridge+MA&sll=42.392984,-71.238856&sspn=0.394025,0.804749&ie=UTF8&z=16>

Speakers:
*Eric Reeves -* *Smith College *

and
*Sondra Crosby, MD -* *Boston Medical Center and Physicians for Human Rights
*

The panel will explore:


   - What is the current U.S. policy on the Darfur crisis?
   - Is humanitarian aid still available to displaced refugees?
   - What are the prospects for accountability and international justice for
   officials responsible for atrocities?

*Co-sponsored by:*

*Physicians for Human Rights
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
The Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur
My Sister's Keeper*

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Nowhere to Turn: The Women of Darfur

*Monday, August 10, 2009, 7:00 p.m.*

*Join Lin Piwowarczyk MD and Sondra Crosby MD* as they share research
findings and
personal reflections from their investigative trip to Chad in November 2008
which resulted in the report *Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, Support
and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women*<http://actnow-phr.org/ct/BdsKE0s1WzXt/>

Thomas Crane Public Library
40 Washington St.,
Quincy<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=40+Washington+St.+Quincy+MA&sll=42.371469,-71.12139&sspn=0.012318,0.025148&ie=UTF8&ll=42.251822,-71.001259&spn=0.006369,0.012574&z=17&iwloc=poi0>

*Photographs taken by Dr. Piwowarczyk during her visit to Chad*
will be on exhibit in the Coletti Reading Room from August 4 to 31.
A public reception will be held on *Thursday, August 6 from 6:00 to 8:00
p.m.*

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