[Mitai-announce] North Korea Human Rights event in 66-110. GREAT MOVIE AND SPEAKERS

[Jasmine Park]

Dear Activists,

Please come check out our event at 66-110 5PM. We have an awesome movie and
speakers. You are going to have absolutely amazing time! :)



*MIT Amnesty International & KSA*

*NORTH KOREA HUMAN RIGHTS EVENT
 *
*Sunday Oct 18, 2009*
*66-110 at 5PM*
*Movie Screening of 'Seoul
Train<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCIMLGG51MY&feature=player_embedded>
'*

*A panel discussion with*:
Dr. Jim Walsh, an expert of nuclear terrorism
Mr. Dan Chung, a social activist at Crossing Borders
(a nonprofit for NKorea refugees in China)
You can RSVP at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=154782908749&ref=nf

*Come learn about*:

Political Concentration Camp, Malnutrition, Lack of Fundamental Freedoms,
Famine...
 Why North Koreans have to seek refugee outside of their country.
What you can do to make a difference.

MIT Amnesty International and Korean Students Association invite you
 to the* first human rights event *on North Korea at MIT.
 We are raising awareness on the dire human rights crisis in North Korea,
 especially those regarding the refugees who have risked their lives to
escape
from a food crisis and other persecutions in their home country.

mitai-exec at mit.edu
ksa-exec at mit.edu


Food will be served.


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*How much do you know about North Korea and its Human Rights?
 *(source: www.linkglobal.org)*
*

*Official Name:* Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
 *Capital:* Pyongyang
*Government:* Centralized Communist state. One-man, one-party dictatorship
of “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il and the Korean Workers’ Party
*Population:* 23.5 million (2008 estimate)

*Malnourished Children:* 37% stunted, 23% underweight, and 7% wasted (World
Food Programme, 2004).

*Political Concentration Camps:* There are an estimated 200,000 North Koreans
who are in a vast network of political concentration camps. Entire families
are imprisoned, including children, up to three generations, because a
relative is suspected of being disloyal to the government. Virtually all
sentences are for life, and execution and torture are a common method of
punishment.

*Lack of Fundamental Freedoms:* The North Korean government prohibits
freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association. Not only wrong-doers,
but “wrong-thinkers” are punished, the press is centrally controlled, and
there is virtually no access to outside information.

*Famine:* Over one million people perished in the devastating famine in the
mid-1990s, many due to gross government neglect and mismanagement..




Phillip Kim
Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biology (Course X and VII)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Class of 2010
MIT Langer Lab
400 Memorial Drive | Cambridge, MA 02139 |





-- 
Jasmine Park




-- 
Jasmine Park