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[Susan Frick]

Upcoming Events from MIT's Program on Human Rights and Justice

Trade, Resource Inequalities, and Human Rights
Thursday October 30, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
E38-615 (292 Main Street)
*Apiwat Ratanawaraha, Urban Studies & Planning
UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland
*Maggie Scott, Urban Studies & Planning
Institute for Political Ecology, Santiago, Chile
*Jean Walsh, Urban Studies & Planning
Fair Trade Coffee project, Piura, Peru
*Jessica Zaman, Chemical Engineering
International Training Network, Dhaka, Bangladesh

National Security and Civil Liberties
Sunday November 2, 2003
2:00-4:00 p.m.
E25-111
Mike Honda, U.S. Congressman who voted against the Patriot Act
Co-sponsored by the New England Japanese American Citizens League and CIS 
Starr Forum

Forms of Inequality and Human Rights
Thursday November 6, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
E38-615 (292 Main Street)
*Rajendra Kumar, Urban Studies & Planning
Sustainable Access in Rural India Project, Madras, India
*Meghan Fennelly, Urban Studies & Planning
Forum for African Educationalists, Accra, Ghana
*Katherine Ricke, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Science
Akha Heritage Foundation, Chiangrai, Thailand
*Anne Pollack, Science, Technology & Society
Forum Against the Oppression of Women in Bombay, India

Negotiation with the Colombian Paramilitaries and Transitional Justice: 
Asymmetry, Symmetry or War Strategy?
Thursday November 13, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
E38-615 (292 Main Street)
Mauricio Romero, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia

Forum on  Accountability, Impunity and Governance in India
Saturday November 15, 2003
3:00-6:00 p.m.
1-190
Panelists: Ram Naryan Kumar, Teesta Setalvad, Tapan Bose, Angana Chatterjee
Moderated by Siddharth Vardrajan with opening remarks from Balakrishnan 
Rajagopal

Program on Human Rights and Justice Internship Information Session
Thursday November 20, 2003
5:00-6:30 p.m.
E38-714 (292 Main Street)
Deadline for Summer 2004 proposals: February 20, 2004.


Other Upcoming Human Rights Events at MIT



Friday, October 24, 2003
12:05 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Gary T. Marx, National Academy of Sciences, Carlson Visiting Distinguished 
Professor at West Virginia University and MIT Professor Emeritus
"From Border-Busting to Ubiquitous Computing: Some Social, Cultural and 
Policy Implications of Recent Changes in Information Technology"
Location: 3-401
Contact: Reservations required by Thursday 10/23 to Sue Delaney, sld at mit.edu
Discussants: Diane Davis, Keith Hampton


Grassroots International  "Sow Justice, Reap Security"
conference and 20th Anniversary celebration
Saturday, November 15, 2003
9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
The Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge MA.
For more information, please visit: 
<http://www.grassrootsonline.org/anniversary/twenty.html>http://www.grassrootsonline.org/anniversary/twenty.html
Registration is $35 until November 1; $50 after November 1.

For more information, please contact:

Susan Frick
Program Assistant
Program on Human Rights and Justice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E38-277, 292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617 258 7614
Fax: 617 452 3962
Email: fricks at mit.edu

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