[Sci-tech-public] Save the date! "Forced Labor in the Global Economy" event May 14 at MIT

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>
>* S A V E   T H E   D A T E *
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>The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (PHRJ)
>and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service Trust
>
>announce a special event on
>
>FORCED LABOR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
>Saturday May 14, 2005
>9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
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>This event will feature the taping of panel discussions by BBC 
>Television's World Debate and National Public Radio's On Point (produced 
>by WBUR/Boston) on the complex problem of forced labor as it exists in the 
>world today.  It will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
>shortly after the release of the International Labor Organization's Global 
>Report on Forced Labor.  The report will announce the ILO's estimates of 
>the monetary value of the forced labor economy and the number of people 
>currently working in forced labor situations.
>
>  The BBC World Debate is hosted by Tim Sebastian and distributed 
> worldwide to 275 million homes.
>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.
>
>The panelists will include
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>Mary Robinson
>Head of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President of Ireland 
>and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
>
>Jean-Robert Cadet
>Former slave and author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to 
>Middle-Class American
>____________
>
>Please join us for this important event, which is free and open to the public.
>Coffee and refreshments will be served.
>Additional details will be available this spring; visit 
>http://web.mit.edu/phrj for more information.
>RSVPs requested to: phrj at mit.edu
>
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-253-4062 
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