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Human Rights Program Events Archive
Spring 2007
Wednesday April 11, 2007, 12:30-2pm
“Ambiguous Lives—Violence Against Dalit Women in Tamilnadu, India”
IAB Room 1134
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Wednesday April 11, 2007, 4-6pm
“Universities and Labor Standards in the Global Economy”
Altschul Auditorium, Intl Affairs Building
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Wednesday April 11, 2007, 4pm
“From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: A History of Sexual Identity/Politics"
Low Memorial Library Rotunda
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
“An Evening of Film” with Red Light Children
Hamilton Hall, Room 717
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Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30pm
Poverty Truth Commission
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway (at 121st)
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Thursday April 12, 2007, 12:45pm
“Child Right to Protection Realized: Best Practices and Lessons Learned”
Jerome Green Hall, Columbia Law School, Room 106
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Thursday April 12, 2007, 7pm
“Displaced in Darfur: Gender, Politics & Sexuality in a Sudanese Squatter Settlement”
Intl Affairs Building, Altschul Hall
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4pm
Rights Approaches to Disability: International Law and Community Participation
Lerner Hall, Room 555
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Friday, 4/13 at 10pm
Project H(om)e Fundraiser/Social for Shanti Salaam
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April 6: 5p.m.-7p.m.
Human Rights in Quisqueya: Exploring Anti-Haitian Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic
306 Russell Hall, Teachers College
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Thursday, April 26, 4 p.m.
"Why We Care About Torture"
Altschul Auditorium (417 IAB)
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Thursday, April 5, 12:30-2 p.m.
“Address by ‘The’ Anti-Corruption Crusader” in Nigeria
Uris Hall 141
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Thursday, April 5, 12:30-2 p.m.
“The Iraqi Legal System”
IAB 1118
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Thursday, April 5, 2-4 p.m.
“Lecture by Dr. Partha Dasgupta—Social Capital and Develop.m.ent”
IAB 407
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Friday, April 6, 12:30-2 p.m.
“Forum on Sustainability in Business”
IAB 1118
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Thursday, April 12, 12:45-6 p.m.
Conference: “The Child's Right to Protection Realized: Best Practices and Lessons Learned”
Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) room 104
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Thursday, March 22, 1:30-9 p.m.
Conference: Toward Peace and Justice: The Role of International Law in Confronting War and Genocide
Jerome Greene Hall
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Thursday, March 22, 4-6 p.m.
Update on ‘Is Sustainable Develop.m.ent Feasible?’
Lerner 555
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Thursday, March 22, 6:15 p.m.
HIV and International Security
Bard Hall, 410 West 58th Street
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Sunday March 25th from 4-7 p.m.
“Inside Pakistan”
Columbia's Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall
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Thursday, April 5 6-8:00 p.m.
Documenting Injustice, Protecting Identities
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street
(between Ninth and Tenth Avenues)
3rd Floor
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Sunday, May 20
Columbia team AIDS Walk New York
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Monday, March 26, 11am-4p.m.
Human Rights in Focus: Art &Activism
Jerome Greene Lobby
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Monday, March 26
Education, Politics and Social Policy Graduate Student Conference
Teachers College
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Friday, March 30, 1-4p.m.
Transitioning from Relief to Develop.m.ent: Impact on Health
Hess Commons, 722 West 168th Street
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Saturday, May 19, 10am-1p.m.
Walk to Beat Lou Gehrig’s Disease
Charles Schurz Park, 87th and East River, Manhattan
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Monday, March 5
“A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq”
IAB Room 1118
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Monday, March 5, 12:25 p.m.
“Judiciability of Economic and Social Rights from a Comparative Perspective: Trends and Challenges”
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107
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Tuesday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
“Friendly Fire”
Faculty House, Presidents Room
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Tuesday, March 6, 12:30 p.m.
“Metropolitan Debris—Forces and Fallout of Human Redemption”
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 754
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Wednesday, March 7, 12:00 p.m.
“A Comparative Perspective in The Role of Cultural Heritage in Post-disaster Develop.m.ent Planning”
IAB Room 802
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Wednesday, March 7, 4:00 p.m.
“Civil Liberties, Islam and the Nexus Between the Struggle for Democracy and Iran's Nuclear Ambitions”
IAB Room 1501
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Thursday, March 8, 2:00 p.m.
“State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace”
IAB Lindsay Rogers Room, 7th floor”
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Thursday, March 1, 3:00 p.m.
“The Future of Human Rights and Democratization in Turkey”
IAB Room 1118
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Wednesday, February 28, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
“Pledging Allegiance—The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools”
Grace Dodge Hall, Teachers College, Room 179
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Tuesday, February 27, 7:00 p.m.
“Rash: A Solo Play About One Woman's Experience as a Human Rights Observer in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
Zankel Building, Teachers College, Room 125, Milbank Chapel
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Tuesday, February 27, 6:00 p.m.
“Southeast Asia Internship Panel”
IAB Room 1219
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Monday, February 26, 4:00 p.m.
“Forms, Agencies and Outcomes of State Repression in Post-Revolutionary Iran”
International Affairs Building, Room 801
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Friday, February 23, 11:00 p.m.
Columbia University’s APEC Study Center and the Program in International Economic Policy (PIEP) at SIPA present:
“The World Bank—China, India, and Africa”
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Thursday, February 22, 9:00 am
The Humanitarian Affairs Program presents:
“Sudan Divided - The Challenge to Humanitarian Action”
IAB 15th Floor
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Wednesday, February 21, 12:30 p.m.
The Southern Asian Institute presents:
“Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Reproductive Heteronormativity”
IAB Room 1134
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Wednesday, February 21, 12:00 p.m.
“The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Aid—Africa”
IAB Room 1118
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Tuesday, February 20, 4:10 p.m.
“Demobilizing Islam—Institutionalized Religion and Politics of Co-optation”
IAB Room 801
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Monday, February 19, Dinner at 6:00 p.m., Seminar at 7:15 p.m.
“Uncommon Causes, Common Futures—Global Warming and Labor Rights in the 21st Century” Faculty House
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Friday, February 16, 1:00 p.m.
“Refugee Issues Seminar: A Closer Look at Refugee Resettlement in the U.S.—from International Policies to First Hand Experience”
Mailman School of Public Health, Medical Center Campus, 722 W. 168th St., Hess Commons
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Friday, February 16, 10:00 am
“All Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Develop.m.ent Career Fair”
The Rotunda, Low Library
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Friday, February 16, 12:30 p.m.
“Philanthropy, Profits and Progress—the Role of Private Actors in International Develop.m.ent”
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
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Thursday, February 15, dinner at 6:00 p.m., discussion at 7:15 p.m.
“Religious Rights in Europe and France: Blemish or Trend?”
Faculty House
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Thursday, February 15, 5:00 p.m.
“Las Mesas de Diálogo en Colombia: Peace Efforts in a War-Torn Country”
IAB Room 707
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Tuesday, February 13, 12:00 p.m.
“Develop.m.ent in Ukraine and its Foreign Policy”
IAB Room 1219
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Monday, February 12, 6:30 p.m.
“Islamophobia”
Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 569
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Friday, February 9, 12:20 p.m.
“Africa Open Society Justice Institute”
Jerome Greene Hall , Room 546
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Thursday, February 8, 6:30 p.m.
“Revisiting the Sagan/Waltz Nuclear Proliferation v. Non-Proliferation Debate--The Context of Iran”
IAB Room 1501
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Thursday, February 8, 6:30 p.m.
“The Impact of Globalization on the Countries of the South”
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104
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Tuesday, February 6, 1:00 p.m.
“Rain in a Dry Land”
IAB Room 802
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Monday, February 5, 6:30 p.m.
“Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling”
IAB Lindsay Rogers Room, 7th floor
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Monday, February 5, 12:00 p.m.
“Trends in the Labor Market in Transition Economies and Implications for Higher Education”
IAB Room 1219
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Thursday, February 1, 12:30 p.m.
“Empowering Arab Women? Assessing the Arab Human Develop.m.ent Report”
IAB Room 1501
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Wednesday, January 31, 12:30 p.m.
“Living Proof—Testimony and Circuits of Subjectivity”
IAB Room 1134
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Wednesday, January 31, 12:00 p.m.
“Integrating HIV-AIDS into Develop.m.ent”
IAB Room 1118
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Wednesday, January 31, 7:15 p.m.
“‘A simple African woman?’ The legacy of The Hottentot Venus in contemporary South African politics of gender equality, health and human rights”
Faculty House
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Monday, January 29, all day
“Photography Exhibition: ‘Azerbaijan—A Failed Revolution’”
IAB Room 1219
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Thursday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. for dinner and 7:15 p.m. for seminar
“Reconciliation Reconceived: Religion, Secularism and the Language of Transition”
Faculty House
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Wednesday, January 24, 5:50 p.m.
“Open House Information Session”
Uris Hall (Columbia Business School), Hepburn Lounge
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Tuesday, January 23, 4:10 p.m.
“Rethinking the Relationship Between Religion, Secularism and Liberal Democracy”
IAB Room 801
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Monday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. for dinner and 7:15 p.m. for seminar
“The Logistics Industry as an Agent of Change in the Global Economy: The Case of the Port of New York and New Jersey”
Faculty House
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February 2002
International Humanitarian Law Post-September 11:
Problems and Prospects
with Horst Fischer
Professor, Ruhr University in Germany and Leiden University, in the
Netherlands, President of the European University Network on
Humanitarian Assistance
Thursday, February 21st, 6-8pm
Jerome Green Law School Building, Room 101
Co-Sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School and the SIPA Humanitarian Affairs Program
The Center for the Study of Human Rights presents:
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINE: Human Rights Advocates Brown Bag Series
Demanding Justice and Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
with:
Saifuddin Bantasyam
Care Human Rights Foundation (Indonesia)
Erika Bocanegra
National Coordination of Human Rights (Peru), and
Stanislav Samtchenko
Committee Against Torture (Russia)
Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 12:30-2:00pm
Room 1134, School of International and Public Affairs, 420
W. 118th Street/at Amsterdam Avenue.
Co-Sponsored by the South Asia Institute, the SIPA Human Rights
Program, and the Institute for Latin American Studies
The Human Rights Program invites you to a
Human Rights Potluck Dinner
February 18, 7:30 pm
For details, please e-mail Rebecca Morgan at rmm2003@columbia.edu
Screening of the Documentary:
Justice and the Generals
Friday, February 15th at 4:00 pm
SIPA Building, Room 417, Columbia University, 118th and Amsterdam
Brought to you by Women in Public and International Affairs (WIPIA), Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (SIRR), Latin American Law Students Assoc (LALSA), Center for the Study of Human Rights, SIPA Human Rights Program, Columbia College Human Rights Program
Altschul Auditorium
The SIPA Office of Career Services cordially invite you to attend the
Economic and Political Development,
Human Rights,
Humanitarian Affairs &
International Conflict Resolution
Alumni and Student Reception
Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Room 1500, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
This reception is a networking event for students and alumni
in a cocktail reception setting.
November-December 2001
The SIPA Human Rights Program in conjunction with WITNESS and the
Columbia Students Against Sweatshops present the screening of
"Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on U.S. Saipan"
A
discussion featuring
Tia Lessin,
the
Producer/Director will follow the showing.
December 4,
6:30-8pm, Altschul Auditorium, International Affairs Building
The Human Rights Program invites you to a discussion
on:
"Globalization, Poverty Reduction, and Human Rights - the
Role of the World Bank in Developing Countries"
with Mats
Karlsson
Vice President, External Affairs & United
Nations Affairs, The World Bank Group
Thursday, November 29,
2001,9:30 am to 11:00 am, Room 1501 International Affairs
SIPA HRP Potluck Dinner
Wednesday, November 28,
7:30pm
For address and other information, please e-mail Maya
Ileto, mi245@columbia.edu
The SIPA Human Rights Program in conjunction with the Southeast
Asian Students Initiative and the East Asian Institute
present
Malaysia after September 11
with Bridget
Welsh
Assistant Professor of Southeast Asia Studies John
Hopkins University
Wednesday, November 28, 2001,
1-2:30pm
Room 918, East Asian Institute, International
Affairs Building
The SIPA Human Rights Program presents
Talking Tolerance at
the Time of 'War': Forging Coexistence after September
11th
with Eric Nonacs
Executive Director,
The Coexistence Initiative
Monday, 26 November,
12:30-2:00pm
Room 1134, International Affairs Building
Co-sponsored by the Conflict Resolution Program and the Center for
the Study of Human Rights
The SIPA Human Rights Program and the Office of Career Services
invite you to a:
Human Rights Internship
Debriefing
Several second year human rights students
discussing their internship experiences, both in New York and
overseas.
Monday November 19, 12:30-2pm
Room 413,
International Affairs Building
The SIPA Human Rights Program and the Humanitarian Affairs
Program invite you to the:
Weekly Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs Coffee Hour
Come join fellow students
and faculty for informal gathering over cookies and coffee. All are
welcome.
Thursday, November 14, 5:00-6:00 pm.
Lindsay
Rogers Room, 7th Floor, School of International and Public
Affairs
The SIPA Human Rights Program and the Center for the Study of
Human Rights invite you to the:
Business and Human Rights
Roundtable:
Internship Experiences in Venezuela, Brazil, Botswana
and Indonesia
Seven second-year human rights concentrators
who spent last summer working in the field where human rights and
business intersect. The students will talk about their work with
Shell and BP (Venezuela), Aceh Pharmaceutical (Brazil), BP
(Botswana) and Freeport and Rio Tinto (Indonesia).
Moderated
by: Professor J. Paul Martin
Director of the Center
for the Study of Human Rights, Professor of the Research Colloquium
on Human Rights & International Business in a Global
Economy.
Monday, November 12, 1-2pm
Room 1101 School of
International and Public Affairs
The SIPA Human Rights Program and the Humanitarian Affairs
Program invite you to the:
Weekly Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs Coffee Hour
Come join fellow students
and faculty for informal gathering over cookies and coffee. All are
welcome.
Thursday, November 8, 5:00-6:00 pm.
Lindsay
Rogers Room, 7th Floor, School of International and Public
Affairs
The 2001-2002 Human Rights Speaker Series-Human Rights: From
Inspiration to Impact
Human Rights Defenders in Times of
Crisis
with Hina Jilani
Special
Representative to the United Nations Secretary General on Human
Rights Defenders and long time activist from Pakistan
November
8, 2001, 12:00 pm - 1:25 pm
101 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia
University Law School
Organized by the Columbia Law School Human
Rights Institute, in conjunction with the SIPA Human Rights Program,
the Columbia College Human Rights Program and the Center for the
Study of Human Rights. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute at
Columbia University and the Human Rights Defenders Office of the
International Service for Human Rights.
The Center for the Study of Human Rights and the SIPA Human
Rights Program invite you to a brown bag discussion on:
The
Fate of Human Rights and Democracy under the Leadership of
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri
with John
Rumbiak
Of the Institute for Human Rights Studies and
Advocacy in Irian Jaya and Former Participant in the Human Rights
Advocates Training Program.
moderated by Joe
Saunders
Deputy Director, Asia Division,Human Rights
Watch
Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 12:30pm to 2 pm
Room
1118 International Affairs Building.
The Economic and Political Development Concentration, along with
the Human Rights Program, the Middle East Institute and the
Humanitarian Affairs Program present:
Humanitarian challenges
for ensuring that women in Pakistan and Afghanistan have protection
and access to emergency supplies during armed conflicts.
with
Maha Muna
Deputy Director of Women's Commission for
refugee women and children
and Sippi Azarbaijani
Moghadam
Technical Advisor on Gender covering Pakistan
and Afghanistan.
Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 12:30pm to
2:00pm
Room 1118, International Affairs Building
September-October 2001
SIPA HRP Potluck Dinner
October 16, 7:30pm
For address and other information, please e-mail Maya Ileto, mi245@columbia.edu
The SIPA Human Rights Program, in association with Human Rights Watch, presents a screening of the award winning film about
Afghanistan:
JUNG: In the Land of the Mujaheddin
Tuesday, October 9, 6:30-8:30pm
Altschul Auditorium, SIPA
Directed by Alberto Vendemmiati and Fabrizio Lazzaretti,
Winner of the 2001 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Nestor Almendros Prize
The 2001-2002 Human Rights Speaker Series-Human Rights: From Inspiration to Impact
Abuses of Education in Promoting Warfare and Violence, and Human Rights Responses
with Katarina Tomasevski
Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia Law School
Organized by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, in conjunction with the SIPA Human Rights Program, the Columbia College Human Rights Program and the Center for the Study of Human Rights.
The SIPA Human Rights Program Presents:
Universal Jurisdiction, Terrorism and the Movement towards an International Criminal Court
with
Bruce Broomhall
Director, International Justice Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Room 1134, International Affairs Building
The 2001-2002 Human Rights Speaker Series-Human Rights: From Inspiration to Impact
The Fight Against Terrorism and Its Human Rights Implications
with David Cole
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
and Michael Ratner
Tuesday, October 2, 2001,12:15pm - 1:25pm
Room 101, Jerome Greene Hall (Columbia Law School)
Organized by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, in conjunction with the SIPA Human Rights Program, the Center for the Study of Human Rights and the Center for Public Interest Law.
The SIPA Human Rights Program and the Southern Asian Institute present:
Working in the War Zone: Human Rights on the Jaffna Peninsula
with Father Bernard
Chairman, Justice and Peace Commission, Catholic Diocese;
Headmaster, St. Patrick's College, Jaffna, Sri Lanka; and Vice President, People's Council for Peace and Good Will
Room 1134, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street, NY
The Jaffna Peninsula is ground zero in the battle between Tamil separatists and the Sri Lankan government. Father Bernard will give a brief introduction to the background of the conflict in Sri Lanka, then speak about the current situation and human rights advocacy in Jaffna today