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Past Events: 2012 2009 2008
 | Global Health and Human Rights Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 6pm 4-231"Accountability for What?: Exploring the Added Value of Applying A Human Rights Framework to Global Health Problems"Professor Alicia Yamin is an instructor in Law & Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Executive Editor of the Health and Human Rights Journal. In addition, she is a Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow. |
 | Bhopal Mela December 6, 2008 | 7pm Wong AuditoriumPerformers include: MIT Tango, MIT Swara - Camatic music, Bollywood number: Govinda and Raveena, MIT Resonance acapella group, South Asian Dance groups: Triveni Bharatnatyam, BU Giddha, Kuchipudi, Mohiniattam. Funds go to the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal working to assure justice and a life of dignity for the survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster. For more information, visit Boston4Bhopal.Cost: $20 / $10 Students |
 | Fight Malaria Benefit Concert Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 8pm Wong AuditoriumAn evening full of FOOD and a fantastic CONCERT featuring a variety of talented groups while supporting a great cause! All proceeds donated to the Against Malaria Foundation.$7 Presale / $10 At The DoorFeaturing: Chorallaries of MIT, MIT Resonance, MIT Ballroom Dance Team, SupaDupa, BAP Korean Drumming, MIT Lion Dance, MIT Salsa |
 | ¡Salud! Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | 6pm 6-120A FREE Screening and Dinner! ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, ¡Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone’s birth right. |
 | Labeled Disabled October 15, 2008 | 7pm 6-120Amnesty International is holding its first free movie screening of the year. The director of the movie, Maggie Doben, will be at the event as well to answer your questions after the movie. Food will be provided!Labeled Disabled addresses curriculum that challenges those biases and demonstrates, through first hand experience that they are stereotypes, not reality. Watch what actually happens in the classroom as children discuss and challenge prejudice.In conjunction with anti-bias education and the idea that knowledge is best acquired through concrete experience, the viewer witnesses the inspirational progress of children; from what they perceive to be true, to what is true.Through interviews, classroom lessons, and discussion, educators, disabled individuals, parents and students show what this learning can achieve. Experts in the fields of education and disability advocacy will substantiate that learning about disabilities is valuable and life changing for young children. |
 | Human rights in Egypt Monday, September 29, 2008 | 7pm 4-370Nasser Weddady AIC's Civil Rights Outreach Director, originally an anti-slavery activist from Mauritania, have steered high-profile advocacy campaigns on behalf of bloggers and dissidents in the Middle East and North Africa.Weddady has testified to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and lectured at numerous institutions such as the United States Institute for Peace, Harvard's Berkman's Center and has published in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune. He also conducted training seminars within the framework of AIC's Civil Rights initiative (HAMSA) reaching over 100 young activists from over 16 Arab countries.Weddady will specifically talk about the challenges to basic civil and human rights in Egypt along the following themes: Civil Rights institutional and social challenges, Freedom of speech, Women's Rights, Egyptian Bloggers and cyber activism, Religious Freedom. |
 | The Day My God Died May 6, 2008 | 7pm 6-120A FREE Screening. The Day My God Died is a feature-length documentary that presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade. They describe the day they were abducted from their village and sold into sexual servitude as, “The Day My God Died.” |
 | Tibet: Human Rights and Conflict May 8, 2008 | 7pm 6-120Dr. Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. In 2004, he became the first Tibetan (among six million) to earn a Doctorate degree from Harvard Law School. For the last eleven years, Dr. Sangay has organized five unprecedented conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars at Harvard University, including a rare meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and thirty-five Mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. |
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Social Justice Cooperative
MIT Students for Israel Organizations Against Malaria Foundation
Boston4Bhopal
Unite For Sight
Arab Students Organization
MIT Bahá'í Student Association
Center for International Studies
Graduate Student Council
MIT Grad Hillel
Lecture Series Committee
Social Justice Cooperative
MIT Students for Israel Organizations Against Malaria Foundation
Boston4Bhopal
Unite For Sight