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The Harvard Humanitarian is a monthly e-newsletter compiled by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) to publicize news, publications, and events in the Harvard community related to advancing responses to humanitarian crises of war and disaster. Please help us make this a robust resource by contributing your Harvard community news items via email.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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HHI Interviews Militia in eastern Democratic Republic of CongoAs part of Change.org's investigation into Rape as a Weapon of War, HHI's Gender-based Violence Research Coordinator Jocelyn Kelly blogs about her experience interviewing soldiers who have committed rape.
Jennifer Leaning to Speak at the Lancet's Special Series LaunchThe Lancet
will launch a much-anticipated special report on the long-term health
issues in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Wednesday, March 4.
Jennifer Leaning will speak at the launch and comment on the policy
implications of the research. She serves on the steering committee for
this series. For more information, see The Lancet.
"Women, War and Displacement" Series Will Feature Jocelyn KellyIn partnership with various groups at Saint Michael's College, The
Vermont Global Health Coalition (VGHC) will host Jocelyn Kelly on March
4th who will give a talk titled "Rape as a Weapon of War: Violence
against Women in Eastern Congo." War and Human Rights Talk Now OnlineJennifer
Leaning's February talk entitled "War and Human Rights in Africa:
Insights from Darfur/Chad, DRC, and Liberia," can be viewed here.
HSPH Professor Tracks Sierra Lione's Child Soldiers
As a doctoral student in 2002, Theresa Betancourt began studying a sample of child soldiers in Sierra Lione to determine how mentally healthy or ill the children were years after the country's war ended. Now as an assistant professor of child health and human rights at HSPH, Betancourt hopes her final analysis will provide useful information for other countries undergoing violence, so that better policies might be enacted to protect children. Betancourt's research and findings were recently profiled in Harvard Magazine. The article about her work, titled "Helping Those Most In Need" can be accessed by clicking here.
GSK CEO Announces Greater Aid for Poor Countries During Speech at HMS
At a speech given at Harvard Medical School on February 13, GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Willy announced GSK's plan to reduce drug prices in the world's 50 poorest countries to levels no higher than 25% of the price in the developed world, and to invest 20% of its profits
from sales in those countries in infrastructure development.
He also proposed that drug companies and other research organizations
establish an intellectual property (IP) pool for patents related to
neglected tropical diseases. Click here to read more about Willy's speech.
The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Lecture Now Online The discussion, featuring Justice Richard Goldstone
of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and moderated by Professor
Nancy L. Rosenblum, chair of the Department of Government , can be viewed on YouTube by clicking here.
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UPCOMING EVENTS at HARVARD
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listed here are subject to change without notice. Please contact the
event host for more information.
Responsibility to Protect or Irresponsibility to
Neglect?
Tuesday, March 3, 12pm - 2pm
Malkin Penthouse
Challenges and promising practices in monitoring and investigating human rights violations in situations of armed conflict, with a focus on Africa.
Panelists from the UN, military and NGO sectors will address the topics of mandates, principles of investigating and monitoring, technical capacities of monitors, and networking and information sharing, and binding investigating bodies as means for improving the protection of civilians.
Panelists:
- Major Dan Kuwali, Carr Center Fellow
- Bonnie Docherty; Human Rights Watch, Carr Center
- Paul Bonard; former Deputy Head of the Protection and Tracing Division, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Gloria Gaggioli; Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
- Andrea Rossi; Measurement and Human Rights Program
Contact email
Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence in the Balkans
March 5, 2009, 12:15-2:00 p.m
Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
Brown Bag Lunch Series:
International Security Brown Bag Seminar
Open to the Public
Speaker: Linda Kirschke, Research Fellow, International Security/Intrastate Conflict Programs
This
seminar will examine the rise of ethnic cleansing during periods of
regime change. It will investigate why, during the 1990s multiparty
transitions, ruling elites in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the
former Yugoslavia sponsored large-scale, ethnic cleansing, whereas in
Romania, leaders did not employ this tactic. The session will posit
that during transitions, ruling parties which reject reform and are
internally stable-with steady cooperation among elites and a developed
party organization-are more likely to employ ethnic cleansing.
Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis.
Contact:
ISP Program Coordinator
International Security Program
79 John F. Kennedy St., Mailbox 53
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Email: susan_lynch@ksg.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-1981
Fax: 617-495-8963
Url: http://www.belfercenter.org/ISP/
Carr Center 2008-2009 Wednesday Speaker Series: Universal Declaration of Human Rights Articles
In Honor of the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Carr Center's Wednesday Speaker Series for 2008-2009 will focus on its 30 Articles.
Wednesdays from 12:00-1:30PM
Carr Center
conference room
Rubenstein Building - 219
Brown bag lunch
Wednesday, March 4 will cover
UDHR Article 19,
the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Michael O'Flaherty,
Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co-director of the Human Rights
Law Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education, University
of Nottingham and member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee will lead the discussion.
Wednesday, March 11
will cover UDHR Article 23, bthe right to work.
Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy,
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School
will lead the discussion.
Wednesday, March 18 will cover
UDHR Article 25, the right to an adequate standard of living.
Howard Zinn, Boston University, emeritus faculty
will lead the discussion.
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
International Women's Day
Sunday, March 8th 2009, 2:30 PM Q&A / Film Screening
The YWCA
140 Clarendon Street
Kuumba Library, 2nd Floor
Copley Square
Winner of the Special Jury Prize Documentary, 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Jane Ngondo, an activist from the Congo will provide testimony and
report. This event will also include a PowerPoint presentation about
the role of multinational corporations in the Congo and ideas for local
community action.
More than five million people have been killed in the ongoing Congolese
war and thousands of women and girls raped and mutilated.
Break the Silence - End the Violence
For More Info: Contact Boston WILPF
Email: joanecklein@comcast.net OR
Email: pat.aron@verizon.net
Sponsors: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Boston & NY Metro and Friends of the Congo
Co-Sponsor: The Center for New Words
Torture and Democracy: What Now?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Tsai Auditorium
Harvard Center for Government and International Studies
1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker:
Darius Rejali
Professor of Political Science, Reed College
Moderated by:
Jacqueline Bhabha
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
With support from the Hauser Foundation and the Office of Undergraduate Education, Harvard College.
This event is free and open to the public.
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Harvard Book Store's Winter Author Event Series
Thursday, March 12, 2008, 7PM-8PM
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
This event is free and open to the public
Royal African Society Director, Richard Dowden will discuss his new book Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles.
After
a lifetime's close observation of the continent, Dowden has penned a landmark book on life and
death in modern Africa. Dowden spins tales of
cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra
Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the internet on Nigeria and aid
on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Zimbabwe,
Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo. From the individual stories of failure
and success comes a surprising portrait of a new Africa emerging-an
Africa that, Dowden argues, can only be developed by its own people.
Dowden's work is an attempt to explain why Africa is the way it is and
calls for a re-examination of the perception of Africa as "the dark
continent." He reveals it as a place of inspiration and tremendous
humanity.
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
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- Naples-Mitchell, Joanna. "When Justice and Power Converge." The Crimson, 19 Feb 2009.
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About The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
HHI fosters interdisciplinary collaboration at Harvard University in order to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection, and prevention; instill human rights principles and practices in these strategies; and educate and train the next generation of humanitarian leaders. In 2005, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative was established as a University-wide interfaculty academic and research center, supported by the Office of the Provost and the Harvard School of Public Health with the participation of faculty from Harvard schools and affiliated hospitals. For more information, visit www.hhi.harvard.edu.
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