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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 Senior Fellow Sheri Fink has cover story published in the New York Times Magazine What went wrong in evacuations at hospitals during the Hurricane Katrina crisis? How do moral and ethical considerations change in crises? In "Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices," HHI's Sheri Fink investigates the difficult decisions staff members at Memorial Hospital had to face in the hours following the Hurricane Katrina crisis, the charges brought against them, and the continuing debate about civil and criminal liability for health workers during disasters. Her 13,000-word investigative report has drawn a great amount of attention from readers and media professionals alike. You can watch a video interview of Sheri Fink with the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, read the NY Times Editor's Letter about the article, listen to Sheri Fink on NPR's All Things Considered and Here & Now, and look into the many multimedia accompaniments to the article ProPublica has published on their website. Why such a detailed investigative report four years after the humanitarian crisis in Louisiana? According to the NY Times, "the issues surrounding medical care in such dire situations require a public conversation our country has yet to really have." We hope you'll take a moment to read Sheri Fink's article and consider the important issues raised and their implications for improving future humanitarian response to crises.
HHI's Jocelyn Kelly blogs on Change.org about male rape in the DRC
Rape as a weapon of war in the DRC does not affect only women. While rape against men has been occurring for years in the DRC, there has been a recent increase in the rate of male rape.Like
women, men of all ages seem to be targeted. To read Jocelyn Kelly's review of Jeffrey Gettleman's piece in the New York Times about male rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo and to view her own commentary, click here: " Rape in the Congo: Now It's Everybody's Problem".
Harvard's Hauser Center for
Nonprofit Organizations to Convene International Criminal
Justice Conference at UN Headquarters
The Hauser Center for
Nonprofit Organizations is convening a Conference on International Criminal Justice September 9-11, 2009 at the United Nations
Headquarters in New York City.
"The goal of this
conference is to allow a range of key international justice actors to openly
consult on mutually reinforcing strategies for the next few years," said
Professor Stone, the Hauser Center Faculty
Director and Kennedy School Criminal Justice Professor. "If the international criminal justice system is to really
take hold over the next decade, the networks on which it depends- networks
among states, among NGOs, among international bodies-must also be strengthened and, when possible, better aligned."
The conference will be
an opportunity for academics and practitioners to examine criminal justice together and come to a better understanding of the work and
impact of the international justice system. HHI's Jennifer Leaning will be among the participants.
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UPCOMING EVENTS at HARVARD
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Event times, dates, and locations listed here are subject to change without notice. Please contact the event host for more information.
Center for International Development's Annual Open House
Tuesday, September 8th, 3:30pm Alison Dining Room 5th Floor Taubman Building
Visit the CID's Open House to find out more about what the Center for International Development will be working on this year. More information about this and other CID events can be found here: www.cid.harvard.edu/events
State Building & Human Rights: Afghanistan
& Pakistan
Tuesday, September 15th, 4pm Carr Center Conference Room Harvard Kennedy School
Join the Carr Center for Human Rights for their ongoing public speaker series. This week, Rory Stewart joins for a discussion on state-building and human rights. More information about this and other Carr Center events can be found by clicking here.
The H1N1 Outbreak Pandemic and Global Health Security
Wednesday, September 16, 12:30 - 1:30 PM Kresge Building, G1/Snyder Auditorium Harvard School of Public Health 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
The Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health
Preparedness (HSPH-CPHP) is pleased to present the first lecture of the
2009-2010 CPHP Speaker Series. Dean Julio Frenk will share his
expertise with the Harvard community and discuss the recent public
health response to the H1N1 outbreak. The HSPH-CPHP Speaker Series is presented by the Division of Public Health Practice and the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness and
is designed to engage HSPH students with public health practitioners
and to educate regarding preparedness activities. All students,
faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend.
For more details, please contact Giulia Del Guercio Green at: [email protected] or 617-496-0714 or http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcphp
Study Group on Human Rights and Social
Movements
Friday, September 18th, 3:30pm Carr Center Conference Room Harvard Kennedy School
Join Timothy McCarthy for a study group on human rights and social movements. More information about this and other Carr Center events can be found by clicking here.
Global Voices 8th Annual Film Festival: Powerful International Documentaries
Thursday, October 8th-Sunday, October 11th
Harvard Film Archive, Brattle Theatre and Harvard Kennedy School Join the Harvard Film Archive, Brattle Theatre, and Harvard Kennedy School for a weekend of powerful international documentary films
dealing with issues from the plight of migrant farm workers in the US
to interpretations of Islam in Syria, and from the complexities of
water use in developed countries to the role of widows in India. The
Global Voices Film Festival presents films capturing the lives of
people around the world. Don't
miss this collection of Global Voices presented by United Nations
Association of Greater Boston and Harvard Kennedy School New England
Alumni Association, for the first time showcasing international
documetaries from the Cannes Film Festival.
For more information, visit Global Voices: United Nations Association Film Festival.
The First International
Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM)
Thursday, October 15 - Sunday, October18, 2009 John Carroll University
The ICCM will bring together over 60 leading organizations comprising the most engaged crisis-mapping practitioners, scholars and platform developers from around the world to showcase and advance the cutting edge of the Crisis Mapping field. The conference will involve a mix of TED-style presentations on crisis mapping, participant organized sessions, and a Tech Fair for an opportunity to experience the technology that has helped to drive the field forward.
Bringing together the most engaged crisis-mapping practitioners, scholars and platform developers from around the world the conference will showcase and advance the cutting edge of Crisis Mapping. This will be the first time that world experts will directly engage with each other as a crisis mapping community to formalize the field and define the future of Crisis Mapping. The conference will also provide important opportunities for participants to partner on current and future projects.
For additional information visit: http://www.CrisisMapping.net
Physicians for Human Rights Regional Advocacy Institute
Saturday, November 7th, 9:30am-4:30pm Harvard Medical School
PHR Regional Institutes are geared toward instilling a heightened awareness of each student's advocacy power, helping them make new connections, and sharing ideas for taking action during the academic year. This event is open to the public.
Sessions and speakers will include:
- PHR: Our Role & Our Impact: Sarah Kalloch, Outreach and Constituency Organizing Director, PHR
- "Clean Needles Save Lives: Why and What We Can Do": Paola Barahona, Senior Global Health Advocate, PHR
- "Health and Human Rights Education" Panel & Breakout
- Leading student activists presenting on sessions such as "Organizing Effective Events" and "Building Relationships with your Member of Congress"
For more information, please email Danielle Fox, PHR Student Program Coordinator, at [email protected] or visit www.knowdareact.org.
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
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- Aschkenas MT, Bateman LP, Chan JL, Copen K, Greenough PG, Moran GN. "Impact of Hermetically Sealed Wells on Diarrheal Illness Among Flood-Affected Rural Communities." To be presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting on Water and Public Health, November 11, 2009.
- Baldauf, Scott. "Is Sudan sharing its oil wealth properly?" The Christian Science Monitor, September 7, 2009.
- Bhatt, Mihir, eds. "Recovering
Slums: Determinants of Poverty and Upward Social Mobility in Urban Slums: Case
Studies from India." University of Basel, 2008.
- Burkle FM, eds. "Fragile States and Ungoverned Spaces." Global Strategic Assessment 2009, Institute for National Strategic Studies.
- DeWaal A, eds. "AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses." AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative Report. To be launched September 21-22, 2009.
- DeWaal A, eds. "African Union High-Level Panel Report on Darfur." To be given to the AU Peace and Security Council on September 15, 2009.
Fink, Sheri. All Things Considered, NPR, August 27, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. Dart Center Interview. August 27, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. Patt Morrison program, KPCC, August 27, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, August 28, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. Morning Joe, MSNBC, August 28, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. Democracy Now, August 31, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. To the Point, KCRW, August 31, 2009.
- Fink, Sheri. Here and Now, WBUR, September 1, 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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