A TOWN HALL MEETING at Boston University Accountable to Humanity: Justice in Darfur Please join us in attending a Town Hall Meeting at Boston University! Writer and activist on African issues is a Fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard and Director of Justice Africa, London.
In his career, he has studied the social, political and health
dimensions of genocide, especially in the Horn of Africa. He has been
at the forefront of mobilizing African and international responses to
these issues, including the African Union mediation in Darfur. Panelists Moderator Deputy Director for Physicians for Human Rights, organized investigations and documentation of genocide and systematic rape in Darfur The Panelist discussion will be followed by a special presentation by war photographer Ron Haviv.
Keynote Speaker
Alex de Waal
Jennifer Learning
Co-Director of the Harvard
Humanitarian Initiative; expert researcher on human rights and
humanitarian law; documented evidence of destruction on Darfur
Rev. Gloria White-Hammond
Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church.
She has served in medical missions, helped free enslaved Sudanese women
and children, and continues to achieve global impact as a humanitarian.
Omer Ismail
A native of Sudan and fellow at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Co-founder of Darfur Peace and Development Organization.
Susannah Sirkin
Where:
Boston University
College of General Studies Auditorium
871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
When:
Tuesday, December 5, 6:30 PM
Cost:
Free
Sponsored by:
*BUSPH Rotaract * BU Student Global Health Organization *Global Health Initiative at BU * BU President Robert Brown* Dean Robert Meenan * BU African Studies Center* BUSM IHO* SCOMSA* BUSPH Health and Human Rights Caucus * BU Public Health Initiative * Center for Intl Health and Development * MA Save Darfur Coalition* Physicians for Human Rights* BU School of Public Health*
For more information about this event please contact: jirair@bu.edu, echurch@bu.edu or visit people.bu.edu/rotaract