Commemorating Human Rights Day
Sunday, December 10 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Dashed Hopes: Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union
A community-wide Public Event in Observance of International Human Rights
Day
4:00 p.m.: Babitsky's War, an hour long film about the efforts of the
Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky to cover the war in Chechnya.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Alexander Verkhovsky and
Tatiana Lokshina, two human rights activists from Moscow.
7:00 p.m.: Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Jack Matlock
former U.S. ambassdor to the
Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan
His book Reagan and Gorbachev is a seminal work on the dramatic events
surrounding Gorbachev's reforms and the eventual break-up of the Soviet
Union.
Following Ambassador Matlock's speech, there will be a panel
discussion with:
Nikolai Butkevich, Researcher, Union of Councils for Jews in the
former Soviet Union
Nozima Kamalova, Legal Aid Society in Uzbekistan Scholar at Risk
program, Harvard University
Tatiana Lokshina, DEMOS Center, Moscow
sponsors
American Jewish Committee
Amnesty International USA
Anti-Defamation League
Boston University Institute for Human Sciences
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Facing History and Ourselves
Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
International Committee for the Children of Chechnya
Jewish Community Relations Council
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Physicians for Human Rights
Sakharov Human Rights Program, Davis Center for Russianand Eurasian
Studies
We would like to express our gratitude to the Reebok Foundation for its
generous support of this program.
DECEMBER 10 - PARKING All guests coming to the "Human Rights Day" are
welcome to use the Boston University - School of Management Parking from
3pm to 9:30pm. There is a single charge of $6 for the duration of the event
(pay on entry).
Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/northeastern/humanrightsday12102006.html