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Seminar on Women Refugees Applying for Asylum--December 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and)
Thu Nov 29 17:41:28 2001
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The M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and Justice
Announces its seventh seminar for fall 2001
Professor Deborah Anker
Harvard Law School and author of Law of Asylum in the United States
(Refugee Law Center, 1998)
"Women Refugees Applying for Asylum: Successes and Emerging Challenges"
Tuesday, December 4, 4:00-5:30PM
CIS | 6th Floor Conference Room | Bldg. E38 | 292 Main Street
The talk is open to the public.
Refreshments will be provided.
Profile of Professor Deborah Anker
Deborah Anker, with 20 years of experience teaching, lecturing, writing,
and practicing in the field, is one of the leading authorities on asylum
law and gender-based persecution in the United States. A lecturer on law at
Harvard Law School, she is the Harvard Director for the Harvard Immigration
and Refugee Clinic and supervises clinical students for the law school's
human rights program. She also heads the Women Refugees Project, an
internationally recognized program, that does groundbreaking work on
women's international human rights and political asylum claims.
Her research and writing focus on women immigrants and women refugees. The
third edition of her treatise, Law of Asylum in the United States, was
recently published, as were three articles she co-authored on refugee
issues. She started the nonprofit Refugee Law Center, Inc., with two
colleagues.
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Justice<br>
Announces its seventh seminar for fall 2001<br>
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<br>
Professor Deborah Anker<br>
Harvard Law School and author of <i>Law of Asylum in the United States
</i>(Refugee Law Center, 1998)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
“Women Refugees Applying for Asylum: Successes and Emerging
Challenges”<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Tuesday, December 4, 4:00-5:30PM<br>
CIS | 6th Floor Conference Room | Bldg. E38 | 292 Main Street<br>
<br>
<br>
The talk is open to the public.<br>
Refreshments will be provided.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<u>Profile of Professor Deborah Anker<br>
</u>Deborah Anker, with 20 years of experience teaching, lecturing,
writing, and practicing in the field, is one of the leading authorities
on asylum law and gender-based persecution in the United States. A
lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, she is the Harvard Director for
the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and supervises clinical
students for the law school's human rights program. She also heads
the Women Refugees Project, an internationally recognized program, that
does groundbreaking work on women's international human rights and
political asylum claims. <br>
<br>
Her research and writing focus on women immigrants and women refugees.
The third edition of her treatise, <i>Law of Asylum in the United
States,</i> was recently published, as were three articles she
co-authored on refugee issues. She started the nonprofit Refugee Law
Center, Inc., with two colleagues.<br>
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