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Seminar on Landmines and Global Society--Susannah Sirkin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and)
Wed May 2 21:02:15 2001
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The M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and Justice is pleased to announce the
following seminar of the Spring 2001 Speaker Series:
"Landmines and Global Society"
Susannah Sirkin
Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2:30-4:00PM
CIS, 6th Floor Conference Room
Building E38, 292 Main Street
(Adjacent to Kendall-M.I.T. Inbound "T" Stop)
Co-sponsored by the Security Studies Program
Refreshments will be provided.
Open to the public.
For more information, please contact: phrj@mit.edu, http://mit.edu/phrj
Susannah Margaret Sirkin
Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a
national organization of health professionals, scientists and concerned
citizens that brings the skills of medicine and science to the prevention
of human rights violations and the promotion of international human rights.
She has held this position since 1987 when she joined the organization's
staff. Previously, she was Director of Membership Programs for Amnesty
International USA. Ms. Sirkin has organized medical human rights
investigations to dozens of countries, including PHR's exhumations of mass
graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for the International Criminal
Tribunals. She has authored and edited numerous reports and articles on the
medical consequences of human rights violations, physical evidence of human
rights abuses, and physician complicity in violations. In 1992, Ms. Sirkin
co-directed the first post-graduate course in medicine and human rights
sponsored by Harvard Medical School. She currently serves for PHR as a
member of the Coordination Committee of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines, the co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace. PHR is one
of the six original non-governmental organizations that launched the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1992. Sirkin is a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College and received a Master of Education at Boston University.
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The M.I.T. Program on Human Rights and Justice is pleased to announce the
following seminar of the Spring 2001 Speaker Series:<br>
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<b>"Landmines and Global Society"<br>
Susannah Sirkin<br>
Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)<br>
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</b>Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2:30-4:00PM<br>
CIS, 6th Floor Conference Room<br>
Building E38, 292 Main Street<br>
(Adjacent to Kendall-M.I.T. Inbound "T" Stop)<br>
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Co-sponsored by the Security Studies Program<br>
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Refreshments will be provided.<br>
Open to the public.<br>
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For more information, please contact: phrj@mit.edu,
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<b><u>Susannah Margaret Sirkin<br>
</u></b>Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights
(PHR), a national organization of health professionals, scientists and
concerned citizens that brings the skills of medicine and science to the
prevention of human rights violations and the promotion of international
human rights. She has held this position since 1987 when she joined the
organization's staff. Previously, she was Director of Membership Programs
for Amnesty International USA. Ms. Sirkin has organized medical human
rights investigations to dozens of countries, including PHR's exhumations
of mass graves in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for the International
Criminal Tribunals. She has authored and edited numerous reports and
articles on the medical consequences of human rights violations, physical
evidence of human rights abuses, and physician complicity in violations.
In 1992, Ms. Sirkin co-directed the first post-graduate course in
medicine and human rights sponsored by Harvard Medical School. She
currently serves for PHR as a member of the Coordination Committee of the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the co-recipient of the 1997
Nobel Prize for Peace. PHR is one of the six original non-governmental
organizations that launched the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
in 1992. Sirkin is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and received a
Master of Education at Boston University. <br>
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