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Harvard Bookstore Event: Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?

Harvard Bookstore 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

Harvard Book Store welcomes renowned human rights lawyer and Harvard scholar and professor JACQUELINE BHABHA (and FXB research director) for a discussion of her latest book, Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?. About Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced worldwide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global…

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Gender and Sexuality (rescheduled to 10/24)

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Nigeria: A Personal Perspective  with Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun has been rescheduled to October 24 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Nigeria: A Personal Perspective

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Photo: Cover, Romeo Oriogun's book, Burnt Men; photo by Chibuihe-Light Obi Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun, Nigerian poet, Artist Protection Fund & SAR Fellow In Nigeria to be Queer and vocal means to live in danger, as society forces to conform to what it knows as normalcy which in reality is a remnant of colonization. There is no safe space and Queer people are arrested, lynched and in some cases burnt to…

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Improving Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: Findings and Recommendations from a 10-year Longitudinal Study in Cambodia

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai, PhD, MSSW Carr Center Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School WIPs are an opportunity for researchers to share their work while it is still in formulation. A WIP generally starts with a formal presentation, followed by a lively question-and-answer period. The series is open to all Harvard affiliates. If you are a member of the general public, please email Lena Ransohoff a few days in advance.

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Northeastern Law Event – Rethinking Borders

Northeastern University School of Law 65 Forsyth Street, 240 Dockser Hall, Boston, MA, United States

Northeastern University School of Law Event - Rethinking Borders: Climate Change, Migration, and Human Rights Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research and Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, will be the keynote speaker (11:45am - 1:15pm) at this all-day event,"Rethinking Borders: Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights." Sponsored by the Northeastern University Law Review in this year's symposium, the  participants…

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GHP Brown Bag – Healthcare (Data) for All: A Roadmap for India

GHP Conference Room, 1208, Building 1 665 Huntington Ave, Boston

This event in the Brown Bag Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard Chan Department of Global Health and Population, features Dr. Satchit Balsari, assistant professor in emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard FXB Fellow. In India, as around the world, there is vast excitement about the power of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in advancing healthcare delivery. And yet, the vast majority…

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Human Rights and Turkish Healthcare

FXB 710 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Dr. Yüksel is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and former Director of the Psychosocial Trauma Program at the School of Medicine, University of Istanbul. She is also a founding member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Her clinical work and research have spanned the treatment of sexual and physical violence survivors, torture survivors, mass violence survivors and transgender persons and their families. In this presentation, Dr. Yüksel will discuss…

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“On Her Shoulders” Film Screening

In honor of 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) invite you to a film screening of "On Her Shoulders" which explores the activism of 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad. The film follows the life and activism of Nadia Murad who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, just after…

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Invisible Hands Film Screening

Kresge G1 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Award-winning documentary and New York Times Critic’s Pick INVISIBLE HANDS exposes child labor and trafficking within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations, which produce some of our most loved items. Join us for a film screening of INVISIBLE HANDS followed by a PANEL DISCUSSION. Film Screening: 5:30PM EST (2:30PM PST) Panel Discussion: 7:00PM EST (4:00PM PST) PANEL DETAILS MODERATOR:  Mary Bassett, Director, Harvard FXB Center PANELISTS: Shraysi Tandon,…

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International Roma Day Watch Party on Facebook

  Because of the coronavirus, we had to reschedule our planned event for International Roma Day, Intersectional Discrimination: the Roma Case. It would have been the eighth annual International Roma Day event at Harvard. But we cannot let the day pass without marking it.   To honor the day the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host a Facebook "Watch Party" at 10 AM…

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