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The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: Implications of Statelessness

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

Harvard FXB's Work-in-Progress (WIP) Series will start the semester with a presentation of Dr. Balsari's recent research with the Rohingya in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh. 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. FXB Center researchers have conducted a series of studies among the Rohingya in Cox’s Bazaar since…

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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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Mittal Institute Event: Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar

CGIS South, S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, United States

Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: Evidence and Accountability In the final weeks before the massive 2017 Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, reports indicate that the vast majority of Rohingya settlements suffered violence, often extreme, at the hands of Myanmar security forces and civilians. As part of a large-scale and unique research effort to determine the scope, scale, and patterns of these attacks, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) surveyed leaders from 604 Rohingya…

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Them and Us: How Much Good Do We Do?

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

Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, PhD Humanitarian psychiatrist Dr Lynne Jones will reflect on 25 years of establishing mental health programs in humanitarian emergencies. Dr. Lynne Jones is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker. Jones has been engaged in assessing mental health needs and establishing and running mental health services in disaster, conflict, and post-conflict settings since 1990 around the world. Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of…

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Jacqueline Bhabha

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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Why Should “We” Help “Them”? The Politics of Search and Rescue on the Mediterranean Sea

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

Hernan Del Valle, Doctors Without Borders, Radcliffe Inst. Fellow Hernan del Valle has led humanitarian aid operations for the past 15 years. His work has taken him across five continents assisting people affected by armed conflict and forced displacement. He was involved in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations in the Mediterranean Sea, which over the past three years rescued tens of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing Libya toward Europe…

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FXB Work-in-Progress: “The dog lives in a home. How come we live in tents?” The migrant child storytelling project

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

For the last three years, humanitarian psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Jones has been working with migrant children from around the world, who are living in Greece, Italy, France, Mexico, and Belize. She has created storytelling workshops in which children are encouraged to express themselves in any medium they choose: photography, film, drawing, words or a combination. The results are exhibited locally with children selecting their own contributions, which are also displayed…

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