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Courtesy Yiheng Feng                                  Courtesy Ye Shiwei                                                                            Courtesy Yiheng Feng                             

PANEL DISCUSSION: HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in China
Speakers: Prof. Jerome Cohen (NYU School of Law), moderator; Li Dan (China Orchid AIDS Projects), Gao Qi (China AIDS Information Network), and Joe Amon (HIV/AIDS Program, Human Rights Watch),
When: Thursday, July 17th – 7:30-9 pm
Where:
LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Aves
In the run-up to the XVII International AIDS Conference, meet to hear from leading AIDS experts on the challenges faced by civil society in China's fight against AIDS.

    COMRADES: THE CHINESE LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
September 5-7, 2008
A weekend showcase of four amazing films from Beijing. Click here for more info and tickets.


 Women migrant labor panel   

past events:

2008
may 27, 2008    film and discussion: Who Killed Chea Vichea? Cambodia Labor Rights Under Attack
april 23, 2008    film and discussion: Song Journeys: The Impact of Chinese Ethnic Tourism   
Screening of a documentary, "Mosuo Song Journeys", with discussion led by Prof. Robert Barnett (Columbia University) and Khanan Sam Sao (Columbia University). Co-sponsored by Greater China Initiative and Columbia University Asia-Pacific Affairs Council.
april 4, 2008    film and discussion Prisoner of Freedom City: Hu Jia   
At Casa Frela, 47 West 119th Street. Co-sponsored by freeDimensional.
march 25, 2008    discussion: Asian Women on the Move: Forced Labor and Migration    Nisha Varia (Human Rights Watch) and Carolyn deLeone (Domestic Workers United). Co-sponsored by Columbia University Asia-Pacific Affairs Council.
february 27, 2008    film    Crossing the Line    Screening at NYU Law School. Co-sponsored by NYU Asia Law Society and Columbia University Asia-Pacific Affairs Council.
january 23, 2008    discussion: China’s 17th Party Congress: Did Anything Change?
 
Prof. Andrew Nathan (Columbia) & Prof. Bernard Yeung (NYU)
2007
october 15, 2007    discussion:
Burma: Where Next? A Roundtable on the Saffron Revolution  Josh Kurlantzick, Dr. Thaung Htun, and Maureen Aung-Thwin; New York University. Co-sponsored by NYU Asia Law Society and NYU Law Students for Human Rights.
september 6, 2007    asia catalyst report release: AIDS Blood Scandals: What China Can Learn From the World's Mistakes
june 28, 2007   
asia catalyzer: Getting into bed with China: Human rights and China’s foreign policy in Africa and Burma
Featuring Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Council on Foreign Relations, and Dr. Thaung Htun, UN representative for Burmese government in exile
april 28, 2007     discussion: Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, authors of Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha [中国农民调查], or Will the Boat Sink the Water?
march 8, 2007    asia catalyzer, featuring Gao Yikun from China Orchid AIDS Projects.


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