INTERNATIONAL LAW CONCENTRATION: NEWS & EVENTS

The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights announces

a Free One-Day Conference

Women’s Mental Health and Well Being:

How Does a Human Rights Perspective Help?

Featured Speakers:

• Women, Mental Health and Prisons: A Human Rights Crisis. Jamie
Fellner, Esq., Human Rights Watch, U.S. Program

• Women Survivors of Torture: The Boston Center for Refugee Health
and Human Rights Experience. Linda Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH, Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights

• Mental Health: A Human Right for Black Women. Evelyn L. Barbee,
RN, PhD. formerly of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

• Mental Health Issues and Resilience among Immigrant Women: The Use
of Community-Based Intervention and Prevention Approaches. Sukanya Ray, PhD. Department of Psychology, Suffolk University

When: January 11, 2007

Where: Suffolk University Law School, Function Room 170, First Floor,

120 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Time: 8:30am-5:00pm

To Register:
Visit www.suffolk.edu/cwhhr, email cwhhr@suffolk.edu,

or call 617-994-4222 to reserve your place and reserve lunch.

CEUs:

• APA CEU credit available for Psychologists and other health
care professionals.

• $60 fee for 6.5 CEU’s (conference is free for all others).

• Accommodations not included.

Who Should Attend?

• Clinicians, students, activists, educators, media,
researchers, and interested members of the public.

Suffolk University Co-Sponsors:
• Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Office of
Diversity Services

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Boston Bar Assocation's 2006 John G. Brooks Public Service Award

Presented to a Suffolk Law School Alumna

The International Law Concentration is pleased to announce that the

Boston Bar Association's 2006 John G. Brooks Public Service Award

was presented to

Anita Sharma,

B.A. Suffolk University 1997

J.D. Suffolk University Law School 2000

Ms. Sharma is the Asylum Staff Attorney for the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) project. She has represented clients from over 75 countries. She has also worked in India where she was on the team that filed a landmark suit against British-American Tobacco and the Indian government for tobacco smuggling.

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The Ford Hall Forum Free Public Lecture and Discussion Series
presents
The Great Firewall of China
with
Ethan Gutman, Hiawatha Bray, and John Jaw


discussion moderated by
Professor Valerie Epps

Thursday, October 12, at 6:30 pm
at
Raytheon Amphitheater, Northeastern University
Egan Center, 120 Forsyth Street, Boston

Admission is free and open to all

This location is wheelchair accessible and conveniently located

at the Northeastern stop on the MBTA Green Line

and the Ruggles stop on the MBTA Orange Line

Convenient parking at Renaissance Parking Garage, 835 Columbus Ave.

For more information call Ford Hall Forum 617-373-5800

or visit www.fordhallforum.org

There is no Google in China – at least not one that is uncensored. Websites are blacklisted – Wikipedia, Blogspot, and the BBC News, to name just a few – and content providers like Yahoo!, AOL, and Skype, censor themselves so that they can operate in the country.

To the dismay of some human rights advocates and media groups, it is principally American firms providing the Chinese government with technology to filter data as it comes and goes. Is there a better way to deal with China’s laws and policies? Is a restricted internet better than no internet al all? And can the “Golden Shield” stand up to a barrage of software designed specifically to circumvent it? The panel featured in Ford Hall Forum’s “The Great Firewall of China” will focus on such concerns and hopefully shed light on the collision between new technologies and the national interests of the world’s most populous country.

Background information on participants:

Ethan Gutman: Author of Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal; former Foreign Policy analyst at the Brookings Institution.
In public forums throughout the world – from Tel Aviv to Taipei and Hong Kong – and in televised press events in Congress, American Enterprise Institute, and the National Press Club, Gutman has attacked US corporate complicity in Chinese Internet censorship and the transfer of surveillance technologies to Chinese state security, while calling for a combined public and private response to China’s Internet crackdown. In addition, he has also written on Chinese security issues, the growth of Chinese nationalism and the US business environment in Beijing for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Washington Times, Red Herring, the Weekly Standard, and other publications. Prior to the publication of his book, Gutman worked in Beijing, serving as Senior Counselor at a leading public affairs firm in China. He also worked with Beijing Television as an executive producer of Chinese-language programs on U.S.-China relations. In the 1990s, Gutman served as Chief Investigator for the America’s Voice Television network in Washington, DC. Previously, he specialized in arms control and dynamic modeling as a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Brookings Institution. Gutman received his B.A. and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Hiawatha Bray: The Boston Globe’s technology reporter; recently named as named as one of the 10 most influential newspaper journalists covering technology by the editors of Marketing Computers magazine.
Bray was born in Chicago and completed a bachelor's degree in economics from Knox College, Galesburg, IL in 1976, worked with the U.S. Postal Service for seven years. On completing a master's degree in communications from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois (IL) in 1985 he started as a reporter and managing editor for Computerpeople Monthly, a Chicago computer magazine.  He then became a reporter and columnist for the Wheaton, IL Daily Journal, where he won numerous awards from the Associated Press, the Inland Daily Press Association, and the Suburban Newspapers of America. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Bray worked at the Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader as a business reporter. During this period, he received a Davenport Fellowship in business journalism at the University of Missouri. He then went to the Detroit Free Press, where he covered banking and technology. His work with a team of journalists on the NBC Dateline pickup-truck scandal won the John Hancock Award for Business Journalism. In addition, he was honored by the National Association of Black Journalists for his work on a series of stories about supermarkets in Detroit. In addition, Mr. Bray received a Jefferson Fellowship for the study of Asian business and politics at the East-West Center in Honolulu. Mr. Bray joined the staff of the Boston Globe in 1995.

John Jaw, Ph.D.: Founder of the Boston’s English-language and Chinese-language editions of The Epoch Times.
Dr. Jaw was born in 1953 in Taiwan, and came to the U.S. in 1978. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a doctorate degree in Flight Transportation in 1984. After being a consultant for three years, he started his own retail business in 1987.  With his interest and expertise in China studies and Chinese-language media, Dr. Jaw launched the Boston edition of The Epoch Times newspaper both in Chinese and English, in 2000 and 2004 respectively.  Dr. Jaw has also served as member of the Board of Directors for the Taiwan Chamber of Commerce of New England.

Valerie Epps: Director of the International Law Concentration at Suffolk University Law School; currently serves on the Ford Hall Forum board of Directors.

Since 1908, the Ford Hall Forum has been fostering civic dialogue, enriching public education, and honoring free speech through the presentation of free public lectures and discussion. As the nation’s oldest public lecture series, it has a storied past as a venue for some of the most intriguing figures in our nation’s modern history: from Eleanor Roosevelt to Margaret Sanger; Robert Frost to Martin Luther King, Jr.; Clarence Darrow to Malcolm X; Ayn Rand to Norman Mailer; and Al Gore to Ralph Reed. Most recently, it has addressed such thorny issues as stem cell research, same-sex marriage, and the war on terror.

Programs of the Ford Hall Forum are made possible through contributions from individual members as well as corporations and foundations, including The Barr Foundation, The Boston Foundation, The Colonnade Hotel, The Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation, Houghton Chemical Corporation, Levine Katz Nannis + Solomon P.C., The Lowell Institute, The Millipore Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and Northeastern University. For more information log onto www.fordhallforum.org.

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The Transnational Law Review Presented

David S. Jonas

General Counsel, National Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law: Preventing Nuclear Terrorism"

4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Large Moot Court Room

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Securing Africa's Future

A One Day Conference on the Problems and Prospects for

Socio-Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation in Africa

Presented by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston

In Cooperation with the British Consulate in Boston

Space Is Limited - Register Online Now

Conference Details:

When - Saturday, September 30, 2006 from 8:45 am - 5:00 pm

Where - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Taubman Building,
Wiener Auditorium, JFK Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Who - The Conference will bring together development professionals, members of the business community, civil servants, academics, teachers and university students.

For more information go to

http://www.unagb.org/

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