Event: The Best Hope for Peace in Darfur (04/19/06)

Who: Nicholas Kristof, Mark Malloch Brown, Juan Mendez, Tragi Mustafa, moderated by Karima Bennoune.

Where: The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York NY.

When: Wednesday, April 19th, 7:00 PM

What: The systematic, state-sponsored killings and rapes in Darfur have been called the worst humanitarian crisis of this century. Join Nicholas Kristof, (Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times), Mark Malloch Brown, Juan Mendez, and Tragi Mustafa in a discussion on ending the atrocities in Darfur and why you are the best hope for peace and justice.

Panelists
Nicholas Kristof - Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times whose tireless advocacy on Darfur has made him a one-man army focusing attention on the atrocities and pressuring the US government to respond.
Mark Malloch Brown - United Nations Deputy Secretary-General.
Juan Mendez - President of the International Center for Transitional Justice and the United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.
Tragi Mustafa - Darfuri refugee living in Ontario and the Executive Director of the Darfur Association of Canada and the founder of Save Women-Sudan.
Moderator: Karima Bennoune - Amnesty International board member, Professor of International Law, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.

Cosponsored by Amnesty International, The New York Society for Ethical Culture, and Human Rights First.

Tags: Nicholas Kristof, Mark Malloch Brown, Juan Mendez, Tragi+Mustafa, International Center For Transitional Justice, Darfur Association of Canada, Darfur, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, New York Society For Ethical Culture

Event: An Evening with Robert Fisk (04/07/06)

Who: Robert Fisk.

Where: The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York NY.

When: Friday, April 7th, 7:00 PM

What: Join Robert Fisk, acclaimed journalist (UK Independent), and author of Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilization, for a discussion "On War, the Legacy of Western Intervention in the Middle East, and Journalism."

Fisk has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years. He is widely respected as a tireless reporter who strives to get firsthand information and who brings a sense of fairness, knowledge and history to his reporting. His work is based on a moral framework that views war as the "total failure of the human spirit" and journalists as having a duty to report from the perspective of the victims. In a critical look at foreign involvement and intervention in the Middle East, Robert Fisk will explain that the West has learned little from having supported some of the Middle East's most brutal regimes and ruthless policies in pursuit of geo-political interests. Fisk will tell the story of journalists in war: of their attempts to report the first, impartial drafts of history, to monitor the centers of power, to challenge authority and to battle an increasingly partisan worldwide media in their determination to report the truth.

Co-sponsored by the Nation Institute, the New York Society for Ethical Culture and the Armenian National Committee.