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Harvard Book Store Presents...
W W Norton & Co Inc
Price: $19.95
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IRENE KHAN
tells us
The Unheard Truth:
Poverty and Human Rights
Harvard Book Store and Amnesty International are honored to welcome the Amnesty Secretary General IRENE KHAN for a conversation about her new book The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights. In our rapidly globalizing age with economic growth occurring in almost every corner of the world, it is easy to forget that more than one billion people still live on less than one dollar a day. Poverty is the worst human-rights crisis in the world today, denying billions of people their most basic rights. In a bracing argument enriched by compelling photographs from across the world, Irene Khan makes the case that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue to define it as an economic problem whose only solution is foreign aid and investment. Khan calls for a reevaluation of this longstanding assumption and turns us toward confronting poverty as a human-rights violation. Empowering the poor with basic rights of security is our only chance for eradicating poverty and giving freedom and dignity to those who have never experienced it.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Monday, October 19th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Irene Khan has had a lifelong career as a human rights activist, an interest which began during her youth in Bangladesh, watching the human rights abuses that occurred during that nation's struggle for independence. Since then she has helped create the international development and relief organization Concern Universal, which worked in cooperation with Children in Crossfire. She has also worked with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and as of 2001 has served as the Secretary General for Amnesty International.
Photo Credit: Mersy Photos
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