The Lebanese Economic Association invites you to the closing event of its project:
“Know, React, Engage"
A Public Discussion on Socio-Economic Rights in Lebanon”
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 between 5:30 and 8:00 pm Metro Al Madina- Hamra
Agenda:
5:30- 5:40 Welcoming Address
5:40- 6:00 Screening of Project Videos (project trailer)
6:00- 8:00 Discussion on Socio-Economic Rights in Lebanon
Speakers:
Youth Unemployment and Cost of Living:
- Dr. Sami Atallah, Executive Director, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Education and Working Women:
- Ms. Sawsan Masri, Project Coordinator, International...
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
invites you to: Protecting Syrian Refugees: Laws, Policies and Global Responsibility-Sharing
The International Human Rights Clinical Program at the Boston University School of Law is completing a two-year research project focusing on the legal issues and problems that are creating barriers to relief and protection for refugees fleeing Syria. This project focuses on the international and regional legal instruments that govern the rights of and obligations towards this refugee flow in the most-affected states: Lebanon, Jordan...
The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
cordially invites you to a lecture by Malek Sharif
The State and the CityUncovering the early history of the municipality of Beirut
AUB, Bldg. 37 (behind the Lee Observatory), Thursday March 13, 2014 (5:00pm)
The standard literature on the Ottoman Tanzimat period largely ignores or barely touches on the provincial urban institutions. They ignore the formative years of the municipalities in the provinces and the laws by which they were constituted. Consequently they date the foundation of municipalities at a later period of time. They also tend to...
Three active campaigns organizing around sexuality in India have gained international attention. First, the long-term campaigns against honor killing in rural North India have finally reached the Indian national stage. Second, the spontaneous and to many surprising upsurge of young women's and men's protest against the Delhi gang rape of a woman on December 16, 2012 continues to galvanize protests and legal changes. Third, the immediate reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to reinstate section 377 of the Indian penal code, a British-era law that makes gay sex illegal, that was overturned...
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, and the Center for American Studies and Research
Cordially invite you to a lecture and book launch
'Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics'
byDr. Elisabeth Armstrong Thursday, March 6th, 2014 | 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Building 37 CASAR (Behind the Old Observatory) - AUB
In 1991, structural adjustments began in earnest in India. The nation’s leaders reduced social spending and dismantled protections and supports for...
