Tue Mar 30, 2010
EVENT: Rethinking Immigration Detention, South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia, Tue Apr 6 2010 @ 5:30pm
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Sat Mar 20, 2010
SAJAforum: PAKISTAN: An Update on Internally Displaced Persons
Back in July 2009, we took note of what experts then were calling an “impending humanitarian disaster“: the displacement of as many as 2.5 million individuals due to the government’s military offensive in the North-West Frontier Province. Soon thereafter, the Pakistan government announced plans to return displaced individuals to their homes, and mainstream news coverage of the crisis subsided and public attention turned elsewhere.
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Sun Mar 14, 2010
DREXEL EVENT: Nisha Agarwal, “Luchando, Creando Poder Popular: A Community-Based Perspective to Fighting Health Disparities,” Wed Mar 31 @ 4:15pm
Come hear Nisha Agarwal, Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, discuss NYLPI’s use of law and organizing to address issues of racial and ethnic health disparities in New York City. Her talk will focus on two innovative campaigns: (1) improving access to pharmacies for limited English proficient individuals and (2) eliminating race and class segregation in academic medical centers. She will describe how these campaigns have evolved from community education and organizing to legal action to legislative victories and how law students can get involved in these projects and others.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010
SAJAforum: UK: BBC Asian Network on the Chopping Block?
When the BBC Asian Network was launched back in 2002 as a nationwide digital radio station throughout Britain, the BBC’s then-radio director, Jenny Abramsky, called it “one of the most important things the BBC has ever done.” Since then, the Asian Network has developed a loyal following, both in Britain and, via the internet, around the world.
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