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Public Talk - Eastern Burma: Community-based Humanitarian Assistance04 August 2009APHEDA is hosting a number of distinguished guests from Burma who will be giving a talk on grass-roots efforts to provide aid and development in Burma.
SpeakersDr CynthiaDr Cynthia Maung established and runs the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai Burma Border. The clinic treats thousands of civilians affected by the conflict in Burma each year. Dr Cynthia Maung has been awarded numerous humanitarian awards for her devotion to the health and welfare of Burmese refugees and internally displaced persons, including the 2007 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award and Southeast Asia's Ramon Magsaysay Award. In 1999 she was the first recipient of the Jonathan Mann Award.Charm TongBurma activist Charm Tong, is an Advocacy Team member of the Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN) and the Director of the School for Shan State Nationalities Youth (SSSNY). She has received numerous human rights awards, and was named as one of Asia's Heroes by TIME Magazine in 2005 in recognition of her advocacy against the Burmese military regime's human rights abuses, particularly their use of systematic sexual violence against ethnic women in the on-going war in Burma. Charm Tong was nominated for the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also the recipient of the Students Peace Prize 2007 given by the Norwegian students at the International Students Festival in Trondheim (ISFiT). She has addressed the United Nations several times, and was invited to the White House by President George W. Bush to discuss human rights and the future of Burma in October 2005. SWAN works for gender equality and justice for women in the struggle for social and political change in Burma. SWAN is a founding member of the Women's League of Burma (WLB), an umbrella of 12 women organisations from Burma.Pippa CurwenPippa Curwen is the founder and Director of the Burma Relief Centre (BRC), an NGO based in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. Set up in 1988, BRC supports local community based organisations to provide humanitarian aid to displaced people in Burma's border areas, and promotes civil society development. BRC has five main program sectors: Health, Women, Media, Community Development and Environment & Human Rights. BRC receives funding from the Canadian, Norwegian and Danish governments.Dr. Vit SuwanvanichkijVoravit Suwanvanichkij MPH, MD, is a research associate of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. He received his MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University and has worked in partnership with local community-based organisations on issues related to health, migration, human rights and Burma since 2001. He has written extensively about these issues, in both the biomedical literature and the lay press. He is a co-author of the report The Gathering Storm: Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in Burma , as well as the more recent report entitled After the Storm: Voices from the Delta (published jointly with the Emergency Assistance Team Burma), which examined issues such as misgovernance and human rights abuses in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which ravaged Burma in May 2008. He is currently based in Thailand, where he also works as a physician caring for patients with HIV/AIDS.Public Seminar: CANBERRADate: Tuesday 18 August, 2009Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Burmese Bistro, Canberra Southern Cross Club This is a FREE event, hosted by Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Public Seminar: SYDNEYDate: Friday 21 August, 2009Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Auditorium, NSW Labour Council Building This is a FREE event, hosted by Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA. More InformationUnion Aid Abroad-APHEDA ont: 02 9264 9343 e: office@apheda.org.au Contact Details Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA Ph: (02) 9264 9343 Fax: (02) 9261 1118 office@apheda.org.au |
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