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White Rainbow: Film Screening and Discussion
Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society
Martha Chen, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Mohini Giri, Chairperson, Guild of Service (North India)
Veena Oldenburg, Professor of History, Baruch College & The Graduate Center of CUNY (moderator)
 Interview with Mohini Giri (http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/giri.cfm)
Mohini Giri featured on CNN.com
New York, October 11, 2007
Human Rights and Public Health:
The Burma/Myanmar Tragedy
Panel Discussion at the Asia Society
Joe Amon, Director, HIV/AIDS Program, Human Rights Watch
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
Brian Williams, UNAIDS Country Coordinator, Myanmar
Helen Epstein, Author, The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS (Moderator)
September 13, 2007
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North Korea: Placing Human Rights on the Security Agenda
Jay Lefkowitz, Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea
May 24, 2006, New York
Women's Leadership in Afghanistan's Reconstruction
Dr. Massouda Jalal, Minister for Women's Affairs, Afghanistan
September 8, 2005, New York
After the Tsunami: The Impact on Indigenous Conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka
Suraiya It, Chairperson of International Forum for Aceh
Ram Manikkalingam, Senior Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka
Calvin Sims, New York Times Television, moderator
April 19, 2005, New York
Preventive Action: Responding to the Grievances of Muslims in the Philippines
Datu Toto Paglas, III, Ceo, The Paglas Group Of Companies
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez, Senior Research Associate, U.S. Institute Of Peace
Mr. David L. Phillips, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Center For Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations (Presiding)
April 12, 2005, New York
Local Resources for Global Remedies : Increasing Access Towards a Sustainable HIV/AIDS Solution
Krisana Kraisintu, Pharmaceutical consultant to ARV production in African countries and former Director of the Research and Development Institute, Government Pharmaceutical Organization, Thailand
March 3, 2005, New York
Promoting Religious Freedom Abroad:
The Scope of U.S. Foreign Policy
Preeta Bansal, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Saman Zia-Zarifi, Deputy Director, Asia Division of Human Rights Watch
Peter Awn, Professor of Religion and Dean of General Studies, Columbia University
Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
November 30, 2004
No Place to Go:
Internally Displaced Persons in Myanmar (Burma)
Naw Musi, co-founder of the Karen Students Network Group
Veronika Martin, policy analyst at the U.S. Committee for Refugees
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institute and Co-Director of the Brookings Institution-John Hopkins SAIS Project on Internal Displacement
Sam Gregory, Program Manager for WITNESS
Thomas R. Lansner, Columbia University professor and non-profit consultant
November 16, 2004, New York
Mobilizing Women's Leadership in the Fight Against AIDS
Dr. Nafis Sadik, UN Special Envoy to AIDS in Asia
Mary Robinson, Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative and Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland
October 27, 2004, New York
 Expanded coverage on KaiserNetwork.org.
Securing Peace in Mindanao: Resolving the Roots of Conflict
Co-sponsored with US Institute of Peace &
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
September 27, 2004
Conflict Resolution and Peace Building – Lessons from Sri Lanka
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
President, The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
September 20, 2004, New York
Islam and Human Rights
Shirin Ebadi , Nobel Laureate
June 8, 2004, New York
Read an interview with Shirin Ebadi.
Asian Biotech: Beyond Wall Street
Charles Gardner, Associate Director, Health Equity, Rockefeller Foundation
Julian Ho Wai Kit, Regional Director, Eastern U.S., Singapore Economic Development Board
Madhu Kannan, International Division, NYSE; Janet Lewis, Asia pacific Vice president, Nasdaq
Cong Li, Hua An Fund Management Company, Shanghai, China
Dennis Purcell, Senior Managing Partner, Persus Soros BioPharmaceutical Fund, L.P.
Eugene Rzucidlo, Greenberg Traurig LLP
James Shapiro, Senior Managing Director, Galileo Global Advisors
Gurinder Shahi, CEO, BioEnterprise Asia; Mollie Shields-Uehling, President, Shields-Uehling Associates
Mel Spigelman, Director of Research and Development, TB Alliance for Drug Development
Mary Stober, President, Global Project Resources, LLC
June 3, 2004, New York
India's 2004 Election: What Happened and Why?
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, economist, International Food Policy Research Institute
Ritu Kochhar, international economist, Bear Stearns & Co
Radhika Lal, development economist, advisor for United Nations Development Programme
Philip Oldenburg, political scientist specializing in South Asia, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University
Naazneen Karmali, Business India, moderator
May 26, 2004, New York
The Next AIDS Generation: Orphans in
Asia and the World
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
David Gartner, Policy Director, Global AIDS Alliance
Peter McDermott, Chief, Global HIV/AIDS Programme, UNICEF
Sara Sievers, Director, Orphans Initiative, Association François-Xavier Bagnoud
Chung To, Founder and Chairperson, Chi Heng Foundation
Steven Wang, Founder and President, China AIDS Orphan Fund
May 12, 2004, New York
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Women of the World: Laws and Policies
Affecting their Reproductive Lives - South Asia
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights
Melissa Upreti, Center for Reproductive Rights
Katherine Hall-Martinez, Center for Reproductive Rights (moderator)
May 11, 2004, New York
Building New Frontiers in China: Socio-Economic Justice and Civil Society
Hu Suyun, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Wan Yanhai, Beijing AIZHI Action Project
Xu Anqi, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Zhang Qi, Peking University Law School
Andrew Nathan, Columbia University (moderator)
April 19, 2004, New York
Autumn's Final Country
Sonia Jabbar, filmmaker
Farooq Kathwari, Kashmir Study Group
Maya Chadda, Columbia University
Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough (Moderator)
April 14, 2004, New York
The Human Security Challenges of HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases: Exploring Effective Regional and Global Responses
Report of a conference co-sponsored by the Asia Society and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
March 22, 2004, Tokyo
The Global Perspective on the War on Terror
Tariq Ali, New Left Review
Dana Robert Dillon, The Heritage Foundation
Adrian Karatnycky, Freedom House (moderator)
February 10, 2004, New York
The Power of Education: Fighting AIDS in Asia and the World
(featuring PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS)
Rory Kennedy, MoxieFirecracker Productions
Shirley Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
February 3, 2004, New York
Challenges Facing China's Response to HIV/AIDS
Transcript and webcast available on KaiserNetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Bates Gill, Center for Strategic and International Affairs
David Ho, Aaron Diamond Center for AIDS Research
Sheila Mitchell, Family Health International
Peter Piot, UNAIDS
Elizabeth Rosenthal, New York Times
Marwyn Samuels, US-China AIDS Foundation
January 13, 2004, New York and Washington DC
Empowering Women in Asia:
The Urgent Need for Higher Education
Hanna Holborn Gray, University of Chicago
Sang Chang, Ewha Womans University, South Korea and former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
Patricia Licuanan, Miriam College, Philippines
Stephen J. Friedman, Asian University for Women Support Foundation
November 20, 2003, New York
From Conservation to Restoration:
The Future of Wildlife in Asia
Joshua Ginsberg, Wildlife Conservation Society
Minh Duc Le, Columbia University
Mark Ashton, Yale University
Photo montage by Eleanor Briggs
November 12, 2003, New York
Gender Montage:
Paradigms in Post-Soviet Space
A documentary film series presented by Asia Society and The Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute
November 10, 2003, New York
Women and Social Change in Iran
Haleh Esfandiari, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Negin Nabavi, Princeton University
Elahe Sharifpour-Hicks, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York
November 6, 2003, New York
Women's and Girls' Health in South Asia
Lucille Atkin, Margaret Sanger Center International/ Planned Parenthood of New York City
Nirmal Bista, Family Planning Association of Nepal
Kati Marton, International Women's Health Coalition
October 28, 2003, New York
New Leadership in India's Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Simultaneous Satellite Panel Discussions between New York and New Delhi
October 14, 2003
Innovative Approaches to AIDS in Iran
Kaveh Khosnood, Yale University School of Public Health
Dr. Aresh Alaei and Dr. Kamiar Alaei, advisors to the Ministry of Health in Iran
Robert Newman, Continuum Health Partners and Beth Israel Medical Center
Joanne Csete, Human Rights Watch
October 3, 2003, New York
Terror's Children
Sharmeen Obaid, filmmaker
Asith Bhattacharjee, Acting Director in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Saman Zia-Zarifi, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division
October 2, 2003, New York
Transitional Justice in Cambodia:
Challenges and Opportunities
Symposium Report
September 9, 2003, New York
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Challenges for Building Peace and Democracy
The Honorable Michael E. Malinowski, U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, United States Department of State
Kanak Mani Dixit, Editor, Himal South Asia
Deepak Thapa, Himal Association
Jeffrey Key, Associate Professor of Government, Sweet Briar College
June 17, 2003, Washington DC
Understanding Nepal's Maoist Insurgency:
Strategies for Sustainable Peace and Democracy
Symposium Report
June 16, 2003, New York
Understanding Political Islam in Southeast Asia
Greg Fealy, Australian National University
May 21, 2003, New York
Radical Islam in Central Asia
Barnett Rubin, Center on International Cooperation, NYU
May 7, 2003, New York
Bhutan's Transition to Constitutional Monarchy: Challenges for Change
April 30, 2003, New York
New Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy?
From Regime Change to Nation Building
Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
David Phillips, Council on Foreign Relations
Yoichi Funabashi, Asahi Shimbun
April 10, 2003, New York
Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime
Veena Oldenburg, Professor of History at the City Univesity of New York Graduate Center and Baruch College
Anupama Rao, Assistant Professor, South Asian History, Barnard College (Interviewer/ commentator)
March 19, 2003, New York
Arts for Social Change: Building Awareness for Action
Mallika Sarabhai, Classical dancer, stage and film actress, choreographer, writer, and social activist
Pamela Flaherty, Senior Vice President for Global Community Relations at Citicorp
Gowher Rizvi, Director, Institute for Government Innovations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
February 19, 2003, New York
The North Korean Crisis:
A Humanitarian Perspective
Kenzo Oshima, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, United Nations
Peter Hayes, Executive Director, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development
Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research
Council
February 12, 2003, New York
Visible Work, Invisible Women:
A Panel Discussion with a Photo Display on Women and Work in Rural Asia
Mr. P. Sainath, veteran journalist and photographer, author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Smita Narula, Senior Researcher at the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch
Adrienne Germain, President of International Women's Health Coalition
November 19, 2002, New York
Coexistence and Conflict: Hindu Muslim Relations in India
Shabana Azmi, Social Activist, Film Legend and Member of India’s Parliament
October 29, 2002, New York
New York Launch of the 2002 United Nations Development Program
Human Development Report
Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Lead Author and Director of the Human Development Report
Dr. Gita Sen, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
Princess Basma Bint Talal, Chair of the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development
Dr Mahnaz Ispahani, Senior Fellow for South & West Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations
October 3, 2002, New York
Communities in Conflict and Implications for U.S. - Indonesia Relations
Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, The Jakarta Post
Matthew Daley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia & Pacific Affairs
Sidney Jones, International Crisis Group
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
John Ikenberry, Georgetown University
June 18, 2002, Washington, DC
Beyond the New Order: Decentralization's Effect on Communities in Indonesia
Sidney Jones, International Crisis Group
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, LIPI
John Rumbiak, West Papuan Institute for Human Rights and Advocacy
Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, The Jakarta Post
Hendro Sangkoyo, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
June 17, 2002, New York
The State of Civil Liberties
Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
May 22, 2002, New York
Unbroken: An Exhibition of Hope and Determination
Olara Otunnu, UN Special Representative, Children and Armed Conflict
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General
Zama Coursen-Neff, Counsel, Children Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Hari Acharya, Bhutanese youth refugee
May 3, 2002, New York
Film Screening: "The Selling of Innocents"
Keynote Address: Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel, US Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Tuesday, April 9, 2002, New York
NGOs' Response to the War on Terrorism
Keynote address: Julia Taft, Assistant Secretary General and Director of Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP
Tuesday, March 26, 2002, New York
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Priorities and Challenges
Nicola Cunningham Armacost, Knowledge and Communications Coordinator, Women's World Banking
T. Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia & Pacific, Amnesty International USA
Nancy Lubin, JNA Associates, Inc.
Gerald Martone, Director of Emergency Response, International Rescue Committee, New York
Letitia Butler, Deputy Director of Central Asia Task Force, U.S. Agency for International Development
Tuesday, March 19, 2002, New York
Lecture Series
on Roots of Sectarian Conflict: Atul Kohli
Atul Kohli, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
March 7, 2002, New York
The Future of Asia's Nature and Culture
Dai Qing, writer and activist opposing the building of China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest dam
Kenny Bruno, Campaigns Coordinator, EarthRights International, Burma
Joan Carling, Secretary General, Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Philippines
Kirk Talbott, Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, Conservation International (moderator)
Tuesday, November 13, 2001, New York
Workers' Rights and Immigrant Communities
Muzaffar Chishti, UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees)
Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers Alliance, New York
Alex Hing, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
November 1, 2001, New York
The
Role of Business in Resolving the Mindanao
Conflict
Ricardo S. Pascua, President & CEO,
Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation Trustee, Philippine Business
for Social Progress
July 18, 2001, New York
Building Peace and Civil Society in Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities
Cosponsored with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Access the Asian Update, Afghanistan's Reform Agenda: Four Perspectives
Meeting Agenda
May 17, 2001, New York
A
Grassroots Perspective on Micro-enterprise Development and Civic
Participation in West Papua
Patricia McEwan,
Trickle Up's Project Manager for USAID Project, Cooperation in
Development: Enhancing the Irian Jaya NGOs and Civic Participation
through Microenterprise Development
May 3, 2001, New York
The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization Process in
Indonesia
Hadi Soesastro, Executive Director, Centre
for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta,
Indonesia
April 25, 2001, New York
Capital
Opportunities: Microcredit in Asia and the U.S.
Film and
Discussion with Entrepreneurs
Screening of Sixteen
Decisions
Roshaneh Zafar, Kashf Foundation,
Pakistan
Jayshree Vyas, SEWA, India
Gusti Made Oka,
Bank Dagang Bali, Indonesia
Milton Balcacer, Credit Where Credit
is Due
Valerie Davis, Project Enterprise
Discussion moderated
by Nancy Barry, President, Women's World Banking
April 5, 2001,
New York
Human Rights and Law in Asia: Challenges and Prospects for Democracy
and People's Empowerment
Mohammad Fajrul Falaakh, National
Law Commission, Indonesia
Kittipong Kittayarak,Assistant
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Thailand
Edgar Bernal,
Legal Rights and Natural Resources (LRC), Philippines
Maria Glenda
Ramirez, Ateneo Human Rights Center, Philippines
March 27, 2001,
New York
Feeding
Ourselves: Strategies and Solutions to End Hunger in Asia
Keynote speaker: Mr. Nitin Desai, UN Under-Secretary-General for
Economic and Social Affairs.
Organized in conjunction with the
exhibition, Can We Feed Ourselves? A Focus on Asia Photographs by
Hiroji Kubota.
January 29, 2001, New York
Civil Society
in Cambodia: Challenges and Prospects
Co-sponsored with the
Open Society Institute and Sasakawa Peace Foundation
HRH Prince
Norodom Sirivudh Founder and Chairman, Cambodian Institute for
Cooperation and Peace
Dr. Kao Hourn, Executive Director,
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
December 15, 2000, New
York
Read AsiaSource Special
Report on Cambodia:
War Crimes Tribunal
A Million
Mutinies: The Role of Civil Society and Local Communities in Environmental
Management
Speaker: Sunita Narain, Deputy Director, Centre for Science and
Environment, New Delhi, India
December 14, 2000, New York
Building Civil Society in Asia: Challenges and Prospects for
Resolving Ethnic Conflict
The Cases of Indonesia, Burma and
Philippines
Sidney Jones,
Human Rights Watch
Vum Son, Chin Forum
David Tharckabaw,
Karen National Union
Thomas M. McKenna,
University of Alabama
Co-Sponsored by Asia Society and Open
Society Institute
October 24, 2000, New York
Sacrifice of
the Innocents: Two films on sexual violence against Asian
children
Co-sponsored with the Sakhi for South Asian
Women
Keynote Address by Kul Gautam, Deputy
Director, UNICEF
October 18, 2000, New York
Dalits in India
2000: The Scheduled Castes more than a half century after
Independence
P. Sainath, Eisenhower Exchange Fellow
September 27, 2000, New York
Prospects for Negotiations in the Sri Lankan Crisis:Implications for
U.S. Foreign Policy
Cosponsored with the U.S. Institute of
Peace
June 14, 2000, Washington, D.C.
Lessons from
Sri Lanka: Communities and Conflict
Cosponsored with the
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (CCEIA)
June
13, 2000, New York
Asma
Jahangir
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or
Arbitrary Executions
Democracy and Human Rights in Post-Coup
Pakistan
May 30, 2000, New York
Access an interview
with Asma Jahangir
Micro
Credit Gone Global: An ASIP Panel Discussion
Muhammad
Yunus, Grameen Bank
Nancy Barry, Women's World Banking
M.S.H. Choudhury, Association for Social Advancement
Fabiola Santos-Gaerlan, Honeydew Drop Childcare
Frank
Wisner, American International Group
May 2, 2000, New York
Access an interview
with Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Access an interview
with Shafique Choudhury.
Globalization:
The Promises and The Perils
Nafis Sadik, United Nations
Population Fund
Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives
Muzaffar Chishti, UNITE
Nang Lao Liang Won, Migrant
Assistance Programme
Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam America
March 30, 2000, New York
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