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The Internet and Political Change in the Middle East at MIT Thursday, 28 April 2011 00:09 |   
Event was co-sponsored by the Technology and Culture Forumwith additional support from the National Science Foundation. Event is archived and may be viewed here: WEBCAST 
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On Wed, May 4, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. MIT Museum Director John Durant and international guests discussed for t the role – and control – of the Internet during periods of social and political change. This special breakfast-time Soap Box featured informal café-style conversation with experts in Cambridge and (by live link) in Cairo Egypt, with whom we discussed the (ab)uses of electronic social networks during the recent "January 25 Revolution". Talk was by
No Peace Without Justice in partnership with The Foundation for the Future, and in collaboration with the International Alliance for Justice,Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and with support from the Italian Government and the cooperation of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the Kurdistan Parliament in Iraq, are organizing an International Conference on “ Enhancing the Role of Women in Reconciliation, Accountability and Peacebuilding in Iraq through Socio- Political Empowerment ”, which will be held in Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq on 27-28 January 2011.
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance is entering into force December 2010. So far only 20 States have ratified it including Iraq.The Convention asserts the right of any person not to be subjected to enforced disappearance, the right of victims to justice and to reparation, and the right of any victim to know the truth about the circumstances of an enforced disappearance and the fate of the disappeared person, and the right to freedom to seek, receive and impart information to this end.
Deadline for comments January 15th.
