NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY PRESENTS A LECTURE
ON "REFUGEE PROTECTION AND LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE"
WITH SADAKO OGATA ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 AT 6:00 PM
Sadako Ogata is former United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees and is now
Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation and Japan's Special Representative
on Afghan issues
(New York, NY – October 7, 2002) New School University will present a lecture by Sadako Ogata on "Refugee Protection and Lessons for the Future" on Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 6:00 p.m. at Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets), NYC. This event is free. Seating is limited. For more information on this event, call 212-229-5115.
Ms. Ogata visited Afghanistan as Prime Minister Koizumi's Special Representative from June 13 - 19, 2002. During this period, she had discussions with key officials of the Afghan Administration, including President Karzai, as well as members of the diplomatic community. She also visited Kandahar, where she met with local government officials and representatives of the U.N. agencies and refugee camps in Spin Boldak and Chaman. Ms. Ogata will talk about man-made conflicts and crises and will share the details of her experience in Afghanistan and offer her observations.
Ms. Ogata is a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation and Japan's Special Representative on Afghan issues. She was the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Before Ms. Ogata's election as U.N. High Commissioner, she was Japan's representative on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights from 1982 to 1985 and in 1990 served as its Independent Expert in Myanmar. Her academic positions include Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo and Director of the University's Institute of International Relations.
Ms. Ogata holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California in Berkeley, an M.A. in International Relations from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. from the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo. She has published a number of books on diplomatic history and international relations, as well as numerous articles. Ms. Ogata is currently writing a book examining the impact of global trends on the refugee protection regime
This event is co-sponsored by the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (Aristide Zolberg, Director) and the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (Elzbieta Matynia, Director). Both Centers are located at New School University's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.
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