Presentator: Geoffrey Robinson

Core Readings

Voices from Asia

• Chat Piersath, "A Letter to My Mother," in Dith Pran and Kim DePaul, eds. Children of the Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors. Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 6-9.
• Aung San Suu Kyi, "The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," in Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom From Fear and Other Writings, Penguin, pp. 235-238.
• Bishop Belo, "The Search for Human Rights," Asiaweek (August 20-27, 1999).
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer, "I Can Only Oppose With Words" and "Letter to My Daughter," in Index on Censorship, May 1997.
• Amartya Sen, "Human Rights and Asian Values: What Lee Kwan Yew and Li Peng Don't Understand About Asia," in The New Republic, July 14, 1997, pp. 33-40.

The U.S. connection

• "What One American President Thought About Civilian Casualties," Santa Barbara Independent. March 20, 2003.
• "CIA links to Indonesian massacres revealed," Guardian Weekly (August 2-8, 2001).
• Jonathan Turley, "Naked Power, Arbitrary Rule," Los Angeles Times. July 21, 2003.
• Lisa Girion, "California Law to Govern Unocal Human Rights Case, Judge Rules," Los Angeles Times, Augsut 1, 2003.

Overview and issues

• Burns H. Weston, "Human Rights," in Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston, eds. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, pp. 12-29.
• Geoffrey Robertson, "Introduction," in Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice. New York: The New Press, 2002, pp. xxi-xxxiv.
• Robert F. Drinan, "A Global Revolution for Children," in The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights. Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 45-50.
• Frank Bruni, "Doctor in Italy Tries to Ease Pain of an African Tradition," NY Times, February 1, 2004.

Presentator: Lorna Chiu, Doctors Without Borders

Presentator: Namju Cho

Required Reading:

• "The Trafficking of Asian Women"

Recommended Readings:

• "Trafficking in Persons"
• "Assessment of U.S. Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons"
• "Trafficking in Women and Children"
• CAST Brochure
• Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Disposable People, by Kevin Bales
• Disposable Domestics, Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy, by Grace Chang
• Trafficking in Persons Report 2003, by the State Dept (http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2003/) National Geographic's Sept. 2003 issue has a feature on 21st Century Slaves. New York Times Magazine will feature a story on sex trafficking on Jan or Feb.

Presentator: Saman Zia-Zarifi

Core Readings

• HRW Asia overview 2003
  http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/asia.html
• Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of
  Detention or Imprisonment:
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp36.htm
• Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners:
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp34.htm

Additional Resources

• Pakistani Political Activists
  http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/10/postcoup.htm (and linked material)
  http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/10/pakistan101003.htm
• Malaysian Critics -- Irene Fernandez and Anwar Ibrahim
  http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/malaysia/2000/ (and linked material)
  http://hrw.org/press/2003/11/malaysia110603.htm (and linked material)
• Cyberdissidents in Viet Nam
  http://hrw.org/press/2003/06/vietnam061703.htm (and linked material)
• Chinese Academics
  http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/china/scholars/index.htm (and linked
  material)
• Abuses of Counter-Terrorism Laws
  http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/29/global7127.htm (and linked
  material)

Presentator: Geoffrey Robinson

Core Readings

• Geoffrey Robinson, "If You Leave Us, We Will Die," Dissent (Winter 2002), pp. 87-99.
• Amnesty International, "As Violence Descended: Testimonies From East Timorese Refugees." London, October 1999.
• National Security Archive, "East Timor Revisited: Ford, Kissinger and the Indonesian Invasion, 1975-76." Available at NSA website: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/
  

Presentator: Mark Elinson

Presentator: Anne Parris and Todd Jennings