aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Reminder about HIV-AIDS in Ukraine lecture

[Diana Howansky <dhh2@columbia.edu>]

TODAY:

The Ukrainian Studies Program and the Ukrainian Student Society at 
Columbia University will host representatives of Human Rights Watch, 
Rebecca Schleifer (HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program) and Jane Buchanan 
(Europe and Central Asia Division), who will speak about:

"THE HIV/AIDS CRISIS IN UKRAINE"

WHEN: Tuesday, December 6 at 1:00pm
WHERE: Room 1219, International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St., 
Columbia University

REBECCA SCHLEIFER works as a researcher in the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights 
Program at Human Rights Watch, where she does research and advocacy on 
human rights abuses linked to HIV/AIDS. She has conducted research and 
written reports about government restrictions on complete HIV/AIDS 
information to youth and on harm reduction services to injection drug 
users; access to antiretroviral treatment and other post-rape services 
to survivors of sexual violence; and abuses against people living with 
and at high risk of HIV/AIDS, in the United States, Ukraine, Bangladesh, 
South Africa, and Jamaica. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she 
worked with migrant farm-workers in Florida and Washington, litigating 
cases on wages and working conditions, and conducting advocacy regarding 
pesticide issues. Ms. Schleifer has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe 
College, and an M.P.H. and a J.D. from the University of California, 
Berkeley.

JANE BUCHANAN has worked on democracy and human rights issues in the 
former Soviet Union for more than ten years.  She has been in her 
current position as a consultant for the Europe and Central Asia 
Division of Human Rights Watch for nine months and has contributed to 
Human Rights Watch research and advocacy on Ukraine, Russia and Central 
Asia.  Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in her current capacity, Ms. 
Buchanan served for two years as the Executive Director of the Russian 
Justice Initiative, a human rights organization based in Moscow.  In 
2002-2003, Ms. Buchanan worked for Human Rights Watch as a research 
fellow during which she initiated the organization’s work on Ukraine and 
published two HRW reports on Ukraine.  Ms. Buchanan also previously 
worked at the Open Society Institute in New York, the Center for 
Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna, Italy, for 
Middlebury College in Russia, and for a Russian NGO in Irkutsk, Russia. 
  She obtained a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Johns 
Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies in Bologna, 
Italy and Washington, DC in 2002.

For more information, please contact Diana at 
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu or (212)854-4697.

-- 
Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1209, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies@columbia.edu
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ukrainianstudies/