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Event

"
Burma's Rohingya: 
Beyond the Communal Violence

" Features Greg Constantine Photography

Event Date:

October 9, 2012 | 12:00 PM EDT
Participant:
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These women claim beatings, extortion and the seizure of their homes forced 120 families to flee their village in Myanmar in early 2009. Image by Greg Constantine. Bangladesh, 2009.

Greg Constantine's photographs from his reporting on statelessness are featured during "Burma's Rohingya:
 Beyond the Communal Violence,"

 a Washington, DC, event organized by Refugees International and Open Society Foundations.

The event's keynote address comes from 
Kelly Clements
, deputy assistant secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration
. 
Anne Richard, 
assistant secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration

, provides introductory remarks. Morton H. Halperin of Open Society Foundations, moderates a panel discussion which includes Sarnata Reynolds, Refugees International, and John Sifton, Human Rights Watch.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012
12:00–2:00pm (Buffet Lunch: 12:00 pm Program: 12:20 – 2:00 pm)
Open Society Foundations

1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006

Event is free, but RSVP required.

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