Inaugural meeting
Friday, March 31
12noon-2pm
826 Williams for the talk
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Featuring a discussion of
The Rohingyas of Burma and Bangladesh
by Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The human rights situation in Burma has led to thousands of people of
various ethnic groups fleeing to neighboring countries. The Rohingya Muslims
from Arakan state are vulnerable as they have no legal status in Burma and
are considered to be non-citizens. The plight of the Rohingya demonstrates
how people without citizenship rights in their own country can be forced out
and become refugees, leaving them still vulnerable and without citizenship
in the country of asylum.

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/870/

Dr. Habib Siddiqui is a long-time human rights activist with a Ph.D. from
the University of Southern California, Dr. Siddiqui has written extensively
in Op/Ed columns in newspapers, magazines, journals and the Internet. His
writing combines meticulous research with personal experience of displaced
Rohingyas from Arakan in Myanmar (Burma). He has also worked on human rights
issues in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Palestine, and among American
Muslims in the post-9/11 era.

For further information contact David Ludden (dludden@sas.upenn.edu)
David Ludden
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/ludden.htm
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