Session S4: FHP/FPS Award Session

3:30 PM–5:54 PM, Monday, April 24, 2006
Hyatt Regency Dallas Room: Marsalis A

Sponsoring Units: FHP FPS
Chair: George Lewis, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.APR.S4.4

Abstract: S4.00004 : Sakharov and the Grey Zone: Difficult Areas of Human Rights Activity

5:18 PM–5:54 PM

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Author:

  Yuri Orlov
    (Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University)

Drawing on my experience in human rights work and my discussions with A. D. Sakharov, I will explore some difficult areas of human rights activity in which human rights defenders cannot reach a consensus on how to proceed, and even on how to define the problem.

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