Information, Freedom and Censorship: The Media and Human Rights

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Moderator:

Ms. Lauren Lovelace, EPIIC

Panelists

Mr. Daniel Green

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; ABC Field Producer, South Africa; graduate, UCLA, Film and Television Studies; conducts research at Harvard University Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy

Ms. Pnina Lahav

Professor of Law, Boston University Law School; author, Press Law in Modern Democracies and "the Impact of Counterterrorism on Israel's legal Culture"

Mr. Liu Binyan

Former Investigative Reporter, People's Daily, China; author, A Higher Kind of Loyalty and China's Hope, China's Crisis; Fellow, Princeton University

Ms. Nomavenda Mathiane

Journalist, Frontline, South Africa; author, Diary of Troubled Times; member, Black Consciousness Movement

Mr. Chuck Olin

President, Chuck Olin Associates, Inc.; Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker; director, Out of Silence-in honor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mr. Octavian Paler

Publisher, Romania Liberia, Romania; author, The Truth About Galileo

Mr. Benjamin Pogrund

A Chief Foreign Sub Editor, The Independent, London; former Deputy Editor, Rand Daily Mail, South Africa; he was the first African Affairs reporter in South Africa; author, Sobukwe and Apartheid

Mr. Leonard Sussman

Senior Scholar in International Communications, Freedom House; author, Power, the Press and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN

Mr. Lawrence Weschler

Author, A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers and The Passion of Poland; recipient, George Polk Award for Best Cultural Reporting 1988): staff writer, The New Yorker

Interlocutor:

Mr. Michael Massing