Anil Raj, from the UN and Amnesty International will talk about Burma and the state of Human Rights in the area. Anil Raj is a Myanmar (Burma) Country Specialist for Amnesty International USA and has held this post since 2007. In 2008, Anil briefly spent time on the Thai-Burmese border working with the Burma Lawyer's Council on human rights documentation and international criminal accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by the Burmese junta, with a focus on gender-based crimes. He, along with his colleagues, continues to provide country-specific support and coordinates the organization's human rights concerns in Burma within Amnesty's US section and through U.S. government lobbying efforts. He is currently at the United Nations Development Program working on Disarmament, Demobilization Reintegration of combatants in post-conflict countries. Anil graduated with his M.A. in International Human Rights with a concentration in post-war peacebuilding from the Josef Korbel School for International Studies at the University of Denver in 2009.
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