Lowell Lecture
Great Decisions | Myanmar and ASEAN
Date & Time
Nov. 9, 2022 at 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location
Virtual
, MA
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
Presenting Organization
Topics
Contact
Natalie Mase (nmase@worldboston.org, )
The situation in Myanmar, including the coup by the military in February 2021 and the ongoing human rights crises, coupled with civil resistance by those opposed to the regime, has led to chaos in the Southeast Asian country. How are neighboring countries reacting, and what role will ASEAN play?
Join us for this installation of our Great Decisions series, when we host Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.
This event will take place virtually only.
Tom Andrews is the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. He is a former member of the US Congress from Maine is a Robina Senior Human Rights Fellow at Yale University Law School, an Associate of Harvard University's Asia Center and has a Washington DC based consulting practice, Andrews Strategic Services. He has worked with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and parliamentarians, NGOs and political parties in several countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Algeria, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Yemen.
Andrews served as General Secretary of "The Nobel Peace Laureate Campaign for Aung San Suu Kyi and the People of Burma" in 2001 and was a consultant for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma and the Euro-Burma Network. He has run advocacy NGOs including Win Without War and United to End Genocide, led an education institute at the University of Maine and served in the Maine House of Representatives and the Maine Senate. He lives with his wife and son in Fairfax, Virginia outside of Washington DC.