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2008 Bastiat Prize Dinner
Date: 2008-10-22
IPN's Seventh Annual Bastiat Prize Dinner will be held in New York City.
Contact Dawn Steeves [events ..at.. policynetwork.net] for further information. |
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Do We Have the Right To Improve Upon Human Nature?
Location: Donnell Public Library
20 West 53rd Street
(Between 5th and 6th Avenue)
Date: 2008-06-16
Better understanding of genetics and medicine is leading to new technologies that promise to extend and improve human life. Some argue that we have a right to use whatever technologies we choose in order to improve upon nature. Others claim that such interventions amount to ‘playing god’. Who is right?
A New York Debate featuring
Prof.William B. Hurlbut of Stanford University
Prof. Julian Savulescu of Oxford University
Prof. Lee Silver of Princeton University
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The myth of a general AIDS pandemic: How UNAIDS has wasted billions
Sponsoring Organisation: The Geneva Roundtables
Location: Hotel Intercontinental
Date: 2008-05-21
Professor Jim Chin, former head of AIDS surveillance at WHO, outlines his views on the scale and scope of the AIDS pandemic. In particular, Prof. Chin will discuss his views on how UNAIDS has distorted epidemiology in order to pursue its own political agendas. |
Tony Leon MP on South Africa and Zimbabwe
Location: IPN
Date: 2008-05-21
Tony Leon is the Democratic Alliance Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and the party's former leader.
A stolen election in Zimbabwe and the elevation of Jacob Zuma to the presidency of South Africa’s ANC are now dominating headlines in South Africa and the sub-region, with anti-immigrant riots topping the news at the moment.
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