IL humanities council showing China Blue

 

 

 

 

Join The Public Square at the IHC and The Society for Arts for the Chicago premiere of…

China Blue

with Filmmaker Micha X. Peled

Monday
March 5, 2007
7:00 P.M.

The Society for Arts
1112 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago
Free. Open to the Public. Reservations are required. Space is limited. Make a reservation on-line , via email, or call 312.422.5580.
Please note: this film is not rated.

Shot clandestinely in China under difficult conditions, this award-winning documentary is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see – how the clothes we buy are actually made. China Blue takes us on a poignant journey inside a blue jeans factory, where the working conditions Jasmine and her teenage friend must endure are harsh beyond imagination.

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A and reception with filmmaker Micha X. Peled. Peled won the Amnesty Human Rights award for China Blue at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam. Find out more about the film at the official site.

“A heartbreaking and meticulous documentary about life inside a blue-jeans factory in China, [that] reveals more than we may care to know about the provenance of our most beloved item of clothing.” –The New York Times

This screening and discussion are part of the Public Square at the IHC’s Civic Cinema program, a series of films, forums, and conversations that uses the most exceptionally creative and engaging documentary films of our times as a springboard for talking about some of the most pressing and challenging social issues facing us. Many of the films screened in this series are funded in part by the Illinois Humanities Council.

More on Micha X. Peled:
Mr. Peled, the founder of Teddy Bear Films, was born and raised in Israel before immigrating to the United States. His varied career has included work as an importer, a prison guard, freelance journalist, political campaign manager, and adventure tour guide. He made his first documentary for television in 1992, Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin?. He has since directed the television documentaries Inside God’s Bunker (1994), You, Me, Jerusalem (co-director, 1996), and Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town (2001). China Blue (2005, 86 min.) is his first feature documentary.

If you need a sign interpreter or require other arrangements to fully participate, please call 312.422.5580. For parking locations near the facility, please visit Chicago Parking Map.com.

Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion

F/T Position Available:

Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion Women’s Rights Division

Deadline for applications: March 12, 2007

Human Rights Watch is seeking highly-qualified applicants for its newly-created position of Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion.

Description:  The Researcher in this newly-created position for Human Rights Watch’s Women’s Rights Division will be responsible for developing and implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on how interpretations of religion (and religious law, including but not limited to sharia) affect women’s human rights.  A primary objective of the research and advocacy will be to curb violations through, among other things, conducting fact-finding missions; writing and publicizing reports, briefing papers, letters, press releases, op-eds, and submissions to international bodies based on the findings; developing and implementing local, regional, and international strategies to change abusive laws, policies, and practices; presenting human rights concerns to government officials, religious leaders, inter-governmental agencies, and the press; and working closely with colleague NGOs to ensure that HRW’s work complements and enhances their own work.  The Researcher’s responsibilities will also include monitoring legislative and/or policy developments related to the ways in which religious laws are interpreted and/or applied in violation of women’s human rights globally and liaising with human rights, women’s, religious, and other organizations in the countries she or he will cover.

Qualifications:  The ideal candidate will have religious expertise and no less than five years
of directly-related post-graduate experience working on exposing and curbing the ways that religions have been used to undermine and circumscribe women’s enjoyment and exercise of their full human rights, both at a national and a regional level.  An advanced (graduate) degree in international relations, religious studies, theology, journalism, law, or social sciences is required, as are strong field research and documentation skills.  Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English, as well as strong familiarity with Islam, sharia and international human rights law, is required.  

The researcher must be able to identify, research, analyze and effectively communicate
important human rights developments in the area of specialty in a timely and sophisticated fashion, setting priorities based on perceptive analysis of critical emerging issues that are important and susceptible to influence.  The researcher must be an agile and productive writer and dynamic speaker with accurate, analytically sophisticated, and persuasive oral and written communications skills.  He or she must be able to think strategically about the global and local media environments and how to use the press and electronic media to further advocacy goals, maintaining regular contact with key local, national and international contacts relevant to the researcher’s issues.  He or she must be able to develop and implement realistic and effective local and international advocacy strategies and tactics in order to identify and seize advocacy opportunities and thus insert HRW’s position into public debate.  Creativity, initiative, perseverance, and flexibility are required while maintaining HRW’s high methodological standards.

He or she must be able to travel domestically and overseas for three or more weeks at a time, several times a year.   The researcher may be based in one of HRW’s global offices or in another location, but in any case must be prepared to spend significant periods of time in HRW’s New York headquarters, particularly in the first year of employment for purposes of orientation, integration into the organization, and training, and thereafter for regular consultation.

Salary and Benefits:  Human Rights Watch seeks exceptional candidates and offers competitive compensation and generous employer-paid benefits.  HRW will pay reasonable relocation expenses and will assist employees in obtaining the necessary work authorization for the location where he or she will be based.

PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY by emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, names or letters of reference, and a brief writing sample (unedited by others) no later than March 12, 2007 to wrd@hrw.org.  Please use “Application for WRD Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion” as the subject of your email.  Only complete applications will be reviewed.  It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email.  If emailing is not possible, send materials (please do not split a submission between email and regular post) to:

Human Rights Watch
Attn:  Search Committee (WRD Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion)
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY  10118-3299  USA

Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate in its
hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible workforce, actively seeks a
diverse applicant pool.

Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion

F/T Position Available:

Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion Women’s Rights Division

Deadline for applications: March 12, 2007

Human Rights Watch is seeking highly-qualified applicants for its newly-created position of Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion.

Description:  The Researcher in this newly-created position for Human Rights Watch’s Women’s Rights Division will be responsible for developing and implementing a research and advocacy agenda focusing on how interpretations of religion (and religious law, including but not limited to sharia) affect women’s human rights.  A primary objective of the research and advocacy will be to curb violations through, among other things, conducting fact-finding missions; writing and publicizing reports, briefing papers, letters, press releases, op-eds, and submissions to international bodies based on the findings; developing and implementing local, regional, and international strategies to change abusive laws, policies, and practices; presenting human rights concerns to government officials, religious leaders, inter-governmental agencies, and the press; and working closely with colleague NGOs to ensure that HRW’s work complements and enhances their own work.  The Researcher’s responsibilities will also include monitoring legislative and/or policy developments related to the ways in which religious laws are interpreted and/or applied in violation of women’s human rights globally and liaising with human rights, women’s, religious, and other organizations in the countries she or he will cover.

Qualifications:  The ideal candidate will have religious expertise and no less than five years
of directly-related post-graduate experience working on exposing and curbing the ways that religions have been used to undermine and circumscribe women’s enjoyment and exercise of their full human rights, both at a national and a regional level.  An advanced (graduate) degree in international relations, religious studies, theology, journalism, law, or social sciences is required, as are strong field research and documentation skills.  Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English, as well as strong familiarity with Islam, sharia and international human rights law, is required.  

The researcher must be able to identify, research, analyze and effectively communicate
important human rights developments in the area of specialty in a timely and sophisticated fashion, setting priorities based on perceptive analysis of critical emerging issues that are important and susceptible to influence.  The researcher must be an agile and productive writer and dynamic speaker with accurate, analytically sophisticated, and persuasive oral and written communications skills.  He or she must be able to think strategically about the global and local media environments and how to use the press and electronic media to further advocacy goals, maintaining regular contact with key local, national and international contacts relevant to the researcher’s issues.  He or she must be able to develop and implement realistic and effective local and international advocacy strategies and tactics in order to identify and seize advocacy opportunities and thus insert HRW’s position into public debate.  Creativity, initiative, perseverance, and flexibility are required while maintaining HRW’s high methodological standards.

He or she must be able to travel domestically and overseas for three or more weeks at a time, several times a year.   The researcher may be based in one of HRW’s global offices or in another location, but in any case must be prepared to spend significant periods of time in HRW’s New York headquarters, particularly in the first year of employment for purposes of orientation, integration into the organization, and training, and thereafter for regular consultation.

Salary and Benefits:  Human Rights Watch seeks exceptional candidates and offers competitive compensation and generous employer-paid benefits.  HRW will pay reasonable relocation expenses and will assist employees in obtaining the necessary work authorization for the location where he or she will be based.

PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY by emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, names or letters of reference, and a brief writing sample (unedited by others) no later than March 12, 2007 to wrd@hrw.org.  Please use “Application for WRD Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion” as the subject of your email.  Only complete applications will be reviewed.  It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email.  If emailing is not possible, send materials (please do not split a submission between email and regular post) to:

Human Rights Watch
Attn:  Search Committee (WRD Researcher on Women’s Human Rights and Religion)
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY  10118-3299  USA

Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate in its
hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible workforce, actively seeks a
diverse applicant pool.

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