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Date: March 13, 1997


Executive Director of Human Rights Watch/Asia to Speak at Princeton

Princeton, N.J. -- The executive director of Human Rights Watch/Asia, Sidney Jones, will speak on "Facts and Fallacies About the Impact of Economic Growth on Human Rights: A Look at Asia" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, April 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.

Jones, who was previously a researcher with Amnesty International and a program officer in the Indonesian field office of the Ford Foundation, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Her work has been published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Current History , the New York Review of Books , the Harvard Business Review , and Asia Magazine .

Her talk is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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