Burma & Iran: Elections, Democracy and Human Rights -- Kyi May Kaung and Hamid Akbari - NEIU, Chicago, March 31, 2010

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010
1:25 PM - 2:40 PM
GOLDEN EAGLES
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15th Annual Asian American Heritage Conference
“Human Rights: From Dialogue to Action”
BURMA AND IRAN: ELECTIONS,
DEMOCRACY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Introduction/
Moderator: Deberah Bernstein, Professor, Justice
Studies, NEIU
Presenters: Kyi May Kaung, Independent
Burma Scholar; Poet and Novelist
Hamid Akbari, Chair and
Professor, Management and
Marketing, College of Business
and Management, NEIU

This presentation compares and contrasts pro-democracy
struggles in Iran and Burma, with a focus
on the planned 2010 elections in Burma (Myanmar).