FILM ON ASYLUM GRANTING PROCESS TO BEGIN HUMAN RIGHTS VIDEO SERIES

The Human Rights Video Series, sponsored by the Brooks Memorial Library, will headline the The Windham WorldAffairs Council of Vermont´s annual winter dicussion series, The 2005 Jack Wallace Winter Discussion Series. On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Arthur Westing, World Affairs Council member, will facilitate a discussion on the video, Well-founded Fear.c2000. In English with parts spoken in foreign languages with English subtitles, this video provides a rare glimpse of the U.S. asylum granting process through the perspective of the Immigration and Naturalization asylum officers responsible for reviewing asylum applications.

The other films to be shown are:

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 , Life + Debt .c2003, which explores the effect of the International Monetary Fund´s policies on developing countries through Jamaica´s experience with the organization; and Wednesday, February 9, 2005, Behind the Labels. c2001, a video about work in garment factories on the pacific island of Saipan.

TheHuman Rights Video Project is dedicated to increasing the public's awareness of human rights issues through the medium of documentary films. It was made possible with generous grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The discussion series is free and open to the public.