Scholars at Risk Network New York University


Academic Freedom Workshop
Amman, Jordan, March 31, 2008

Scholars at Risk (SAR) and the Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) held the first in a series of workshops on academic freedom in Amman, Jordan on March 31st, 2008. The workshop took place on the second day of a three day event organized in partnership with the Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS) and hosted by the United Nations University (UNU) in Amman under the patronage of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Jordan. Faculty and researchers from twenty-two universities (both public and private) across seventeen countries participated in the event. Representatives were present from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Palestine, the Republic of Yemen, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.  For more information... 
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