File 1 - BRAC visit Feb 2011

361pp

Material, consisting of correspondence, invites, flyers, brochures, itineraries, reports and background information, relating to BRAC visit by Mary Robinson (MR) to Dhaka, Bangladesh, 06-09/02/2011. Includes material relating to MR's address to the convocation of BRAC University, 7th February, including text of address, programme, and email correspondence relating to the invite and Bangladesh being "ground zero" for impact of climate change impacts, including with FH Abed, Founder & Chairperson, BRAC University, Heather Grady, Managing Director, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI) [which at this point is winding down as Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (MRFCJ) is established], Susan Davis, President and CEO, BRAC USA, Mary Baylis, EGI, To Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide, Helen Julia Harrison, Executive Assistant to Chief Executive, Oxfam GB, Md Manirul Islam, Oxfam Bangladesh, and Kamal Ahmad, 05/04/2009-03/02/2011; background information on BRAC Education Programme and print out of presentation slides on BRAC Disaster, Environment and Climate Change Programme; material relating to field visit to BRAC Center, BRAC Delivery Center, where she met with Urban Birth attendants and Manoshi [Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health] midwives, expectant mothers, mothers who had recently delivered and neonate, borrower women, Shasthya Karmi [health workers] and Shasthya Shebikas [Community Health Volunteers] and BRAC school, 7th February , Korail [largest slum in Bangladesh]; text of address by MR, "Sharing the Unequal Burdens of Global Warming - Climate Justice and Our Global Responsibility", Khazanah Global Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, with notation, agenda and BRAC background material, 10/02/2011.

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