International Human Rights Day in Washington DC-Saturday, December 12

December 9, 2009 by Leave a comment

There will be an International Human Rights Day seminar held at my school, the George Washington University this coming Sat, Dec 12th from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. It will be hosted by by Iranian-American journalist, Rudi Bakhtiar – a former CNN anchor and now a Fox News anchor. Here is one of her recent interview with CNN:

The goal is to Stop rape, torture, execution of political prisoners in Iran

The speakers will be Joe Stork-Human Rights Watch, Majid Mohammadi-Scholar, and Mehrangiz kar- Human Rights Lawyer

The Music will be Performed by Shahin Najafi

You will also enjoy an Art show by local artists

Here is the address:
George Washington University
Elliot School (1957 E street, NW)
Room #213

Here are two related videos on Youtube:

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About Elias Shams
I have been a serial entrepreneur in telecom and social media space for past 12 years or so. I hold a M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the George Washington University and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. I’ve lived and worked in many countries and cities including London England, Tehran Iran, Bonn Germany, Paris France, Alicante Spain, Delhi India, and my favorite of all Washington, DC of great US of A. Two of the greatest Washington, DC based companies I worked for and very proud of are Yurie Systems which was sold to Lucent in 1998 for $1.23 B and telezoo.com that I founded in 1999. I am currently the founder and awesomizer @ awesomize.me

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