COSTA MESA : OCC Faculty to Host Human Rights Panel
Faculty members at Orange Coast College will host a conference on human rights next week.
The college’s International Education Committee--which encourages teaching students about their place in a global community--will put on “Human Rights Day of the United Nations” panels Thursday, OCC Assistant Prof. Fazlollah Berdjis said.
Speakers will talk about how the United Nations can work to prevent oppression worldwide and are likely to discuss civil war in the former Yugoslavia, Berdjis said.
Tamy Jacobi, deputy director of the Western region of Amnesty International, will give a report on human rights violations across the world, said Berdjis.
Other speakers scheduled to appear include: Cal State Fullerton Prof. Roger Dittmann, a nuclear physicist and chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Federation of American Scientists; Kurt Bergel, co-director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Chapman University, and James F. Nelson, former presiding judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court and chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States.
The free conference will be from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in Room 119 of OCC’s Fine Arts Building. For more information, call (714) 556-6509.
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