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2008 Annual Conference "Transforming Development, Shaping our Global Future"
Start: 8:30 am
End: 5:00 pm

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 SID-Washington 2008 Annual Conference

"Transforming Development, Shaping Our Global Future"
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008



The conference features dynamic, high-level speakers from around the world who will provide their visions of the future of international development. As 2008 marks an important U.S. Presidential election year, the SID-Washington annual conference offers an excellent opportunity to help shape the development agenda of the next administration.

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"The President's International Education Initiative"
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm

"The President's International Education Initiative"

Please join SID-Washington's Education for Development workgroup for a special presentation by Dr. Thomas E. Corts, Coordinator for The President’s Initiative for International Education

At a Global Health and Literacy Luncheon last September, First Lady Laura Bush introduced Dr. Thomas Corts as the Coordinator for PIEI, a new position created to support the basic education initiative and to coordinate the U.S. Government's international education activities. The President’s FY 2009 International Affairs Budget includes $94 million for the initiative to "provide an additional 4 million students with access to quality basic education through 2012."
 
Before taking the new position, Dr. Corts served for over 20 years as the president of Samford University, Alabama's largest private university. Previously, Dr. Corts served as president of Wingate College, coordinator for the Higher Education Consortium in Kentucky, and several key positions at Georgetown Colleage in Kentucky.
 
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"Traffic: An MTV EXIT Special Screening"
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm

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SID-Washington is proud to co-sponsor together with USAID and MTV for this exclusive screening of Traffic. 

To be followed by a discussion featuring Thomas Ehr, Executive Director, MTV Europe Foundation and Simon Goff, Campaign Director, MTV EXIT

Traffic is a unique and powerful program presented by Lucy Liu that addresses the issue of human trafficking in the Asia-Pacific.  Told through the stories of real people, the show features Anna, trafficked from the Philippines and forced into prostitution; Eka, an Indonesian woman, trafficked into forced domestic servitude in Singapore; and Min Aung, from Burma, trafficked to Thailand and imprisoned for 2 years in a factory.  Their harrowing stories are told alongside other people in the trafficking chain, including a trafficker, a young man who pays for sex, an anti-trafficking police officer, and a woman who runs a shelter for abused victims.

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