BRATTLEBORO — After two talks focusing on the ongoing crisis in Northeastern Syria, the Windham World Affairs Council's next program moves across the globe to another region, Southeast Asia.
On Friday, Nov. 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the parlor of the Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St. in Brattleboro, Windham World Affairs Council will present “Movement Of People: Trafficking and Migrating in Southeast Asia Today.”
The speaker will be Braema Mathi, a Singapore-based human rights activist who is currently in the Global Fellows program at Keene State College, sponsored by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.
The talk will be free and open to the public. There will be coffee, tea, and conversation at 7 p.m., and the talk will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Many people in Southeast Asia are moving from one country to another or within their own country to relocate, to work, or to find a new beginning. Some of these moves are planned. Other moves are forced, and some who move are forced into work in deplorable situations.
Mathi's presentation will be an overview of this phenomenon, a discussion of the factors and causes of these trends, and an examination of measures that ought to be available so that people are protected.