Upcoming Event on the Oil Extractive Industry in Africa

Catholic Relief Services is co-hosting a special event with Fordham University on Monday, September 27, 2004 to help raise awareness of the oil extractive industry in Africa, so mark your calendars!

Details:
Date: September 27, 2004
Time: Panel discussion will begin at 6 PM with a reception to follow
Place: Fordham Law School (Lincoln Center Campus), 140 W. 62nd Street, 1st Floor Amphitheater

The panelists will include:
- Ken Silverstein, journalist, Los Angeles Times, has covered the oil issue
- Arvind Ganesan, Business and Human Rights Program, Human Rights Watch
- Dr. Emmanuel from the Center for Social and Corporate Responsibility, a CRS partner in Nigeria
- Ian Gary, Strategic Issues Advisor for the Extractives Industry and Conflict in Africa, Catholic Relief Services

We hope that you will share this with your networks and help broaden the discussion regarding oil in Africa and the challenges and possibilities that it brings to the people of the continent. For background reading, you may like to read the report that Ian Gary co-authored entitled "Bottom of the Barrel: Africa's Oil Boom and the Poor." You can find the executive summary, as well as the full report at: www.catholicrelief.org/Africanoil.cfm.

Please pass this information on to your networks and get it on people's calendars now. If you have ANY questions regarding this, please feel free to contact Karen Moul at kmoul@catholicrelief.org or (410) 951-7434.