You are welcome to the screenings of A Human Question

A Filim by T. Jayashree

How does patent laws affect access to HIV/AIDS medicines?
Where do intellectual property and human rights intersect?
Is private ownership of knowledge worth the cost of human lives?

4th October 2007, Thursday, 7 - 9pm
105 Jerome Green Hall, Columbia University, Corner of Amsterdam Avenue & 116th
Street (Sponsored by Columbia Global Justice )

5th October 2007, Friday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
UN Church Center, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, corner of 1st Avenue & 44th Street
(Sponsored by Religions for Peace)

Meet the director, T. Jayashree, for Q&A following the screenings

A Human Question * traces the story of the global struggle to make HIV/AIDS
drugs more affordable and available, A Human Question raises key questions of
whether private ownership of knowledge can be at ** the costs of human life?

The film explores the complex world of Patents and HIV/AIDS medicines
by connecting and contrasting personal narratives with those of
international lobbyists and** activists. The human questions raised in the film
will force us to rethink the relationship between Intellectual Property and
Human rights .*

Manohar Elavarthi
e-mail: <manoharban@...>