Jewher Ilham and her father Ilham Tohti.
Book Launch for Because I Have To: The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5 Online Event
10 am New York l 4 pm Vienna
Students from OSUN's network collaborative course on Human Rights Advocacy and OSUN Hubs for Connected Learning Initiatives invite network members to attend a student-led discussion and virtual launch for the book Because I Have To: The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle by Jewher Ilham. Jewher Ilham is a human rights advocate, an author and Forced Labor Project Coordinator at the Workers Rights Consortium. She is also the daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur economist serving a life sentence in China on separatism-related charges.
Jewher will be interviewed by Adam Braver, the editor of the book and professor at Roger Williams University who is the chair of the Scholars at Risk USA Steering Committee.
This semester, Human Rights Advocacy students are working with Scholars at Risk to support two threatened Uyghur Scholars, Ilham Tohti and Rahile Dawut, who was named Honorary Professor in the Humanities by OSUN in 2020.
This is an online event. Join via Zoom.
Website: https://osun-eu.zoom.us/j/94144852558?pwd=VE5RYlJaVlRHSno2MWVhU2tRUXJhQT09