Screenings of the film A HUMAN QUESTION in New York City

[Guest guest]

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@...>