Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Continuing work in New York for MHS



I introduced you to Nurbeik earlier, he is this fascinating Kyrgyz lawyer who is daily on the news and who leads court cases against the government for the lack of transparency in budgets and allocation of funds. He works with MHS as well.

He came last week to DC for a meeting with the International Budget Project (IBP) and this week to New York City for meetings with the Human Rights Watch.

Meanwhile, as I am continuing work for MHS as of New York, I met with Nurbeik to show him the progress that has been made on the presentation I am preparing for MHS.

Together we discussed several issues related to the presentation and he provided me with updates to include. We will continue meetings today and Wednesday.

MHS will use this presentation to advocate for its causes, mainly the budget monitoring program, on the World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2008.

Maria is a Researcher for Europe and Central Asia at the Human Rights Watch in New York City.

All right then, later :)

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