Minnesota Advocates Upcoming Events
From: Katie Gaughan (kgaughanmnadvocates.org)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:58:15 -0800 (PST)
 

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Upcoming Events

More information about these and other Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights 
events can be found on our website at www.mnadvocates.org 
<http://www.mnadvocates.org/> .

 

 

Minnesota Advocates' 25th Anniversary: January Kick-Off Celebration

Please join us for an open house at our offices with ethnic food, live music, 
and stations describing projects we've been working on.

Thursday, January 10, 2008, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m., with brief remarks at 6 p.m.

At Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, 650 Third Avenue South Suite 550 
Minneapolis, MN 55402

For more information, contact Julia Kashaeva at jkashaeva [at] mnadvocates.org 
or Katie Gaughan at kgaughan [at] mnadvocates.org. 

 

 

Women's Human Rights Film Series

Featuring Crimes of Honour, presented by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights 
and The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 7 p.m.

At Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul

Free and open to the public

 

Across the Islamic world, hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or 
burned to death each year by their male relatives, because they are thought to 
have dishonored their families by engaging in unacceptable relationships. 
Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, Crimes of Honour captures the horrific 
tragedy of this practice, examines the wider societal response, and highlights 
the work of three women fighting to end this violence. Discussion following the 
film will be led by Cheryl A. Thomas, Director of the Women's Human Rights 
Program at Minnesota Advocates.

 

Additional screening on February 27th at 5:30 p.m.  at Humphrey Center, 
University of Minnesota, presented by the Center on Women and Public Policy.

 

 

Women's Human Rights Speaker Series

Women, Truth and Transition, featuring Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dorsey & 
Whitney Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School Director and Professor 
of Law at the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in 
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Presented by Briggs and Morgan, Professional 
Association and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. 

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

At Briggs and Morgan, Minnesota Room, 2200 IDS Center, 80 S. 8th St., 
Minneapolis

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited; registration required. Please 
RSVP to Tina at shouareau [at] briggs.com or 612-977-8126 by Friday, January 
18th. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. Application will be made for 
one CLE credit.

 

Transitional justice has been of substantial interest to both domestic and 
international lawyers for many years. Lawyers have had a healthy pre-occupation 
with "Dealing with the Past", namely the morality and law of holding human 
rights abusers accountable at the point of societal change. In this context 
academic lawyers have been mostly concerned with and written about trials, 
courts, truth commissions, amnesties, and punishment forms. Gender has not been 
a significant concern for transitional justice even though all of these 
specialised accountability mechanisms have clear and often profound 
implications for women. A fundamental premise of this talk is that the justice 
in transition is highly gendered. The analysis will focus particularly on what 
kinds of "wrongs" are accounted for, and which are not, and the relationship 
between a gendered truth and a politics of transformation for both men and 
women in new political dispensations. The presentation is concerned with the 
manner in which the gender narrative is often missing from or compromised in 
the transitional justice fora. It will explore the reasons for and forms of 
these silences, exclusions and compromised presences.

 

This is one in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness 
of women's human rights issues. Please join us the second Tuesday of 
alternating months for additional presentations. For more information, contact 
Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, mhunt [at] mnadvocates.org 
or 612-341-3302, ext. 107.

 

 

 

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