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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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