Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Women and the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Treaty

 

Presented by Marsha Freeman

Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 12:00 P.M.

At Briggs and Morgan, PA, 2400 IDS Center, in Minneapolis

(Lunch will be served)

Marsha Freeman is a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.  She is the director of the International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) project, based at the University.  IWRAW is a women’s human rights resource and communication center, focusing on implementation of women’s human rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and other international human rights treaties.  The project serves a global network of over 5000 individuals and groups concerned with women’s human rights and monitors developments concerning women throughout the world and in the United Nations human rights bodies.  A lawyer by training, Freeman served as Reporter for the Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force for Gender Fairness in the Courts and works closely with other lawyers in the international human rights community.  She has published a number of articles on women’s human rights and serves as a resource/facilitator for training on using the CEDAW and other human rights treaties to advance the status of women, particularly in developing countries.  She holds a PhD in English and American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota.

This is the sixth in a series of lunchtime speakers dedicated to improving awareness of women’s human rights issues.  Please join us the first Thursday of each month for a new presentation.  For more information, please contact Amelia at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Please R.S.V.P. to Amelia Buttress at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, April 2nd.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107   email: abuttress@mnadvocates.org