Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

are pleased to announce the next lecture in our

Human Rights Speaker Series

Developing Power:

Women’s Human Rights

Presented by

Arvonne Fraser

Thursday, December 15, 2005, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

at

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

U.S. Bank Plaza (Formerly Pillsbury Center)

200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000, Minneapolis, MN

Through four U.N. world conferences on women, held between 1975 and 1995 in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing, an international women’s movement was created.  This movement may be seen around the world within all levels of society, especially in areas concerning domestic violence and women’s legal rights.  By writing about and organizing for change women have become a powerful force in today’s world.   We are very pleased to announce that Arvonne Frazer will discuss this powerful movement and her experience working to develop power with women’s human rights.

Arvonne Fraser is a senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and co-founder and director of the Institute’s Center on Women and Public Policy, former director of the International Women’s Rights Actions Watch, former ambassador to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

She co-edited “Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development”, a book that discusses the 20 years between 1975 and 1995, a period when there were four United Nation world conferences on women.  “These were the years that the international women’s movement boomed.”  Fraser was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Mexico City and Copenhagen conferences.

This human rights speaker series is held on the third Thursday of every other month.  Lectures are free and open to the public with advance registration.  Lunch will be provided for those who pre-register.  This is not a CLE event. For more information, please contact Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  You may find directions to Fredrikson & Byron at: www.fredlaw.com/contact.htm

Please R.S.V.P. to Aaron Van Alstine at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, December 13.  Phone: (612) 341-3302, ext. 127, email: avanalstine@mnadvocates.org