Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Mainstreaming Gender:  Advocating for Women’s Rights in the International Criminal Court

presented by

Barbara Frey

Thursday, December 4th, 2003, at 12:00 P.M.

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

(complimentary lunch will be served)

            Barbara A. Frey is Director of the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.  The Program provides academic, research and internship opportunities for students in the field of international human rights.

                        Frey was elected in 2000 as an alternate member of the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a body of independent experts who advise the United Nations on human rights policy. In 2002, Frey was appointed by the Sub-Commission to  conduct a three-year study on the issue of preventing human rights abuses committed with small arms and light weapons. Frey served from 1985 through 1996 as Executive Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Under her tenure as Director, Minnesota Advocates grew from a small volunteer group to become one of the largest U.S.-based international human rights organizations.

                        Frey has been teaching international human rights at the University of Minnesota in both the Law School and the Institute for Global Studies since 1989.  She is the immediate Past Chair of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Committee on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of Directors of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

                        Frey has received widespread recognition for her work in international human rights and foreign policy, including being recognized by President Clinton at a Human Rights Day ceremony in the White House in December 1996.  Frey was named the 2001 Myra Bradwell Award winner by Minnesota Women Lawyers for promoting the interests of women in the legal profession and in the community.  In 1996 she was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by her alma mater, the University of Notre Dame.  She has also received the Twin Cities International Citizen Award (1996), the McKnight Fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar (1996), and the Advocacy Award of the Litigation Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association (1993).  Frey was selected as a 1991 Fellow to the British-American Project, and was a member of the 1990 inaugural class of Mondale Fellows at the Humphrey Institute.

                        Frey is a 1982 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.  She received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1978.  She worked as an associate lawyer at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis from 1983-85.  Frey is married to Howard Orenstein; they have three children.

Please RSVP to Mary Hunt at Minnesota Advocates for

 Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, December 2^nd.

Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 107   Email: mhunt@mnadvocates.org

This December presentation will mark the end of our two-year Speaker Series in partnership with Briggs and Morgan.  We are grateful for their support of this project, and look forward to resuming the series in the near future.