Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

A History of Women’s Human Rights Advocacy

Presented by Arvonne Fraser

Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 12:00 P.M.

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

(lunch will be served)

Arvonne Fraser, Senior Fellow Emerita, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, is an internationally recognized women’s human rights advocate.  She served as U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 1993-4. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, Austria, 1993 and headed U.S. delegations to UN preparatory meetings for the Fourth World Conference on Women.   Fraser was the first coordinator of the Office of Women in Development for the U.S. Agency for International Development.  As a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, she organized and directed the International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) to monitor the implementation of the international women’s human rights treaty (CEDAW) and co-founded the Center on Women and Public Policy.

This is the second 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, December 4th.

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