Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Women’s Human Rights Law: An Introduction

 

Presented by Robin Phillips

Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 12:00 P.M.

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

(lunch will be served)

Robin Phillips is an attorney and the Deputy Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  She also serves as the Director of the Women’s Human Rights Program for the organization.  Ms. Phillips has conducted fact-finding missions to document violations of women’s human rights in Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Poland, Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.  She has organized international conferences and trainings on human rights and NGO development issues.  Ms. Phillips has written on a variety of topics related to women’s human rights including trafficking in women, employment discrimination, sexual harassment and domestic violence.  She teaches a course on women’s international human rights at the University of Minnesota Law School.  She also helped lead Minnesota Advocates’ delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in September 1995.  Prior to Minnesota Advocates, Ms. Phillips practiced law with the firm of Briggs and Morgan in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

This is the third 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, January 1st.

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