Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series 

Presented by Loretta Frederick

Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 12:00 P.M.

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

(lunch will be served)

Loretta Frederick is the legal counsel for the Criminal Justice Center of the Battered Women’s Justice Project, a national resource center on domestic violence legal issues.   She is also a consultant for the United States Marine Corps on the development of its coordinated community response to domestic violence on Marine bases.  Loretta has been active in initiating justice and social system reforms on behalf of battered women since 1978 and served for 10 years on the Battered Women’s Advisory Committee to the Minnesota Department of Corrections.  As a volunteer for Minnesota Advocates, Loretta contributed to the design and provision of the first and second Inter-Balkan Conference on domestic violence in Tirana, Albania (1996) and Sofia, Bulgaria (1997), and was a trainer at a series of three conferences on domestic violence as a human rights issue in Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria (1997).

This is the ninth 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, July 9th.

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