Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Trafficking of Women and Girls:

A Growing International Crisis

Presented by

Robin Phillips, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights and

Loan Huynh, Fredrickson and Byron, P.A.

Thursday, May 1, 2003, 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 Executive Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  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 and written on a variety of topics related to women’s human rights including trafficking in women, employment discrimination, sexual harassment and domestic violence. 

Loan Huynh is a Senior Associate in Fredrikson & Byron's Immigration group.  She practices exclusively in immigration and nationality law focusing on employment and family based immigration, naturalization, non-immigrant visas, deportation/removal litigation, consular processing, asylum, I-9 compliance and audits, and employer sanctions.  She has extensive experience in preparing foreign labor certification applications  (reduction in recruitment and traditional) and litigating immigration cases

This is one 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, April 29th

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