Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

present

Women’s Human Rights Speaker Series

Incorporating Women’s Rights into U.S. Foreign Policy

Presented by Professor Kathryn Sikkink

Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 12:00 P.M.

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

(lunch will be served)

 Kathryn Sikkink, Arleen Carlson Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota, and has a M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Professor Sikkink's publications include Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, (co-authored with Margaret Keck); and The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (co-edited with Thomas Risse and Stephen Ropp).  She is the winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1999) and the International Studies Association's Chadwick Alger Award for best work in the area of international organization (1999).

This is the first 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, October 30th.

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