Human Rights Awareness Week Nov. 2-6, 2009

Monday, Nov. 2-Friday Nov. 6     11 AM- 1 PM   Human Rights Activities/Info Fair, Atrium, Steiman College Center

Monday, Nov. 2   

Film screening - 7:30 PM  The Visitor (2008). Followed by a panel discussion on immigration. Donation requested (proceeds go to PIRC, Pennsylvania Immigration Resources Center).

Tuesday, Nov. 3  

7:30 PM Bonchek Lecture Hall (LSP 142) Lecture by E. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery (Simon & Schuster 2008) and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 

Fair Trade Café - noon, Writers House 

7 PM, Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall,  Lecture by Sister  Maruca Lancerio, Mayan nun and founder of  The Women's Project in Quiche, Guatemala:  "After the Violence in Gutemala: Women's Cooperatives as Sowers of Hope,"  

Thursday, Nov. 5 

7:30 PM Hensel Hall, Barshinger Center, Lecture by Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times columnist and co-author, with his wife, Sheryl Wu Dunn, of "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" (Knopf 2009). Tickets are free but required and are available at the Roschel Box Office M-F 12-6 PM.

Friday, Nov. 6 

Discussion lunch at the Women's center - 12-1 PM, "Helping or Interefering: Cultural Relativism and Women's Rights."