| Friday, February 24, Cabot Auditorium,
6:45pm |
|
Keynote Address: 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi
2003 Nobel Peace
Prize (the first Iranian and first Muslim woman); Lawyer and
Human Rights Activist, Iran; Former President of Bench 24, the
Tehran City Court (first woman in the history of Iranian justice
to have served as a judge - she was forced to step down
in the wake of the 1979 revolution); Cofounder and President,
Association for Support of Children’s Rights; Cofounder
and President, Human Rights Defence Centre; Author, The Rights
of Women
Introduction and Presentation of Jean Mayer Global Citizenship
Award
Meena Bhasin, EPIIC Colloquium Member, and Negar Razavi,
EPIIC 2003-04 Colloquium Member
Translator Banafsheh Keynoush
|