Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

 are pleased to announce the next lecture in our

Human Rights and National Security Speaker Series

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in a

Post 9/11 World:  Sudan, Afghanistan and Iraq

presented by

Leonard S. Rubenstein

Thursday, October 21, 12:30-1:30 P.M.

*Please note the change from our usual 12:00-1:00 time

at

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

4000 Pillsbury Center

200 South Sixth Street

Minneapolis, MN

Since 9/11, even in the midst of war—indeed as part of the justification for war—the promotion of democracy and human rights has been a been rhetorical focal point of U.S. foreign policy. What has that meant in practice? Mr. Rubenstein will examine issues including accountability for war crimes, humanitarian intervention, the rights of women, and other key human rights issues in post-9/11 foreign policy. Application will be made for one CLE credit.

Leonard S. Rubenstein has been Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that promotes health by protecting human rights, since 1986. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Wesleyan University, Mr. Rubenstein has spent twenty-five years engaged in advocacy for human and civil rights. He previously served as Executive Director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C. Since Mr. Rubenstein became director of Physicians for Human Rights, the organization has received human rights awards from the Jacobs Institute for Women’s Health, the Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay and the International Law section of the District of Columbia Bar. He has been engaged in human rights issues in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Kosovo, and elsewhere, and has written extensively in the field of human rights, medical ethics and mental health. Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the board of directors of Mental Disability Rights International, the board of directors of Interaction and the advisory board of Global Lawyers and Physicians, and serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Human Rights Law of the Individual Rights Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Rubenstein is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association’s Mission Award and the Congressional Minority Caucuses’ 2003 Healthcare Heroes Award.       

This human rights speaker series will be held on the third Thursday of each month throughout 2003. Lectures are free and open to the public (registration required). For more information, please contact Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. You may find directions to Fredrikson & Byron at: www.fredlaw.com/contact.htm

Please R.S.V.P. to Min Chong at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

by noon on Tuesday, October 19^th.