News & Events

January 5, 2007

CONTACT:

Carl Young, Interim Director of Communications
425.352.8256
cyoung@cascadia.edu

January 8-11 is Human Rights Week at Cascadia Community College

Bothell, WA - The Global Human Rights Alliance and several Cascadia student groups will host events during the week of January 8th to recognize Human Rights Week. Speakers, films and panel discussions will focus on issues of human rights and economic justice regionally and around the world. There is no charge to attend the events, and the public is invited. The schedule of events includes:

Monday, January 8th
Which Rights Should Be Universal?
Speaker: Professor William J. Talbot
Time and place: 3:30pm-5:30pm in UW2-005

Tuesday, January 9th
A series of short films and discussion of: Women’s experiences in Ethiopia and Sri Lanka
Time and place: 11:00am-1:00pm in CC1-102

Women at a Time of War, a panel presentation and discussion
Time and place: 3:30pm-5:30pm in CC2-380

Wednesday, January 10th
American Foreign Policy toward the Horn of Africa and the Media; The Ethiopian Case
Speakers Al Mariam and Elyas Wondimu will present
Time and place: 11:00am-12:45pm in UW2-005

Thursday, January 11th
Film: Buyer Be Fair (more information: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bbf.html)
Time and place: 9:30am-10:30am in CC1-110

Film: Life and Debt (more information: http://www.lifeanddebt.org/ )
Time and place: 11:00am-1:00pm in CC2-380

Film: Black Gold (more information: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/story.php )
Time and place: 1:15pm-3:20pm in UW2-005

Panel & film on sustainability
Time and place: 3:30pm-5:00pm in UW2-005

Film: Black Gold – second showing
Time and place: 6:00pm-7:30pm in the North Creek Café

Sponsors for the events include the Global Human Rights Alliance, Cascadia Activities Board, Cascadia Student Government and Planet Cascadia. The goal of the activities is to facilitate learning, dialogue and critical thinking regarding global and national human rights issues and to encourage reflection on the linkage between international trends and developments at home in the areas of human rights and civil liberties.

The Human Rights Week library research guide is online at: http://www.uwb.edu/library/guides/hrweek/. The portal provides links to International Human Rights resources, as well as more specific websites and sources about women's rights and human rights in Africa.

The timing of the events builds on International Human Rights Day and prepares for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. December 10th is recognized throughout the world as International Human Rights Day. On this day in 1948, the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

For directions to Cascadia Community College visit www.cascadia.edu.

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