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Posted on Monday, March 05, 2007 - General News
William Schulz, Former Executive Director of Amnesty International, Speaks on Human Rights Violations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/5/2007
CONTACT:
- Carolyn Long, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, 360/546/9737, long@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Lori Brockman-Torres, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546/9601, brockman@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
Detailing the work of Amnesty International over the past three decades, Schulz will highlight human rights issues throughout the world today and issue a call to action from the audience to incite global and local change.
Schulz has traveled the globe in pursuit of a world free from human rights violations. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.; a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; and an Adjunct Professor at the New School in New York City.
During his twelve years at Amnesty, Schulz led missions to Liberia, Tunisia, Northern Ireland, and Sudan and visited other places as diverse as Cuba and Mongolia. He is the author of two books on human rights, "In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All" (2001, Beacon Press) and "Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights" (2003, Nation Books); the contributing editor of an upcoming book from the University of Pennsylvania Press, "The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary." In 2002, the "New York Review of Books" declared, "William Schulz...has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States."
This afternoon symposium is part of the Annual Public Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series, and is sponsored by the Associated Students of WSU Vancouver, the WSU Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service and the Columbian newspaper (official media sponsor). Additional funding and support for this event come from the WSU Vancouver Office of the Chancellor and the WSU Vancouver Center for Social and Environmental Justice. The event is free and open to the public, with parking available in the blue lot for $2, or in metered spaces. For more information on this event, visit http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/events/schulz.
The Annual Public Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series is also hosting an evening presentation this year by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Visit http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/events/hersh for details.
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Photo: Dr. William F. Schulz. Click thumbnail for higher resolution image.
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