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Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture: Shanthi Dairiam Speaking on Women's Human Rights


November 10, 2011


Shanti Dairiam, Founder of International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific and Expert Member of the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women , speaks about women's global and local organizing for human rights. Dairiam is the 14th Annual Dame Nita Barrow visiting scholar and distinguished guest at OISE.
Dairium's lecture wil be: The Promise and the Reality: A World View from Women's Global and Local Organizing.
The public is welcome to this free, accessible lecture.
Reception to follow at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education library, 252 Bloor St. West

Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Venue: Ignatieff Theatre
Location: 15 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON
For information contact: Su Donovaro, sudonovaro@gmail.com
Categories: Women

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