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April 15th 2006 Nagaad Times Page 14
April 21st
Human Trafficking Workshop
R. Mark Frey
Attorney at Law
Please circulate
The Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota, in collaboration
with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law
School,
present:
United Front for Children:
Global Efforts to Combat Sexual Trafficking in Travel and Tourism
Keynote Speaker: Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF
Friday, April 21, 2006
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Coffman Union Theatre - University of Minnesota
http://www.hrusa.org/workshops/trafficking
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. One of the
consequences of easy and cheap global travel is an increase in the reported
sexual exploitation of children in tourist destinations.
On Friday April 21, 2006, the international conference will
explore the relationship between tourism and
child sex trafficking and to address the human rights implications of this
nexus. The conference will engage leading experts in four sectors that
have
critical roles in preventing sexual exploitation of children:
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, government agencies
and
corporations. Among the concrete outcomes we hope to achieve at this
conference are a critical look at existing norms, a commitment from new
business partners to make the issue a priority through implementation of
Codes of Conduct and other means, identification of research priorities
and
the support of student initiatives in U.S. colleges and universities.
Other featured presenters include:
Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale
of
Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman and CEO of the Carlson Companies
Ambassador John Miller, U.S. State Department Office to Monitor and
Combat
Trafficking in Persons
Melanne Verveer, Board Chair, Vital Voices Global Partnership
Lyndall De Marco, Director, International Tourism Partnership Director
The conference is free, but registration is required as space is limited.
For more information or to register online, please visit our website at
http://www.hrusa.org/workshops/trafficking or contact
hrminor@umn.edu.
Discrimination Against African Nursing Students
African Nursing Students Go To Court Against Anoka College
From: Liberian Human Rights and Refugee Welfare Organization
Subj: Academic Discrimination Against African Immigrant Nursing Students
at Anoka Technical College.
The Liberian Human Rights and Refugee Welfare Oranization, which chairs
the African Consortium research team at colleges providing nursing courses
will be meeting the Anoka College to complain of academic discrimination
against African immigrant students. We have evidence from our two years of
research work against Hennepin Technical College and Anoka for discrimination
in their nursing departments against African immigrant students.
Thanks,
Kirkpatrick Weah, Executive Director Liberia Human Rights Org,
Chair African Consortium
763-566-1662
lihrrwo@yahoo.com
Save the Date
African Women in the Diaspora Conference June 22 2006
AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE DIASPORA CONFERENCE 2 –
Empowering African Women, Ensuring Africa’s Future
The MN African Women's Association
(MAWA) and her collaborators present
the second bi-annual African Women in
the Diaspora conference in MN entitled
African Women in the Diaspora:
Empowering African Women, Ensuring
Africa’s Future.
The conference will be held on June 22,
2006, at the University of MN's Mondale
Law Center, 229 19th Ave. So.
Minneapolis, MN 55455.
This will be a wonderful opportunity for
those in the health, social work, education,
legal and law enforcement fields to
learn about working with New
Americans from Africa. Continuing
Education credits will be sought for a
couple of fields.
The keynote address will be given by the
Judge and Prosecutor from the 2005
Cannes Film Festival Award winning
documentary Sisters In Law – Judge
Beatrice Ntuba and Prosecutor Vera
Ngassa from Cameroon. Breakout sessions
will give opportunities to focus on
African immigrant and refugee issues,
local demographics, youth and education,
HIV/AIDS and other health and
cultural challenges, and leadership
development. This year features the
Africa Oboso Awards for African women
and friends of Africa in five categories
including: Clearing the Way,
Accentuating the Positive, Staying the
Course, and Friend of Africa for those
who work to promote African women’s
courses. Awardees come from other
States, Africa and Europe.
Seeking information on traffic stops of immigrants
As part of a Humphrey Institute Seminar on
Immigration and Social Justice my students are
looking into possible civil rights violations of
immigrants.
If you have information on either of the following
questions, please send me an email at
ennelly@hhh.umn.edu. At this point we are not
ready to
contact individuals, but are just trying to learn
whether you or your organization know of specific
examples of immigrants who have been unfairly
pulled over while driving. All information will be
strictly confidential.
1. We know that in some other states there have
been charges that law enforcement officers have
pulled over drivers for no other reason than that
they were suspected of being foreign-born. If you
know of individuals who
have had this happen, please send me an email.
2. We have heard of a number of incidents in which
Border Patrol guards have been called in to translate
for police or sheriff's departments who have
More details to follow. You can check
for details later MAWA's website:
www.mawanet.org or e-mail MAWA’s
Executive Director Nyango Melissa
Nambangi at mawa0302@yahoo.com or
call MAWA at 612-302-3400.
Please share this information with others
who will find it of value. Thank
you.
Ms. M. N. Nambangi, Executive
Director
Minnesota African Women's Association
- MAWA
1201 37th Avenue North, Minneapolis,
MN 55412
Ph: 612/302-3454; Fax: 612-522-4503
mawa0302@yahoo.com
www.mawanet.org
Home of the African Girls'
Initiative for Leadership &
Empowerment, AGILE)
Mission: Promoting the health
and well-being of African
women and their families
through research, education,
advocacy and programming.
pulled over drivers. If you know of specific cases in
which this has
occurred, please send me an email.
Thanks very much,
Katherine Fennelly
Professor
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
301 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
tel: 612-625-6685