Women's Human Rights Activist to Launch Lecture Series

Charlotte Bunch, founder and executive director, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, and Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. President Bill Clinton awarded Bunch the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights in 1999, and the following year she received a Women Who Make a Difference Award from the National Council on Research for Women.

Bunch will speak on “Passionate Politics: The Intersection of Gender, Culture, and Human Rights.”

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick

This program launches Institute for Research on Women’s 2008-2009 Distinguished Lecture Series, “The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture.” The institute sponsors this series with the support of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The annual welcome sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership will precede the talk at 3:30 p.m.