| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY CELEBRATION MARCH 6
The Humphrey Institute's Center on Women and Public Policy is one of dozens of campus and community organizations behind at the Midwest's largest celebration of International Women's Day March 6 on the University of Minnesota campus. This ninth annual event will include workshops and performances that celebrate human rights and the diversity of women in Minnesota.
The celebration is free, open to the public, and scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 6, 2004, at University of Minnesota Law School's Walter Mondale Hall, 229 19th Ave. S., in Minneapolis. For more information and registration for the event, visit www.mnadvocates.org.
Inspired by the 4th United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, International Women's Day is celebrated all over the world, uniting women in a day of celebration of the progress made in women's struggle for equality, peace, and justice. Minnesota's celebration of International Women's Day will bring together people dedicated to constructing a world where women share equal opportunity and full realization of their human rights. More than 40 local organizations will contribute to International Women's Day events.
Workshops during the day will cover a range of issues - abortion policy; violence against women; legal issues faced by refugee and immigrant women; women in prisons; the Native American community; and Islam and women. Bonnie Campbell, the founding director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Violence Against Women, will be the keynote speaker. In 1997, Time magazine named Campbell one its 25 Most Influential Americans, writing, "Bonnie Campbell is the force behind a grassroots shift in the way Americans view the victim - and, more importantly, the perpetrators - of crimes against women."
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