Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival

 
Steve Crawshaw,  UN Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch will be the featured speaker at the 2009 Autumn John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture at York University’s Glendon College.
 
Crawshaw joined Human Rights Watch as London Director in 2002, and became the organization’s United Nations advocacy director in 2006. Before joining Human Rights Watch he worked for many years as a journalist with The Independent where he held numerous positions including Germany Bureau Chief, Chief Foreign Correspondent, and Foreign News Editor. Stories he covered included the east European revolutions, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Balkan wars.
 
He is the author of Goodbye to the USSR (1992) and of Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century (2004). He is co-author of Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity and a Bit of Ingenuity Can Change the World, to be published in 2010.
 
The title of Steve’s speech is “Making an Impact: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in a Changing World.”
 
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Room 102, Glendon Hall, Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Ave. (Click to link to Google map)
 
Seating is limited. To RSVP, e-mail events@glendon.yorku.ca or telephone 416-487-6727.