Female protesters in Sara Square, Iraqi Kurdistan on March 25, 2011 © 2011 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch
Please join the Human Rights Watch Canada Committee and Authors at Harbourfront Centre for the inaugural Human Rights Watch Book Series celebrating the launch of the new book:
The Unfinished Revolution: Voices From the Global Fight for Women’s Rights:
The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the ongoing global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring has raised high hopes. More than 30 writers, Nobel Prize laureates, leading activists, top policymakers, and former victims have contributed to this anthology. Drawing from their personal experiences, they tackle some of the toughest questions involving the rights of women and girls, and suggest fresh solutions to complete this still unfinished revolution.
Learn more here:
http://www.hrw.org/unfinished-revolution
Featuring a conversation about women’s rights in the world today with:
Minky Worden – Minky Worden is Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch and editor of The Unfinished Revolution: Voices From the Global Fight for Women’s Rights. She is also the editor of China’s Great Leap and Torture. She previously served as Human Rights Watch’s Media Director, working with the world’s journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in some 90 countries worldwide
Erna Paris – Erna Paris is the author of seven acclaimed works of literary non-fiction and the winner of ten national and international writing awards for her books, feature writing, and radio documentaries. Her works have been published in fourteen countries and translated into eight languages. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies, and History was chosen as one of “The Hundred Most Important Books Ever Written in Canada” by the Literary Review of Canada.
Michele Landsberg – Michele Landsberg is a journalist, activist and author. An Officer of the Order of Canada, she is also the recipient of the Governor-General’s Persons’ Medal for her tireless advocacy on behalf of women. Michele was a columnist for the Toronto Star for twenty-five years and won two National Newspaper Awards during that time. She is the author of: Women and Children First, Michele Landsberg’s Guide to Children’s Books, This is New York, Honey! and the recently published Writing the Revolution.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18th, 2012
6:15 pm – Cocktail Reception & Celebration of the Canada Committee’s 10th Anniversary
7:30 pm – Human Rights Watch Book Series (Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto)
To purchase tickets, please call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at < ?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE ?> 416.973.4000 or visit
www.readings.org. The Box Office is open Tuesday – Saturday, 1pm to 6pm.
Special: $50 (Book Series, Reception, and signed copy of the book)
*$40 patrons, AUTHORS members, students, youth 25 & under
Regular: $10 (Book Series only)
*FREE for AUTHORS members, students, youth 25 & under
