Women's Leadership Lecture Series Featuring June Zeitlin

Tuesday, December 8, 2015
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM
Laughlin Music Hall, Welker Room

Cost: Free

Making Pittsburgh a CEDAW City

Did you know the U.S. still has not ratified the U.N.’s 1979 CEDAW resolution? The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) affirms the fundamental human rights and equality for women around the world. It seeks to end sex trafficking and violence against women, expand girls’ access to education, ensure women’s right to vote, fight maternal mortality, and end workplace discrimination against women. Now many U.S. cities are proceeding on the local level and adopting ordinances or resolutions to make their cities equalizers for women. Will Pittsburgh be next?

June Zeitlin directs the CEDAW Education Project at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, DC and has been a leader on women’s issues nationally and globally for more than thirty years. She is a Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Issues. She was also the Executive Director of the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, where she helped lead a successful global campaign for the creation of UN Women, and worked at the Ford Foundation, overseeing programs on women’s rights. After receiving a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1973, she worked for the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug and then joined the US Department of Health and Human Services as the Director of the Office on Domestic Violence.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear a global champion of women’s rights talk about what we can do here in Pittsburgh!

Refreshments served.

Registration

Fee : Free

Registration has closed. Please contact Melody Harris at mharris@chatham.edu for additional information.

Location

Laughlin Music Hall, Welker Room

Contact Information

Melody Harris
(412) 365-1578
mharris@chatham.edu