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1st
Lecture:
"Standing
at the Crossroads: The Changing State of Women’s and Human Rights
in Nepal"
Tuesday,
March 13
4:30 p.m., Hallock Auditorium
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
2nd
Lecture:
"Effecting Fundamental Social Change: Women’s
Community Activism in Nepal."
Wednesday,
March 14
7:30 p.m., Hallock Auditorium
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
Sponsored
by:
The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association in collaboration
with The
People Tree, Inc. and The Women’s Foundation of Nepal.
For
more information call:
Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, 440-775-8605
NEPALI WOMEN’S RIGHTS LECTURE TOUR TO STOP AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
MARCH 8, 2001--A Nepali women’s rights lecture series is coming to Oberlin College March 13 and 14 through the efforts of The People Tree, Inc., a nonprofit organization, in collaboration with the Women’s Foundation of Nepal and the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association.
Renu Sharma, Secretary General, and Tara Upreti, President, of the Women’s Foundation, will be speaking about their thirteen years of experience in women’s rights advocacy in Nepal.
Both women are founders, along with forty other women, of the non- profit Women’s Foundation. This organization provides a battered women’s shelter in Kathmandu, legal consultation and representation for women in trouble, skill development programs, literacy classes, aid to low-caste children, sustainable agriculture workshops and initiatives, gender workshops, community-led development programs and more.
In addition to their offices with the Women’s Foundation, both Sharma and Upreti hold national positions on human rights coalitions.
Sharma is an executive member for the Forum for Protection of Human Rights, the oldest Non-Government Organization in Nepal to monitor human rights abuses. In 1999 she received the Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs for her Women’s Foundation work on witch-hunting.
Upreti is the Convener for the Non-Governmental Organization of Nepal and a member of the Joint Advocacy Campaigning Committee, campaigning to change the twenty-two national laws that are biased against women.
The two formal lectures are entitled, "Standing at the Crossroads: The Changing State of Women’s (and Human) Rights in Nepal" and "Effecting Fundamental Social Change: Women’s Community Activism in Nepal."
Media Contact: Debbie Pillivant
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