Human Rights Workshop Ann Wright Presentation

September 6, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Queen Lili'uokalani Center for Students Services Room 411 Add to Calendar

Hawaii Center for Human Rights Research & Action

Presents

The Human Rights Workshop

2nd Annual Monthly Speakers Series

University of Hawaii
September 6, 2011
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Queen Lili’uokalani Center for Student Services
Room 411

Honoring Labor Rights
Ann Wright
A Path for Peace Rooted in Human Rights
Courage, Conscience & Career:

Standing Up for Service, Solidarity & Social Justice

Ann Wright grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas, and attended the University of Arkansas, where she received a master’s and a law degree. She also has a master’s degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College. After college, she spent thirteen years in the U.S. Army and sixteen additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel. She is airborne-qualified.

In 1987, Col.Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since Saigon. She was on the first State Department team to go to Afghanistan and helped reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua. On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace.

Wright is on the right side of many issues defining the peace movement of the 21st century standing with the women of CodePink and serving on numerous board of directors such as Global Exchange. Wright travels the world standing on the frontlines of freedom.


Event Sponsor
Hawaii Institute for Human Rights, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Joshua Cooper, 808 542 7204, joshua@hawaii.edu, http://www.humanrightshawaii.org

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