“Building Bridges” is a student initiated, student led diversity conference dedicated to addressing today’s pressing global and social issues. This year’s conference, “Immigration: Surviving the Land of Opportunity,” will focus on the two sides of immigration: the struggles immigrants face and the strength required to survive these struggles every day.

“Immigration 101” is a fun, interactive workshop that provides participants with an overview of United States immigration law. The audience will be introduced to basic concepts of immigration law, including refugee and asylum processes, family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, and deportation.

The Advocates' Cheryl Thomas, Director of the Women's Human Rights Program, will speak about Morocco on March 25 at 7:00pm at the Breaking the Veils: Women Artists from the Islamic World exhibit.

On Monday, April 5th The Advocates is co-sponsoring a screening of the film, "God Grew Tired of Us" at the sixth annual National Public Health Week Film Festival.

Bones of Contention will feature Professor Clyde Snow and Dr. German Vargas Farias.

Please join Dorsey & Whitney LLP and The Advocates for Human Rights’ Death Penalty Project for an ethics CLE on the death penalty.

“A Quiet Revolution” is a celebration of the human spirit. This is the account of women who have lost everything and then survived the perilous escape from Tibet across the high Himalayas. From their principal refuge in Dharamsala, India, to small settlements scattered across the globe, these women have become the architects and builders of the new Tibet.

The Daughter of L'Arsenal is the story of a young woman who escapes a web of dysfunctional family values and social and political repression in rural Haiti to become a successful corporate lawyer in the US.

The Advocates for Human Rights presents the 27th Annual Human Rights Awards Dinner on May 20th, 2010 at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The 2010 Keynote Speaker and Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award Winner will be Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I Have Been Silent About.

In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history remains largely unknown.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao tells the story of Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love.

For years the Cooper daughters -- Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice -- blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage in the West African nation of Liberia. But on April 12, 1980 a group of soldiers staged a coup d'etat, assassinating Liberian President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet.

Over the past sixteen years, Greg Mortenson, through his nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI), has worked to promote peace through education by establishing more than 130 schools, most of them for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.