Join us for our Open House on Wednesday, February 10th from 4:00-6:00pm. See The Advocates' new office space, meet our staff and board, and learn about our current work!

"Sentencing the Victim" is a mesmerizing documentary that explores one woman's journey to heal after a violent assault.

On February 26-27, St. Olaf College will host the 10TH ANNUAL Globalization and Social Responsibility Conference. The theme for this year's conference is, "Achieving the Dream? Contemporary Immigration Issues." The Advocates' Madeline Lohman will present on "Immigration Law and Policy" at 10:15 on February 27th.
 

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics.

The Advocates invities you to a Spring House Party in support of the Women's Human Rights Program and in celebration of International Women's Day.

The Advocates for Human Rights and the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota will present the 15th Annual International Women's Day Celebration on March 6, 2010 at Coffman Union on the University of Minnesota campus.  More information here.

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.

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.

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.