Across the Americas

STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WORLDWIDE:
A FREE COMMUNITY FORUM AND RALLY

PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING:

Ms. Ana Maria Murillo, Director of the U'wa Defense Project and Colombian Human Rights Defender:
Human Rights Issues of Colombian Indigenous Women

Ms. Caroline Skolnik, Ruth Rothstein CORE Center for HIV Prevention, Care and Research-Chicago and Volunteer health care worker in Rwanda:
Rwandan Women and HIV/AIDS

Dr. Mary Fabri, Director of Chicago's Marjorie Kovler Center for Treatment for Survivors of Torture:
Gender Issues in the Treatment of Torture Survivors

With a few words from area legislators Jan Schakowsky,
Julie Hamos and Beth Coulson

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2005
12:30-3 PM
LAKE STREET CHURCH-EVANSTON
607 LAKE STREET
(NW CORNER OF LAKE ST. AND CHICAGO AVE.)

sponsored by
Amnesty International Group 50-Evanston/Rogers Park, Evanston Township High School AI-USA Chapter & New Trier High School AI-USA Chapter

co-sponsored by Chicagoans for a Peaceful Colombia and other local groups

RALLY AT FOUNTAIN SQUARE!
After Forum at 3:30-4:30 for International Women's Day

- Music from 12:30-1 PM with "Marimba Oxib K'ajau," a Guatemalan Cultural Group.
- Speakers' Forum is from 1-3 PM.
- Representatives from local Women's Human Rights organizations will staff information tables.

For more information contact Carolyn (847) 328-4010 or Linda at (847) 869-2152.