From the University of North Carolina Asheville:
UNC Asheville to Host Presentation on Child Detention in Palestine, Nov. 14
Azadeh Shahshahani, legal and advocacy director for Project South, will present a discussion of detention of Palestinian children by Israeli security forces, in a free public talk at noon on Monday, Nov. 14 in UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center, in the Mission Health Mountain View Room.
Shahshahani formerly served as national security/immigrants’ rights project director with the ACLU of Georgia, and she is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Through the NLG, she participated in international delegations, including a delegation focused on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners. Shahshahani also serves as chair of Georgia Detention Watch, co-chair of the U.S. Human Rights Network Working Group on National Security, and on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists.
Shahshahani has a master’s degree in modern Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of Michigan, and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where she was articles editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law.
This event is co-sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Belk Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities, and by Just Peace for Israel/Palestine of Western North Carolina. For more information contact Belk Distinguished Professor Mark Gibney, mgibney@unca.edu or 828.250.3870.
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