[Hamp-law] Natinal Security and Human Rights, April 8

[Flavio Risech]

The Hampshire College Law Program Invites you to join us in 
considering our collective future:



"National Security
within a Human Rights Framework"



Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Esq.


Founder and President

National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement



Ms. Akhlaghi will explore how national security objectives can be 
achieved through a human rights framework, and how human security as 
the genesis of the dialogue can lead to effective national and 
international security policies. In her talk, she will look at 
successful models in Northern Ireland, truth and reconciliation 
commission of South Africa and the redress movement in the United 
States can aid in providing a new perspective in our approach today.



Tuesday, April 8, 2008

5 pm

West Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire Campus





Banafsheh Akhlaghi, an attorney of Iranian descent, is the Founder 
and President of the National Legal Sanctuary for Community 
Advancement (NLSCA), a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring 
the human rights and dignity of Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South 
Asian (MEMSA) peoples.

Since September 11, 2001, she has represented 2700 individuals of 
Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, who have been 
detained or questioned by the FBI and the Dep't. of Homeland Security.

Prior to practicing law, Ms. Akhlaghi was a professor of 
Constitutional Law at the John F. Kennedy University School of Law, 
in California.  In 2001, Ms. Akhlaghi gave up her teaching position 
to create Akhlaghi & Associates, a private practice specializing in 
immigration and civil rights post 9/11. In May of 2005, NLSCA 
broadened its focus to human rights at the international level, when 
Ms. Akhlaghi was retained as a consultant to the United Nations 
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has testified before 
Congress on numerous occasions, including the 2003 Amnesty 
International Racial Profiling Hearings, and she regularly conducts 
cultural Sensitivity Trainings with branches of the Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission (EEOC). 

She has won numerous awards from the media, legal associations, and 
the U.S. Congress.



She has been featured on
Democracy Now with Amy Goodman
Her clients have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, New York 
Times, CNN, and other major media. 

Sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program
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