[Hamp-law] Hampshire College Tuesday April 8: National Security within a Human Rights Framework

[Falguni A. Sheth]

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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