<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">The Hampshire College Law Program Invites you to join us in considering our collective future:</font><br><br> <br><br><font size="6">"National Security <br>within a Human Rights Framework"</font><br>
<br> <br> <br><font size="4">Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Esq.</font><br> <br><br>Founder and President<br><br>National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement<br><br> <br><br>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.<br>
<br> <br><br><font size="4">Tuesday, April 8, 2008<br><br>5 pm<br><br>West Lecture Hall<br>Franklin Patterson Hall<br>Hampshire Campus<br></font><br> <br><br> <br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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). <br>
<br>She has won numerous awards from the media, legal associations, and the U.S. Congress.<br><br> <br><br>She has been featured on<br>Democracy Now with Amy Goodman<br>Her clients have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, and other major media. <br>
<br>Sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program<br><br> <br>
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