Human Rights in West Africa: Global Principles, Local Realities
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Join us on Monday, 11/18, at 5 p.m. in The Globe Auditorium to hear from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who will explore the tensions and overlap between the universalistic claims of human rights advocates, and the more locally grounded cultural perspectives of African communities.
This event is free and open to the public and is presented by the FSU Department of Religion, FSU College of Communication & Information’s John H. Phipps Fund, The Mande Studies Association & The Center for Global Engagement’s Engage Your World Intercultural Dialogue Series.
Topics include efforts to end sexual violence against girls in central Nigeria, citizens’ rights in Burkina Faso, the lives of African sex workers in Spain, and LGBTQ+ rights in Côte d’Ivoire.
Speakers will examine how diverse populations with different approaches to human rights can work together to secure brighter futures for marginalized populations while respecting Africans’ own strategies for liberation.
Speakers:
Abidemi Fasanmi
Satcher Health Policy Fellow Leadership and GaLEND Fellow
Morehouse School of Medicine, Morehouse College
Sten Hagberg
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Zoë Walker
Master’s Student
Department of Religion, Florida State University
Joseph Hellweg, Moderator
Associate Professor of Religion
Florida State University
Join us for a reception at 4:30 p.m. The panel will begin at 5 p.m.
This event is a part of International Education Month at FSU. For a full list of events, visit cge.fsu.edu/iem.