Join the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) for a wine and hors d'œuvre reception.

Program will include an update and celebration of the advances in the protection of women refugees in the United States, and a sobering report on conditions in Haiti, with a focus on gender-based violence and the situation facing women and children in the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Speakers and event highlights include:

• Karen Musalo, CGRS Director
• Simona Alessandra Agnolucci, Associate, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin (co-counsel in the L.R. case and CGRS awardee)
• Jayne Fleming, Pro Bono Counsel, Reed Smith, CGRS Executive Board member
• Lisa Frydman, CGRS Managing Attorney
• Special recognition to CGRS friends Pamela Levin; the Hon. Harry Low; and Kim Arnone, Senior Counsel, and Suhi Koizumi, Special Counsel, at Buchalter Nemer.

Limited Space.  RSVP to cgrs@uchastings.edu