Sarah Hager, a volunteer with Amnesty International USA who serves as chair of the Southern Africa Co-group, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10 at Sweet Briar College. The lecture will be held in Heuer Auditorium, Room 101 in Guion Science Center. Hager will speak on women’s rights abuses in South Africa as part of Amnesty’s annual observance of Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.
According to Amnesty’s Web site, as the co-group chair, Hager guides specialists monitoring human rights in 12 countries. Her experience includes crisis intervention and trauma therapy counseling services to rape survivors.
Hager, who has a law degree from Northwestern University, has traveled to Russia and Thailand to complete legal research on national and international terrorism policies and the impact of HIV/AIDS policies on women. She also worked in South Africa at the Legal Aid Board where she assisted with criminal defense and appellate cases as well as civil litigation challenging violations of constitutional rights.
For more information, please contact Corinne Adams at “adams12 @ sbc.edu” (remove quotes and spaces).
