[hr-education-na] Women's Health & Human Rights w/ Rebecca Cook (Washington, DC, Jan 12, 2005)

Please join the Women and International Law Program and the
International Legal Studies Program at American University Washington
College of Law for:

PROMOTING WOMEN’S HEALTH THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS with DR. REBECCA COOK
Chair, International Human Rights Law,
Co-Director, International Programme on Reproductive Health Law,
University of Toronto Faculty of Law

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2005
4:00-5:30pm, Room 603
Reception to Follow
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW

The event is free and open to the public.

Registration is required. Please register online at:
www.wcl.american.edu/secle and click on Event Registration. Leave
event charge field at $0

PROMOTING WOMEN’S HEALTH THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS
Health disparities are growing among women within and among
countries. Professor Cook will explore the challenge of the fair
allocation of scarce public health care resources by focusing on
services for women and girls. She will discuss different ways of
thinking about fairness in health care reform, the role of courts in
promoting fairness, the use of affirmative action measures to address
health disparities among women and girls, and the constitutional and
human rights legal obligations of states to remedy these pressing
inequalities.

DR. REBECCA COOK BIOGRAPHY

Professor Rebecca Cook is Professor and Faculty Chair in
International Human Rights, and Co- Director of the International
Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law in the Faculty of Law
at the University of Toronto. She also holds positions in the Faculty
of Medicine and the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of
Toronto. She has published widely in the area of international human
rights, the law relating to women’s health and feminist ethics, and
is the recipient of the Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding
Contribution to Women's Health by the International Federation of
Gynecologists and Obstetricians, the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial
Human Rights Prize, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.


April Fehling
Program Coordinator
Women and International Law Program
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave



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