Dir. of Asian Amnesty Int’l Speaks on Human Rights

World-renowned international human rights lawyer and activist Saman Zia-Zarifi ’90, the new Director of the Asia Division of Amnesty International, spoke to students and faculty yesterday at Myron Taylor Hall in a speech entitled, “Counter Terror with Justice: The Dispatches of Terror and the Axis of Evil.”

“[Zia-Zarifi] is such an important person in our community, and is such an amazing role model for students wanting to do international human rights work,” Larry Bush, executive director of the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies said. “He’s at the pinnacle of human rights advocacy and activities in the whole world.”