Join The Advocates for a CLE event: "Culturally Sensitive Legal Representation: Working with Asylum Seekers and Torture Survivors in the Immigration System" on May 23, 2012 from 3:00-5:00 p.m.

The Advocates will present on, "A Human Rights Approach to Ending Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors" at the 2012 Minnesota Office of Justice Programs Conference on Crime and Victimization. The Advocates led passage of the Safe Harbors bill in Minnesota in 2011, a bill that includes protections for commercially sexually exploited children and clarifies that sexually exploited children are crime victims, not criminals.

Interested in volunteering for The Advocates for Human Rights? The Advocates hosts one-hour orientations at our office so volunteers can learn how they can volunteer their time and talent.

Join The Advocates' Book club series for They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky on June 8, 2012 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky is a true story of three "Lost Boys of Sudan," who recall their harrowing journey out of the devastation of war and into safety. 

You are invited to the 29th annual Human Rights Awards Dinner, featuring Dean Eric Schwartz of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and 2012 Don and Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award recipient, Mike Farrell of Death Penalty Focus. Please join us on June 21.

Join us for a book reading and signing of John Bessler's new book, Cruel and Unusual: The American Death Penalty and the Founders' Eight Amendment. 

Join The Advocates' Book club series for Outcasts United on July 12, 2012 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. or July 13, 2012 from 11:30-12:30 p.m. Outcasts United is the story of a soccer team comprised of young male refugees, the remarkable woman who coaches them, and the town where they live – a once-sleepy southern hamlet that has been upended by the process of refugee resettlement. 

Join The Advocates' Book club series for Outcasts United on July 12, 2012 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. or July 13, 2012 from 11:30-12:30 p.m. Outcasts United is the story of a soccer team comprised of young male refugees, the remarkable woman who coaches them, and the town where they live – a once-sleepy southern hamlet that has been upended by the process of refugee resettlement. 

Join The Advocates' Book club series for Praying for Sheetrock on September 11, 2012 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. The award-winning book Praying for Sheetrock is the true story rural black residents living in the isolated, coastal beauty of McIntosh County,Georgia. It is the saga of how, thanks to the leadership of a black shop-steward-turned-county-commissioner named Thurnell Alston, together with Legal Services lawyers, challenged the corrupt leadership through several means, including a voting-rights case.