UMUC Academic Speaker Series — Mary Robinson

"Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"

Join UMUC faculty, students, staff, and friends to hear Mary Robinson, the first woman president of Ireland, founder of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, and lifelong human rights advocate, discuss Human Rights and Ethical Globalization.

KEYNOTE LECTURE, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Inn and Conference Center, Auditorium

Reception to follow in the Ballroom.

RSVP ONLINE, or call 301-985-7937.
Admission is FREE. Register early, seating is limited.

Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and formerly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate and is a world leader who puts her humanity very much at the forefront of her politics.  She now chairs the Council of Women World Leaders and is President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative.  She has been named a "Hero and Icon" as one of Time Magazine's 2005 top 100 men and women whose "power, talent or moral example is transforming the world."