BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:South African human rights advocate Mohamed "Shafie" Ameermia a rrives in Athens on Sept. 1\, bringing with him a lifetime of expertise and experience to share with Ohio University students as a Robert and Rene Gli dden Visiting Professor.\n\n \n\nAmeermia is a legal consultant and the cur rent commissioner for social cohesion and nation building in the Republic o f South Africa and also a former commissioner on the South African Human Ri ghts Commission.\n\n \n\nIn his first public talk on Sept. 13\, Ameermia wi ll discuss “The South African Human Rights Commission: Litigation and Legis lation for Upholding Human Rights and Equality under the Law” at 7 p.m. in Bentley Hall 140.\n\n \n\nHis talk addresses the 163 billion in South Afric an Rand award he won for 250\,000 indigent farm-workers\, 80 percent of who m were women\, with many of them single mothers\, who had been exploited by an unregulated micro-lending industry. The lenders had taken advantage of the fact that there was no judicial oversight of the practice of microlendi ng and the garnishing of wages in connection with allegedly delinquent loan s.\n\n \n\nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Law\, Justice & Cult ure. DTEND:20220914T000000Z DTSTAMP:20240920T213809Z DTSTART:20220913T230000Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, 140 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Commissioner Mohamed Ameermia on the South African Human Rights Com mission\, Sept. 13 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_40570423643267 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/commissioner_mohamed_ameermia_the_south _african_human_rights_commission END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR