Speaker to focus on the status of women’s rights in the Arab world

Adrien Wing will discuss the status of women’s rights in the Arab world for the Windsor Yearbook Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday.

While there is variation between regions, overall Arab women remain near the bottom globally on a variety of indicators, says Adrien Wing.

She will discuss civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights in her free public lecture, “The Arab Season: The Future of Women’s Rights,” Friday, February 10, at 1 p.m. in the law building’s Moot Court.

The Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Law, Wing will focus on the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

“Women played visible roles in certain instances and the uprisings are a potentially positive step to break away from decades of undemocratic rule,” she says.

Wing is author of more than 100 publications, and the editor of Critical Race Feminism: A Reader and Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader. She advised the founding fathers and mothers of three constitutions: South Africa, Palestine, and Rwanda.

Friday’s event is sponsored by the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice as part of its distinguished lecture series.