Joshua Rubenstein To Speak On Human Rights

(Worcester, MA – April 9, 2007) Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will give a free public lecture at 1:30 p.m., on Monday, April 9 in the Student Center Blue Lounge.

The talk, sponsored by the Worcester State College Center for the Study of Human Rights’ 25^th Anniversary Program Series, is titled “Meeting the Global Human Rights Challenge: Amnesty International Past and Future.” Following the talk students will launch an Amnesty International Chapter on campus.

Rubenstein, who has been involved with human rights and international affairs for more than twenty-five years, is the author of Soviet Dissidents, Their Struggle for Human Rights, Tangled Loyalties: the Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, and The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov. He is also the co-editor of Stalin's Secret Pogrom: the Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In 1982, Worcester State College awarded him an honorary doctorate.

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