FYI if you're in the Puget Sound area.

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:51:51 -0800
From: Sandra Chait <[log in to unmask]>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@u.washington.edu;>
Subject: PoE/PoA/Environmental Health Seminar - Odigha Odigha

            THE PROGRAM on the ENVIRONMENT (PoE)
                                        and
            THE PROGRAM ON AFRICA (PoA)
                                        and
            THE DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
                            Student Advisory Committee

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Speaker: Odigha Odigha
Topic: Environmental Justice Issues in Nigeria

Date: Friday, February 23, 2001
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. (reception to follow presentation)
Location: 258 Mary Gates Hall

Odigha Odigha, Nigerian environmental and human rights activist, is
Executive
Director of NGOCE, the nongovernmental organization Coalition
on the Environment. Politically active in the pro-democracy movement
against Nigeria's military dictatorship, Odigha came to know Nigeria's
environmental struggles through his involvement with the feminist
non-profit organization, Women in Nigeria (WIN).

Under Odigha's leadership, NGOCE has motivated leadership in villages
across the state on environmental issues and has also created a resource
center in the state capital that contains up-to-date materials on
environment issues, women's economic and political empowerment,
sustainable development, solar and renewable energy, fair trade,
appropriate agricultural practices, debt cancellation and Green politics.

Odigha is being brought to Seattle in association with
UW Human Rights Awareness Week sponsored by Amnesty International

For further information, contact the Program on Africa at (206) 616-0998
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