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Defense Forum Foundation’s
Congressional Defense & Foreign Policy Forum
INVITATION TO ABD EL-KADER LECTURE
FROM:
Ambassador J. William Middendorf, II Suzanne Scholte
Chairman, DFF President, DFF
Introduction by
Kate Kelly
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
Abd el-Kader Lecture by:
Aminatou Haidar
Sahrawi Human Rights Defender
Award winning activist Aminatou Haidar is known as the Sahrawi Gandhi for her peaceful advocacy for self-determination and human rights in Western Sahara despite her torture and imprisonment in Morocco’s prisons. She received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for “extraordinary courage and heroic leadership” and the Civil Courage Prize for “steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk.” The Abd el-Kader Lecture is an honor given to a Muslim leader who has worked for freedom and human rights in the same spirit as Abd el-Kader. He won praise from world leaders including Queen Victoria and President Abraham Lincoln for his noble actions during the French occupation of Algeria and for his compassion and humanity while in exile, when he saved the lives of Christians. Haidar was chosen to give the Abd El-Kader lecture because her noble actions in the face of great injustice and persecution embody the same spirit as Emir Abd el-Kader.
LUNCHEON TOPIC:
“Justice for Africa’s Last Colony: The Struggle for Human Rights & Self-Determination in Western Sahara”
WHEN: MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014, 12:00 noon - 1:15 pm
WHERE: Rayburn B-339 House Office Building, Capitol Hill
RSVP REQUIRED (acceptances only): by email to rsvp@defenseforumfoundation.org
or by phone to 703-534-4313 by 6 pm, Friday, March 21st to attend this forum.
COST: No charge to Members of Congress or Congressional Staff. A $35 fee is
requested from all others to cover the lunch cost and must be received prior to event at
DFF, 3014 Castle Road, Falls Church VA, 22044.
*DFF’s Defense and Foreign Policy Forums were established in 1983 to provide
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collegial atmosphere on important issues facing the United States and her allies.
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