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THE 13th annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture

February 25, 2011

TORONTO, ON – Tere­sa Ulloa Ziáur­riz will be speak­ing at The Ignati­eff The­atre, 15 Devon­shire Place, on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2011. Ziáur­riz will be dis­cussing the future of pros­ti­tu­tion in Cana­da. She is an inspi­ra­tional lawyer and activist from Mex­i­co City who has worked for decades against all forms of vio­lence against women nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly, more recent­ly with a focus on pros­ti­tu­tion. The event is being pre­sent­ed by the Cen­tre for Women’s Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion, OISE/UT with sup­port from the Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment Research Cen­tre.

EVENT DETAILS

WHAT: Pub­lic Lec­ture – Pros­ti­tu­tion: Abo­li­tion? Reg­u­la­tion? Decrim­i­nal­iza­tion?

WHO: Tere­sa Ulloa Ziáur­riz

WHERE: The Ignati­eff The­ater, 15 Devon­shire. Recep­tion to fol­low at the OISE library, 252 Bloor St. West.

WHEN: Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 28 at 7 p.m.

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Jan­ice Spencer
Senior Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Offi­cer
Ontario Insti­tute for Stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion
Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
416–978-1127
janice.spencer@utoronto.ca