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Show THE FORUM - DECEMBER 4, 7 2013 ! Ul Attending the celebration Focus of the event Human Rights Day Celebration 2013 will focus on domestic issues in Utah, most notably womens issues. The ODHR partnered with the Utah Refugee Coalition and Backyard Broadcasting to host a dialogue on domestic said. Its male policemen, male elected officials making the laws. Theyve got friends. Theyve got protectors. Panagia said women of oppressed populations face more than discrimination against their gender. This extends sex trafficking. The office will also screen to all oppressed populations. two films: one on domestic violence and Im not saying that a white woman the other on rape in the military. The diis not discriminated, Panagia said. The alogue and screenings are free and open intersectionality of race, ethnicity adds an additional element that multiplies to the public. Sex trafficking in SLC has been the effect of discrimination. Such women are at an even greater around since the 1870s. According to alJefFNichols, history professor, it was disadvantage than many realize. Not ways illegal, but up until around 1940, it only do those women face discriminawas more or less accepted. tion from two sources, but the legal sysCity authorities would generally tem offers them little protection. They have to show that their expesay we cant get rid of it anyway, we maybe dont want to get rid of it and we rience is different from black men and white women, Panagia said. That form can profit from it through fines, Nichols said. It was so regularized youd see of claim is not part of the law. The legal system regards the female that list of fines on the exact same day of the month. gender as it would any other characteristic. In other words, it treats women as Panagia worked on sex trafficking issues as an intern at the district attorneys men who are suffering from discriminaoffice. He witnessed special treatment tion against their womanhood. When women, especially women for the Johns, the consumers of what of color, are discriminated against, they he called a sex slave trade. It is a known fact when you work have to base their claim either on disat the district attorneys office that the crimination of gender or discrimination reason why Johns are not prosecuted is of race, Panagia said. They can never to protect a certain particular people, prevail that way. Human Rights Day Celebration Panagia said. Nichols said the police did not want 2013 will help support education and to embarrass the men, but today they informing refugees about their rights. You can make a contribution tomake it a point to go after the Johns. Still, women are nearly always the ones wards really changing someones life, Francisco-Ne- z said. By coming to this arrested. Im assuming that there were higher-statu- s, event for a small donation, the money higher-moncustomers who are is going towards workshops that really being allowed to slip out the back door empower individuals to make a good life when those arrests happen, Nichols here in the city. ey the Griffins for the Greater Good club show off their shirtsfor the Better npaign. Westminster's approach to human rights $7 The Griffins for the Greater Good cam- club has taken up the nation-wid- e paign, Better Together. The Better Together campaign was initially started by Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC). It serves as a program to help students develop leadership skills and understand different faiths. The fanatics give spirituality a bad name, said Jan Saeed, director of Spiritual Life. Patel is trying to help people that you can have faith and believe in something and not be a fanatic. The movement has been gathering speed among college students. Brigham Yrmno' UniversityJ and Utah Valiev Uni- q versity have joined the campaign as well. The founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, Eboo Patel, noticed that through- out history, change has been created by people, said Lauren Waters, president of the Greater Good Club in an Thats why the Better Together campaign focuses on college campuses. The IFYC selects students to be a part ail. of their organization every year. Karla Mendez, vice president of the Greater Good club and an intern at Spiritual Life, was one of those students. We help other students learn about interfaith and learn more about themselves and each other, Mendez said. We try to create a safe space for students to ask questions without being judged and for them to express who they are. Waters and Mendez, along with other members of the club, attended a confer-realience in Atlanta to learn more about the Better Together campaign and the IFYC. The Better Together campaign has three core elements: voice, engage and ze We try to create a safe space for students to ask questions without being judged and for them to express who they are. FA Karla Mendez1' act. Better together encourages us to voice our religious or nonreligious values, engage with others of different faiths, and to act in service to the world, Wa-youters said in an These core elements are incorporated on campus by the Greater Good club in events such as the Faith Fair, Festivus, The Drop, Coexist Cafe and Interfaith ng ail, Shabat. Students can get involved in the Better Together campaign by contacting members of the Griffins for the Greater Good club, including Waters (law0922 westminstercollege.edu) and Mendez Where:University of Utah College of Social Work When: Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. Cost: $8 for students Purchase tickets online at humanrightsday2013. eventbrite.com or at the door. Get involved through internships The mayors office offers internships to students. The office is currendy accepting applications for spring 2014 and will hold interviews on Dec. 10 and 11. Summer interns can also apply now Interns can until be placed within the mayors office or a department in the mid-Apr- il. city. Applications can be found online at slcgov.cominterns. Kaye Mickelson, internship coordinator at the mayors office, can be contacted at kaye.mickelsonslcgov.com. Other human rights events Dec. 11 Film showing with a discussion panel at the Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library. Week of Dec. 16 Community dialogue on domestic human trafficking. Throughout December An art exhibit open to the public featuring messages written by refugee women in Salt Lake City. The exhibit will be displayed on the first floor of the City and County Building located on 451 S. State Street. The Downtown Salt Lake City Public Library will have a display of domestic and international human rights books. For all events, check slcgov. (kmm0728westminstercollege.edu). comodhr for updates and Students can learn more about IFYC more information. at ifyc.org. |