Book Signing - Judith Armatta - Events

Sep 11, 2010 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm UTC-07
Location: Aquarius Books & Gifts
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Sat. Sept. 11th ~ Book Reading and Signing ~ 3:30 -5:30Twilight of Impunity: the War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic,Judith Armatta is a lawyer, journalist, and human-rights advocate who monitored the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on behalf of the Coalition for International Justice. Her dispatches from The Hague appeared in national and international newspapers. Joining efforts to promote the rule of law, Armatta worked for the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative, opening offices in Belgrade, Serbia (in 1997) and Montenegro (in 1999). In this role she collaborated with women lawyers in the former Yugoslavia and supported the work of an independent judiciary. During the Kosova War, she headed a War Crimes Documentation Project among Kosovar Albanian refugees in Macedonia. Finally, Armatta assisted the Justice Ministry of Montenegro on sweeping law reform.For over two decades, she has worked to increase awareness of and response to violence against women and children—in her home state of Oregon, as well as at the national and international level. Celebrated for her efforts in Oregon, she moved into International Law and Justice in the late 1990's.Armatta currently consults on international humanitarian, human rights, and other rule-of-law issues, most recently in the Middle East.Armatta’s book, Twilight of Impunity: the War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic, will be released in August 2010 by Duke University Press. An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.More info: www.juditharmatta.com

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