Events - Event View
This is the "Event Detail" view, showing all available information for this event.
If registration is required or recommended, click the 'Register Now' button to start the process.
If the event has passed, click the "Event Report" button to read a report and view photos that were uploaded.
Reception For Declaration Of Human Rights Celebration
PRICE: This event is free, but registration is required.
CODE: DCV2121
In honor of the 70th Anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the WNDC welcomes the presence of Mayor Muriel Bowser as she signs a proclamation declaring the week of December 10th as Human Rights Awareness Week. Join the Mayor and the granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves, as we sign this proclamation and follow up with a brief discussion with Immediate Past President and great granddaughter, Anna Eleanor Fierst, of the connection between Women’s Rights and Human Rights.
Please stay for a celebration of the life of Arvonne Fraser, pioneering women’s rights activist, political campaigner and the US Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Arvonne Fraser, one of the nation’s foremost leaders in women’s rights, passed away on August 2, 2018, at the age of 92. She was at the forefront of the women’s movement in America, fighting against sexual discrimination and violence; discrimination in the workplace, educational institutions and the political arena. Arvonne helped found and was President of the Women’s Equity Action League.
She was director of the International Women’s Rights Action Watch, director of the Office of Women at the AID and served as Ambassador for the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 1993 to 1994. Ambassador Fraser was also a founder of the Center on Women and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of the University of Minnesota, the nation’s first teaching, research and outreach center devoted to women and public policy.
The Woman’s National Democratic Club is proud to pay tribute to the life and legacy of Arvonne Fraser.