Champion of human rights to visit

Sally Armstrong delivers “Lived Rights” lecture

Her quest to expose human rights violations and campaign for equal rights for women has taken her to many of the world’s most troubled areas and next month Sally Armstrong will speak at UVic about her extraordinary life.
Armstrong will discuss “Human Rights—Human Wrongs” on March 9 at 5:30 p.m. in Fraser 159 as part of the “Lived Rights” lecture series sponsored by the International Women’s Rights Project in UVic’s Centre for Global Studies.

A former editor of Homemakers magazine, a contributing editor to Maclean’s magazine and an Amnesty International Award winner, Armstrong is also the author of Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of Women of Afghanistan and the forthcoming The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: First Woman Settler on the Miramichi.

Armstrong’s stories and documentary films from conflict zones such at Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda have earned her many awards. She’s served as a director with the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies and the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

Armstrong’s 1997 story for Homemaker’s on the plight of Afghan women was one of the first stories to be filed from the region following the Taliban takeover. It was one of several hard-hitting stories Armstrong featured in the magazine after becoming its editor in 1988.
Her journalism career started when the former teacher and expectant mother wrote some articles on fitness for Canadian Living. Her assignments soon became more varied and topical. In 1998 she was named a member of the Order of Canada and in 2002 she was named as UNICEF’s Special Representative to Afghanistan.