November 10, 2009

DASH Public Policy Director, Larisa Kofman, J.D., was a featured panelist/presenter at the 2009 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing, facilitating a workshop entitled “Domestic Violence and the Gender Component to the Human Right to Housing.”

Georgetown Law Center hosted this year’s forum on Sunday, November 8 and Monday, November 9, at the Gewirz Student Center, located on the Georgetown Law Center campus at 120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C. More than a dozen leading national and local organizations presented at the forum, which was attended by advocates and practitioners from around the country. The event was sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.

A complete workshop agenda is available at the Georgetown Law Center website:
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/releases/November.8.2009.html

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