October 28

This afternoon, Professor Kathryn Sikkink, of the University of Minnesota gives a talk entitled "Globalizing Justice: Do Human Rights Trials Really Work?" This is the first lecture in the Global Futures series on globalization and is in Room 5243 of the Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street, at 3:30.

This evening, the South Asia Forum hosts Mukhtara Mai, who will give a talk entitled “Rape and Honor Crimes in Pakistan”. . In the tribal areas of Pakistan, tribal councils take precedence over both Islamic and secular state laws. Mai will tell her story of being gang raped by order of the tribal councils. This is in the Red Gym on Langdon Street at 6:30. Check www.mukhtarmai.com for more information.

This weekend, Henry Vilas Zoo hosts its annual Halloween Celebration featuring children’s activities and a haunted tunnel. This is at the Zoo on Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 4 with a scarier haunted tunnel on Saturday night from 6 to 9.

Sunday night, Edgewood College’s Human Issues and Campus Ministry host Jose Alas, executive director of the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America. He will give a talk entitled “Faith, Land, and the Peasant Struggle in Central America”. This is free and open to the public in the Washburn Heritage Room of Regina Hall on the Edgewood Campus at 7. For more information, call EC Human Issues at 663-2889.