Findlay, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2002 —The University of Findlay has collaborated with the Anne Frank in the World Fund of Toledo to bring human rights activist Martin O’Brien of Northern Ireland as a keynote speaker in the “Speak Truth to Power” series.

The address will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Ritz Auditorium.

As executive director of the Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ), Northern Ireland’s foremost human rights organization, O’Brien has played a key role in bringing a cessation to the conflict that has divided Northern Ireland for decades.

Founded in 1981, CAJ offers hands-on support to victims of abuse and provides human rights lawyer with support and legal resources. O’Brien has played an important role in drafting the strong human rights provisions in the Good Friday Peace Agreement, signed in 1998 by all parties, that set forth a time table and structure to end sectarianism and created a new power-sharing government in the north. O’Brien is a pacifist, yet his life has been touched by violence. In 1999, a lawyer and member of CAJ’s board was killed by a bomb left under her car.

The event is free and open to the public.