Rachel Brett will be Swarthmore lecturer
Rachel Brett, of the Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva), to deliver 105th Swarthmore Lecture
Quaker human rights lawyer Rachel Brett has been announced as this year’s Swarthmore Lecturer. She will deliver the annual lecture of British Quakers at Friends House in London on 26 May.
The lecture will be entitled Snakes and Ladders: A personal exploration of Quaker work on Human Rights at the United Nations. A book with the same title, but longer than the lecture, will be published on the same day.
Rachel Brett will draw on more than twenty years’ experience of working for the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva.
She said: ‘If the work can prevent one more child from being forced to be a soldier, or one more mother from being separated from her baby by unnecessary imprisonment, or one more person from being imprisoned as a conscientious objector, then it is worth it.’
The event will be the one hundred and fifth Swarthmore Lecture. The first was delivered by Rufus Jones in 1908.
