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Black Tie
International:
The Center for
Reproductive Rights
Photos by:
Rose Billings/Blacktiemagazine.com
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Joan Jett and Nancy Northrup President and
CEO
Center for Reproductive Rights
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The center for Reproductive Rights Celebrates More Than
20 Years of Legal Victories Defending the Human Rights of Women Worldwide
During the Organization's Second Annual Gala Held at Jazz at
Lincoln Center
Event Raised Nearly $1 Million and Honored
Helen Clark, Administrator
of the United
Nations Development Program and Former Prime Minister of
New Zealand, and The Honorable Richard
Blumenthal, United States Senator for Connecticut
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Helen Clark Honoree (ONZ SSI Former New
Zealand Prime Minister and Host Alfre Woodward |
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Katie Lee and Nancy Northrop President and
CEO
Center For Reproductive Rights |
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Pamela Buffett, Dennis and Joan Jett |
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Frank Zandi, Alfre Woodard Host and Naz Homa
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NYC -
October 29, 2013
Notable guests included: Special
guest host Emmy®
Award-winning Actress Alfre
Woodard, Joan
Jett, Katie Lee and Nanette
Lepore; Honorees Helen
Clark and Senator
Richard Blumenthal (who
accepted his award via video from Washington, DC); Members
of the organization’s Board of Directors; Event Host
Committee members, Event Co-Chairs including: Pamela
Buffett, Nonnie S. and Richard Burnes, Rebecca J. Cook and
Bernard Dickens, Barbara N. Grossman, Margaret Munzer Loeb,
Daniel Loeb, Roberta Schneiderman and Hope
and Grant Winthrop; and
Nancy Northup,
President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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On the red carpet during the
event, notable guests including Joan
Jett, Alfre
Woodard, Nanette
Lepore, and Katie
Lee signed
the Bill of Reproductive Rights
www.drawtheline.org
in
support of the Center’s Draw the Line campaign, which
launched last fall with support from prominent individuals
including Meryl Streep, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kevin Bacon, Kyra
Sedgwick, Martha Plimpton and Stanley Tucci, among others. Since
launch, the campaign has garnered
an avalanche of media attention and spurred a wave of
activism that has amassed over one quarter of a million
signatures on the Bill of Reproductive Rights.
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About the Center for Reproductive Rights
Founded in 1992, the
Center for Reproductive Rights is the only global legal
advocacy organization dedicated exclusively to
advancing and defending reproductive rights. With
expertise in both U.S. constitutional and international
human rights law, the Center fights to ensure strong legal
protections for the full range of reproductive rights, and
affordable and unhindered access to the full range of
reproductive health care.
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