Fausto Padilla is a human rights lawyer who serves as a human rights adviser for the Centro Cultural Afroecuatoriano and the Centro de Desarrollo y Equidad Racial en Ecuador. He will speak on "Human Rights and Civil Conflict in Africa: Perspectives of a UN Human Rights Officer" at UNL City Campus Student Union on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. The lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Law and UNL's Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative in commemoration of Black History Month. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Professor Brian Lepard at blepard1@unl.edu. To see more information about the HRHD Initiative go to humanrights.unl.edu.