September 30: Program on "Impunity in Colombia: One Woman's Story"
3 to 4 p.m. in the Auditorium
Yessika Hoyos Morales, human rights activist and attorney, will speak about the systemic violations of human and labor rights that plague Colombia.
As a victim of violence herself, Ms. Hoyos is co-founder of Sons and Daughters Against Impunity and for the Memory of the Fallen, an organization of children of victims of disappearance, torture, exile and murder in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and other Latin American countries. She is also the recipient of the 2008 AFL-CIO George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award.
Co-sponsored by:
Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law and the Workplace
and
Chicago Federation of Labor
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