CAFTA is expected to have negative impacts on vulnerable populations'
economic, social and cultural rights. Bishop Alvero Ramazzini from
Guatemala will be speaking about these issues on October 21, Friday.

Beth

Beth E. Rivin, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Associate Professor
Program Director,
Global Health and Justice Project
School of Law
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
Phone: 206-616-3674
Fax: 206-543-5671
www.law.washington.edu/HealthLaw/GHJ


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After CAFTA: The Shifting Terrain of Human Rights in Guatemala
A lecture given by Bishop Alvero Ramazzini
Friday October 21, 2005, 3pm - UW Seattle, Smith Hall, Room 120.

Bishop Ramazzini, one of the most prominent actors in human rights and
social justice in Guatemala and throughout Latin America, will be at the
University of Washington to discuss the implications and projected
effects of the passage of CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade
Agreement) and other forces of globalization on human rights climate in
Guatemala.

Bishop Ramazzini has long been involved with the human rights
movement in
his country. Along with other bishops, he played a pivotal role in the
1996 Peace Accords that ended the country's 36 year long civil war, and
he remains active with the promotion of the Recovery of Historical
Memory
Project in San Marcos (REMHI). In recognition of his unflagging
leadership in human rights, Bishop Ramazzini was awarded the
prestigious
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in 2002 by the Institute of
Policy Studies in Washington DC.

He is also the immediate past President of the Bishops' Secretariat
of Central America, and the current president of SICSAL, the
International Christian Secretariat for Solidarity with Latin
America, a network organized in support of the vision of Christianity
known as Church of the Poor, the theology of liberation, or the
Medellin "preferential option for the poor".


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