Delegation Speaks on Labor Rights Violations in Central America

The International Labor Rights Forum and WOLA invite you to:

A brownbag lunch featuring seven labor leaders/experts
from different countries in the region.

The delegation is coming to testify in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, representing diverse organizations participating in the Regional Campaign against Labor Flexibility, a campaign to end the erosion of labor rights throughout Central America. Speakers will offer personal and professional testimonies on issue areas such as working women, union persecution, DR-CAFTA, labor activism in the context of the Honduran coup, labor law/policy and impunity and pending legal complaints with regards to various sectors.

Speakers

David Eduardo Soto Oliva, Public Sector Union Leader from Guatemala, Federación Nacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores del Estado de Guatemala (FENESTEG)

Danilo Flores, Coordinator of the Union Platform on Labor Justice, Fundacion de Estudios para la Aplicación de Derecho, El Salvador

Yadira Minero, Coordinator for the Women Workers’ Program  
Centro de Derechos de las Mujeres in Honduras

Miguel Ángel Ruíz Estrada, General Secretary, multi-sector union federation in Nicaragua, Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores “Jose Benito Escobar” (CST-JBE)

Alicia Vargas Obando, Secretary for Women’s Rights in public sector union, Union de Personal del Instituto Nacional de Seguros –UPINS, Costa Rica

Teresa Amelia Cisneros Guevara, Legal Counsel, Asistencia Legal Alternativa de Panama, ALAP, Panama

 Ariane Grau Crespo, Regional Campaign Coordinator, Asociación Servicio de Promocion Laboral, ASEPROLA, (based in Costa Rica)