Human Rights Lawyer to speak Mon. @ 7pm!

[UO Students for Global Health]

The Honors College in partnership with Students for Global Health & University Housing would like to present:

Health Care as a Universal Human Right: A Conversation with Brian

Concannon, Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti Monday, November 2, 7:00 - 8:30pm Living Learning Center Performance Hall (101)

Brian Concannon co-manages the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Haiti, which spearheaded prosecution of human rights cases, most notably the Raboteau Massacre case, one of the hemisphere’s most significant human rights prosecutions. Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (PIH), Professor at Harvard Medical School, and the subject of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, works with Brian, and serves on the Board of Directors for IJDH. The mission of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti is “to work with the people of Haiti in their non-violent struggle for the return and consolidation of constitutional democracy, justice and human rights, by distributing objective and accurate information on human rights conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal cases, and cooperating with human rights and solidarity groups in Haiti and abroad. IJDH draws on its founders' internationally-acclaimed success accompanying Haiti's poor majority in the fields of law, medicine and social justice activism. We seek the restoration of the rule of law and democracy in the short term, and work for the long-term sustainable change necessary to avert Haiti's next crisis.” –Brian Concannon

Please visit the IJDH website for further information: http://www.ijdh.org/

I hope to see you all there!

Michelle Leis

Co-Director, Students for Global Health

uoglobalhealth.org

mich...@uoglobalhealth.org

(480) 619 1333