Fwd: You're Invited: Sugarcane Workers in Nicaragua & Human Rights

[Nick Wertsch]

Hey - we've got an event happening Tuesday 11/29, right after everyone is back from Thanksgiving. Anyone interested in international workers' rights issues should definitely come out, but anyone who also likes food should definitely come out because we'll have some at the reception after the presentation.

Nick

RSVP here. Hope you can join us!

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You're Invited Sugarcane Workers in Nicaragua & Human Rights   Tuesday, November 29, 2016 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Reception to Follow Mortara Center for International Studies 3600 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20057 Georgetown University    Sugarcane workers in Nicaragua have struggled for more than two decades for safer working conditions. They are fighting to receive medical treatment and compensation for a deadly kidney disease believed to be caused by their work in the sugarcane fields. Join us to hear Josephine Weinberg of La Isla Foundation discuss how a local legal services project is addressing the cycle of extreme poverty and sickness that is behind the international sugar industry and what you can do to help. A reception will follow with light refreshments. Please RSVP via Eventbrite and easily add it to your Google Calendar. This event is co-hosted by the Population Health Initiative at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.   Accommodation requests related to disability can be made by contacting  ki...@georgetown.edu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests.

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Nick Wertsch

Program Coordinator

Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor

Georgetown University

209 Maguire Hall
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Phone: (202) 687-4987  |  Cell: (314) 662-2730

Email: nm...@georgetown.edu

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