Human Rights Watch Luncheon with Consuelo Morales

Where and When:

Hispanics in Philanthropy
55 Second Street. Suite, 1500
San Francisco, CA 94105

Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Website: http://hiphrw-eventful.eventbrite.com/r/eventful

Calling all philanthropists and human rights activists in the Bay Area!

If you have an interest in human rights in Mexico and the Americas, you won't want to miss out on this opportunity to meet with Consuelo Morales, this years' Human Rights Watch Voices for Justice Honoree.

About:

Sister Consuelo Morales works in Mexico to defend victims of human rights violations and hold their abusers accountable."In a crisis where torture, disappearances, and killings have become alarmingly common, Sister Consuelo stands out in Mexico as a brave and tireless advocate of victims, and a fearless critic of the forces who commit these heinous crimes." José Miguel Vivanco, director, Americas Division After years working with indigenous communities in Veracruz and street children in Mexico City, Morales returned to her native city of Monterrey in 1992 to find a community rife with abuses but without a human rights organization. She helped found Citizens in Support of Human Rights (Ciudadanos en Apoyo de Derechos Humanos, CADHAC) to fill that void and has led it ever since. Over nearly two decades, CADHAC has addressed a wide range of serious human rights problems in Nuevo Leon, from abuse in state-run orphanages to the forced displacement of people from their lands. Nik Steinberg is the current researcher assigned to Mexico and Cuba in the Human Rights Watch Americas Division. He is currently working on a report documenting abuses by security forces in the context of Mexico's "war on drugs," while his last report focused on political repression in Cuba under Raul Castro. Steinberg's writing on Latin America has been published in the New York Review of Books and the Washington Post, among other publications. He is a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Dartmouth College. He is fluent in Spanish.

For more information, please email natalie@hiponline.org.