This panel discussion hosted by the Student Advisory Board for the Centre for Fundamental Rights is part of the two-day LATAM Conference Germany organised by the Latin American Club (LAC) of the Hertie School.
This panel discussion on 'Human Rights: Key to Latin America's Transformation' will focus on the human rights challenges as well as recent promising developments in Latin America. It will offer insights on the current situation on human rights in Latin America for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from different fields of human rights to incentivise them to take action to support the protection of human rights in the region.
The panel will focus on the following areas of human rights: Civil and political rights: Citizen security, access to justice, and anticorruption; Gender equality: Women’s rights, LGBT rights, and the feminist movement for social change; Climate justice: Indigenous peoples’ rights and the quest to protect and save the environment.
This event is taking place in the frame of the LATAM Conference Germany, organised by the Latin American Club (LAC) of the Hertie School. The conference will bring together current and future policy makers, researchers, and practitioners from the region and their partners in Germany and the European Union. It will be a place for discussion on the challenges and opportunities for partnerships that bring about development, prosperity, and inclusion.
The LATAM conference will take place at the Hertie School from May 6 to May 7, 2023.
Speakers:
Juan Pappier (Acting Deputy Director, Americas – Human Rights Watch): Juan is the Americas' acting deputy director at Human Rights Watch, where he works on several countries in the region. He has researched and written reports about armed conflict-related abuses, repression against demonstrators, and attacks on the rule of law, among other issues. He has also worked as a consultant for Chile’s National Human Rights Institute and taught international human rights law in the Torcuato di Tella and San Martín universities, in Argentina.
Juliana Cano Nieto (Chief of Communications, Transparency International): Juliana is a social justice campaigner and researcher from Colombia, and the current head of communications for Transparency International. Previously, she was Deputy Director of Campaigns for the Americas, where she led communications, activism, media, advocacy, and movement-building activities to advance human rights in the region.
Laura Aguirre (CEO and co-founder of Alharaca): Laura is the Co-founder and CEO of Alharaca, an investigative and feminist media from El Salvador. She won the Latin American Investigative Journalism Prize (COLPIN) in 2017 and the IDEA 2017 prize on journalism and innovation for a trans-media project on sexual and reproductive rights.
Moderator:
Luis Barrueto (MPP Candidate, Hertie School): Luis is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the Hertie School and member of the Centre for Fundamental Rights’ Student Advisory Board (2022 – 2023). He is also the Co-founder of Visibles, an LGBT rights organisation in Guatemala, and is currently an intern at Human Rights Watch in Berlin.
Admission to the event is free. Registration is required. Please register on the event page on Eventbrite here.
