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LOCAL News :: Baltimore MD : Globalization : Labor

Tuesday, March 28th Event, 6 pm: Workers Rights in the Global Economy

Author

  • Nicole

Date Created

  • 22 Mar 2006
This event will examine workers rights around the world, as well as the economic and trade policies that devastate poor countries and fuel undocumented immigration. Local workers rights groups will also talk about their activities in Baltimore, and the proposed Workers Center.

WHEN: Tuesday, March 28th, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 pm.

WHERE: University of Baltimore-Langsdale Library Auditorium (1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201-across the street from the Law School)

TITLE: Workers Rights in the Global Economy…and the Missing Link of Immigration Reform

*Free, and open to the public
*Refreshments will be served
*For more information, contact Nicole at: nicole.zeichner-AT-ubalt.edu
*Sponsored by the University of Baltimore National Lawyers Guild


Speakers include:

Professor Marley Weiss, Labor lawyer, from the University Of Maryland School Of Law, speaking on workers' rights in the global economy

Ruben Chandrasekar from the American Friends Service Committee's Project VOICE, speaking on the root causes of migration and sharing immigrants’ stories

George Luchiri Wajackoyah, International Comparative Human Rights lawyer, speaking on the effect of the Bhopal litigation on workers’ rights

Dinesh Tripathi, International Human Rights lawyer, speaking on workers' rights in Nepal


Local Workers Rights Groups:

United Workers Association of Baltimore

CASA de Maryland (invited)
 
 
 

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