The London-based Peru Support Group will be holding its annual conference November 27, at Kingston University, Surrey. The theme this year is “Peru & Latin America: Signs of Change?”
Guest speaker is Lord Avebury, chairman of the organization, founder of Britain’s Parliamentary Human Rights Group and member of the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs team. The keynote speaker will be Javier Diez-Canseco, one of Peru’s best-known left-wing politicians, former congressman and senator, and long-time human rights activist.
The other speakers, through workshops, will be José de Echave, director of the mining and communities programme at Peruvian NGO CooperAcción; Jelke Boesten, lecturer at the School of Politics and International Studies (University of Leeds), who will base her workshop on her latest book, Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru, 1990-2000; Camilo Tovar, the representative of ALOP in Europe (an umbrella organization that brings together development NGOs from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean), who will discuss the impact of the EU-Andean Community (Peru/Colombia) multiparty trade agreement; and Cath Collins, Assistant Professor of Politics at the Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile), who will analyze current human rights trials in the region (Peru, Chile and Argentina).
Reservations can be made through the Peru Support Group office in London — [email protected] or Tel: 020 7263 1016.
