AFL-CIO Headquarters (Murray Green Room)
815 16th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20006
Sep 23, 2014
2:30 PM (GMT-5)
Host:
AFL-CIO, CWA, and CEPR
The AFL-CIO, CWA, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) invite you to a conversation, featuring Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz; Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO; and Deborah James, CEPR, exploring the human rights violations behind the influx of unaccompanied minors and refugees into the United States from Central America. Ongoing human rights violations in the region, crushing poverty, and failure of some Central American governments to protect the lives of their citizens are so extreme that many see little choice but to undertake a life-threatening journey hoping for a better future. Unfortunately, flawed U.S foreign, trade, and economic policies have exacerbated dangerous conditions in these countries, breeding desperation.
