Peru | Panel discussion

Panel discussion on the current human rights situation in Peru with Max Lucks (Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the German Bundestag, DIE GRÜNEN, expert on Latin America), Sara Leman (Amnesty International Bochum) and Vanessa Schaeffer Manrique (lawyer, director of Informationsstelle Peru e.V., Freiburg)

In the panel discussion, the situation of human rights activists and current developments in Peru will be discussed.
Max Lucks, member of the Bundestag from Bochum, will contribute his expertise on the transnational right-wing movement and the threat to the rights of queer people and women in Peru. Sara Leman is active with Amnesty International Bochum and also works in the Chile/Venezuela co-group of Amnesty International/Germany. She is very interested in the human rights situation in Peru, in particular the issues of racist violence by security forces and discrimination against refugees. Vanessa Schaeffer Manrique is a mining and human rights officer in the diocese of Freiburg and representative of Red Muqui (Peru) in Germany. She has more than twelve years of experience in environmental law and policy in Peru and Latin America. She worked for a long time at the NGO CooperAcción, an important institution for environmental and human rights policy in Peru. She has a degree in law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a Master’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Freiburg and is a board member of the Information Centre Peru in Freiburg, founded in 1990, the coordination team of the Peru Mining Campaign and a researcher for CooperAcción in Peru. Like all those involved in the discussion, she is well informed about current developments.

Followed by a discussion with all participants.

Welcome: Dr Irmtrud Wojak (Fritz Bauer Forum, Bochum), Moderation: Martin von Berswordt-Wallrabe

Notes:

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