Human Rights Defender to Speak

Cipriana Jurado has worked in Mexico as an advocate for the labor rights of women and for economic and environmental justice for more than 20 years. She is the founder of the Center for Information and Solidarity for Working Women (CISO), and has recently undertaken investigations of human rights violations committed by Mexico's Army. Because of this work, she has received death threats and one of her colleagues was killed. Cipriana has come to Chicago seeking temporary refuge from these threats and will speak about her mission.