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Center for Latin American Studies, Fall 2022 virtual Charlas con Café – a weekly space to hear lectures from a wide variety of experts and discuss topics relevant to the Latin American region, Fridays from 1-2 p.m. (unless otherwise specified).
"Justice in Motion: Reuniting Separated Families in Central America"
with Cathleen Caron (Justice in Motion) and Eriberto Pop Cán (Guatemalan Association of Maya Lawyers and Notaries)
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
Justice in Motion is a network of migrant rights defenders, including more than 40 organizations in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. With a long experience defending migrant rights through cross-border organizing, Justice in Motion is working to reunite children and families forcibly separated at the border. In this talk, Justice in Motion Executive Director Cathleen Caron and Guatemalan rights defender Eriberto Pop Cán will discuss the gains and obstacles in reuniting children seized at the border with their parents who have been deported to Central America. We will also learn more about Justice in Motion’s Defenders Network that works to shape policy solutions addressing migrant worker exploitation from a transnational perspective.
Cathleen Caron is the Executive Director of Justice in Motion. She previously worked in Florida as a staff attorney with the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, successfully litigating class action employment cases on behalf of foreign migrant farmworkers. She has worked in Guatemala with human rights defenders and internally displaced populations, as well as in East Timor researching human trafficking.
Eriberto Pop Cán is a Maya Qeqchi legal advisor to the Guatemalan Association of Maya Lawyers and Notaries (AANMG). With a background in agronomy as well as law, he has specialized in strategic litigation in matters of land, territory, natural resources, and Indigenous peoples. He has worked in the National Registry of Persons (RENAP) in Guatemala. He currently supports separated families in the northern region of Guatemala though the Justice in Motion program since August 2018.