Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights 2012

Ahabwe Michael, Founder of ICOD ActionNetwork, Project FOCUS’s partner organization in Uganda, has been invited back to the States to participate the ninth annual Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights (NUCHR).






















This year’s NUCHR is entitled From Famine to Food Deserts: Human Rights and the Global Food Crisis. Join Project FOCUS in attending the conference, and don’t miss Ahabwe’s panel discussion, Failure of Distribution: Feeding Today, Starving Tomorrow, in which panelists will explore the failure of international systems to adequately distribute food to those that need it the most.

We look forward to seeing you at this thoughtful and inspiring event!
January 19-21, 2012
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Panel Discussion - Failure of Distribution: Feeding Today, Starving Tomorrow
Saturday, January 21, 2012
2:00 - 3:30 pm
McCormick Tribune Center

During his visit last year, Ahabwe spent four weeks with Growing Power in Milwaukee as a food security-fellow, was an honored guest speaker at the at the Jane Addams Hull House food activism series, Re-Thinking Soup. He was also interviewed on WBEZ’s Worldview for his work as a global activist.

To hear the full interview click here.