Coc has been the spokesperson for the Maya Leaders Alliance in Belize and is a co-founder of the Julian Cho Society, which advocates for Maya land rights. Coc was instrumental in land rights case pursued by the Maya people and argued before the Supreme Court of Belize several years ago. This summer, Coc was in Geneva to speak to the United Nations in regard to charges of human rights violations against the government of Belize.
The program is brought to the Twin Cities by BRIDGES, a newly formed nonprofit organization focused on a culture and education exchange with indigenous Mayan villages in Belize, Central America.
Title:
Mayan Indigenous Rights in Belize
When/Where:
October 30, 2012
11:20:00 AM - 12:20:00 PM
Room 105
Hamline University School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
Speaker:
Cristina Coc is the director and co-founder of the Julian Cho Society. She has been an activist for Maya Land Rights and forest conservation since 2003. She has worked directly over the last four years with the Maya villages of Toledo in southern Belize to mobilize for the campaign to secure indigenous land rights. As a Q'eqchi Maya woman, she has an intimate knowledge of the issues related to land use and social struggles of the Maya. Over the years she has built tremendous credibility through her community organizing, advocacy and leadership of the Land Rights Lawsuit before the Supreme Court of Belize for Conejo and Santa Cruz villages. She was elected by the traditional leaders, the Alcaldes of Toledo, to be part of the implementation team in this effort, with a mandate to represent the Maya through on-going negotiations with the Government of Belize. She is also presently co-spokesperson for the Maya Leaders Alliance.
Credit:
The event has been approved for one standard CLE credit.
Contact:
Professor Ann Tweedy, atweedy01@hamline.edu
By:
- Public Law Community
- BRIDGES
More:
http://law.hamline.edu/Eventsdetail.aspx?id=4294980180
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