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WEBINAR - “Healthy Food in Health Care - How Hospitals as Anchor Institutions Can Help Advance Regional Food Systems.”

Wealth Creation and Rural Livelihoods (WCRL), a US-based learning network of practitioners, researchers and policymakers focused on creating and sustaining rural wealth, is offering a webinar titled “Healthy Food in Health Care - How Hospitals as Anchor Institutions Can Help Advance Regional Food Systems.”  Several presenters will share a variety of perspectives on the intersection between regional food systems and health care. This promises to be an informative webinar addressing two issues that have generated discussion within the WCRL community. The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 1 – 2:30 pm ET.  


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Site:  http://ruralwealth.org/page/webinars-1

Making Rights Real: The Implementation of International Human Rights In Canada

December 10th is Human Rights Day

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre of the University of Ottawa and Canada Without Poverty invite you to the interactive webinar Making Rights Real:  The Implementation of International Human Rights In Canada
 
This webinar will address the following questions and more on the implementation of human rights in Canada:
 
Did you know that Canada has committed itself to ensuring that everyone has a right to an adequate standard of living? How would you go about claiming this right in Canada?  What does this right mean in times of fiscal restraint?  Does it mean different things for different groups of people?

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December 10, 2012
12:00-13:00 EST

No registration is required, free and open to the public

Moderator:
Leilani Farha, Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty and economic and social rights expert

Expert Panelists:
Bruce Porter, Social Rights Advocacy Centre (Ontario)
Steve Estey, Council of Canadian’s with Disabilities, Chair of the International Committee (Nova Scotia)
 
 
 

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