"A representative from the Vermont Workers' Center's Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign has been selected to participate in a national delegation traveling to the United Nations in Geneva to report about the status of human rights in the United States. Mary Gerisch, who lives in Bennington, has been an active leader of the Healthcare Is A Human Right Campaign for over two years.

Next week Ms. Gerisch will travel to Switzerland to take part in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the human rights record of the United States, and will inform representatives from other countries about the struggle for the human right to healthcare in Vermont and across the United States."

Read more about Mary Gerisch's trip to Geneva and the involvement of the VWC in the UPR process.