Welcome to the webinar “Poverty, Human Rights & the SDGs: How to Address the Post-Pandemic Poverty Crisis”.
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Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the world will face a crisis of poverty that has been severely aggravated over the past 15 months. Years of work eradicating extreme poverty has been brushed away on all continents.
Responding to this crisis will be agenda item number one for the global community in the coming years. Policymakers are already referring to the response as the New Social Contract, a new global deal, “build back better” and “build forward fairer”. Whatever the rhetorical frame, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the International Human Rights system are key instruments.
This webinar will focus on the intersection between poverty, human rights and the SDGs.
How do these strong international frameworks impact people in poverty and marginalization? How does this play out in rural and urban living spaces? How does the climate and environmental crisis add to the complexity? Is this a bottom up or top down process and what is the role of social movements in coming years?
The panel will address these and other aspects of the post-pandemic challenge drawing on their rich knowledge and insights as well as their contributions to the newly published book, Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty, edited by Martha Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons.
PANEL SPEAKERS
Natalia Ángel-Cabo is a Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). Chief editor of Latin American Law Review. Professor Ángel-Cabo has been Deputy Justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court, founder and former director of the Action Program for Equality and Social Inclusion – PAIIS, and consultant in various human rights projects. In 2017 she was nominated as a candidate for Magistrate of the Colombian Constitutional Court and currently serves the Court as Associate Justice.
Sumudu Atapattu, LLM, PhD (Cambridge), Attorney-at-Law (Sri Lanka) is the Director of Research Centers and International Programs at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program.
Leilani Farha is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and Global Director of The Shift, an international movement to secure the right to housing. Leilani has helped develop global human rights standards on the right to housing, including through her reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, and informal settlements. Leilani has worked to advance the right to housing around the world, including in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden.
Hans-Otto Sano is Research Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He has worked at the Institute for more than 20 years. He joined the World Bank for 2010-2013. Earlier, Dr. Sano worked in Denmark and Sweden and conducted research in several African countries. His expertise is in human rights and development; he has written extensively on human rights indicators, human rights-based approaches, research methodology, social accountability and poverty.
Amanda Lyons, JD, is the Executive Director at the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she teaches a course on Poverty and Human Rights.
Martha F. Davis is University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is a faculty co-director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy.
Morten Kjærum, moderator, is Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was the first director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and Executive Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
