The Center for Economic and Social Rights, ESCR-Net, and the Center of Concern are co-hosting an NGO side event at the 12th session of the Human Rights Council.
Panelists include:
Magdalena Sepulveda, UN Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Aldo Caliari, Director of Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center of Concern
Chair: Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights
The key objectives of thispublic meeting will be to reflect on the global economic and financial crisisfrom a human rights perspective and to advocate a human rights based response. The meeting will examine the extent to whichcommitments to a human rights approach made at the Human Rights Council???sSpecial Session in February 2009 and the UN General Assembly meeting in June2009 have remained rhetorical or have been translated into concrete andpractical policies and actions. The goalwill also be to generate debate on the best concrete proposals for how humanrights can contribute to defining national and global policy responses to thecrisis, and how the Human Rights Council, its special procedures, andnon-governmental human rights organizations, as well as States, can play a rolein this work. The meeting title isdeliberately provocative in order to encourage debate from a wide variety ofdifferent perspectives.
The event will take place 17 September 2009, from 1pm-3pm in room XXII in Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
For further information: sstanton@cesr.org