Building back fairer: Equality in a post-COVID world

This side event of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will focus on the issue of inequalities as key barriers to sustainable development and the ways that they have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Full details ▼

Event type: Conferences, meetings, symposiums

Start date: 08 July 2021 | Start time: 17:15 UTC +00:00

End date: 08 July 2021 | End time: 18:45 UTC +00:00

Location: Online

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This side event of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is organized by the UN Inequalities Task Team (co-chaired by UN Women and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).

The event will focus on the issue of inequalities as key barriers to sustainable development and the ways that they have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and further highlight concrete strategies to address inequalities, including through equitable, sustainable, human rights-based, and feminist policies.

Speakers:

Ms. Winne Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAIDS
Ms. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Mr. Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam International
Ms. Isabel Ortiz, Director of Global Social Justice Program, Columbia University

This session will be moderated by Mr. Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights.