After the First Wave? Initial Conclusions on the Human Rights Impacts of Covid-19

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic and with a second wave on the horizon, join us for a discussion of the human rights impacts of COVID-19. A public health crisis that has triggered an education crisis and an economic crisis, COVID-19 – and the responses thereto of governments, supranational bodies and corporations –  are set to have long-lasting implications for both human rights standards and practice. Questions explored will include: where have human rights had traction in the pandemic context? How has COVID-19 served to reveal longer-standing shortcomings in terms of human rights standards and implementation? How have human rights bodies responded to COVID-19?

Join us on Monday 19 October, 12:00-13:00 for a webinar featuring leading human rights experts on:

After the First Wave? Initial Conclusions on the Human Rights Impacts of COVID-19 

Speakers include:

• Professor Ann Skelton, UNESCO Chair: Education Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Professor Sandra Liebenberg, H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Stellenbosch – Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham, HRLC Co-Director – Member, Council of Europe European Committee of Social Rights
• Chair: Sangeeta Shah, Associate Professor in Law, University of Nottingham

The event is free to attend and open to all, but please register here.