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Building Back Fairer: Equality in a Post-COVID World

Secretariat of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB)

Virtual side event to the 2021 HLPF organized by the UN Inequalities Task Team

Join a panel of experts in a virtual event to discuss what entrenched inequalities cost us and how the COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated them. Experts will examine the threats posed to our societies, economies and our human rights by the current situation and discuss how this could be a critical inflection point for creating more equal, inclusive and sustainable economies and societies.

Speakers:

  • Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy, Oxfam International
  • Isabel Ortiz, Director, Global Social Justice Program at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

Moderator:

  • Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights

Event Links:

REGISTRATION

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dZ3NtXRISluZGR8F4e38DQ

LIVESTREAM

https://www.facebook.com/UNDESASocial/

CONCEPT NOTE

https://unsceb.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/Concept_note_ITT_Inequalities_Event_1.pdf