The Human Rights Cities Network
marks the 75th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
WEBINAR
“Equality and inequalities in urban context”
Keynote speaker:
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Olivier De Schutter,
Poverty & inequalities in urban context, the universality of human rights
Panelists:
- The role of a mayor in promoting human rights at local level, Mr Ricardo Rio, Mayor of the City of Braga/Portugal and President of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM)
- LGBTIQ rights in the city of Cologne, Mr Andreas Wolter, Deputy Mayor of the City of Cologne/Germany
- How LGBTIQ rights contribute to city to city cooperation, Mr Sebastian Bartsch, Chair of Cologne Human Rights City Initiative/Germany
- The challenge to put human rights into practice, Mrs Joana Ivarsson Vitório, Strategist Social Sustainability and Human Rights, City Council of Lund/Sweden
- Monitoring human rights to improve equality in cities, Mrs Margarita Spasova, Acting Director of the Human Rights Cities Network (HRCN)
Moderator:
- Frédérique Hanotier, senior expert in human rights and governance.
Learn more about some of our speakers:
Mr Sebastian Bartsch – How LGBTIQ rights contribute to city to city cooperation,
Founder and chair of the Cologne Human Rights City Initiative (2020); many years of experience in voluntary human rights and political engagement at local level; in my professional capacity working as a freelance consultant in international development cooperation, focusing on governance and human rights; previous employment, inter alia, with the OECD and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); PhD from Freie Universität Berlin.
Joana Ivarsson Vitório – The challenge to put human rights into practice
Joana Ivarsson Vitório works as a strategist for social sustainability and human rights at the city council office in the city of Lund since April 2023. Joana has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in human rights. She has more than ten years of experience working within the area of human rights and social sustainability with a special focus on children’s rights. Joana’s previous work experience comes from working with the civil society and different state actors.