The Human Rights Cities Network
marks the 75th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
WEBINAR
“Equality and inequalities in urban context”
A great opportunity to engage in order to share on human rights practices!
On 7 December 2023, at 15:00
REGISTER HERE!
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.