The 2021 Social Forum will be convened as humanity faces the profound, unprecedented and multiple crises from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to pose a threat to the social and economic fabric of countries worldwide, in addition to the immediate health crisis.
-- Live performance on the theme of "International
cooperation and solidarity", played by the UN Music Club in Geneva (Mr.
Damianos Serefidis, violin, and Mr. Michael Wiener, piano/composition, OHCHR
staff members)
--- COVID-19 and Civil and Political Rights:
-- Moderator: Mr. Hérnan Vales, Human Rights and Democracy
Advisor, OHCHR
-- Ms. Faith Kasina, Coordinator for Kayole Social Justice
Center - The right to life, equality before the law and freedom of expression
-- Ms. Katerina Hadzi-Miceva Evans, Executive Director,
European Center for Not-for-Profit Law - COVID-19, civic space and fundamental
freedoms
-- Ms. Barbara Bernath, Secretary General, Association for
the Prevention of Torture - The rights of persons deprived of liberty and
COVID-19
-- Ms. Kasari Govender, Human Rights Commissioner of British
Columbia - Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination and Vaccine Passports
--- Interactive dialogue ---
--- COVID-19 and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
-- Moderator: Mr. Melik Özden, Director, Centre Europe-Tiers
Monde (CETIM)
-- Ms. Angela Frigo, Secretary General of the European Food
Banks Federation - The right to food in times of COVID-19
-- Ms. Soledad García Muñoz, Special Rapporteur on Economic,
Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights - Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights
-- Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, Chief Executive Officer, UN
hosted Sanitation and Water for All Partnership - Imagine COVID-19 in a world
with water and sanitation for all
-- Mr. Obi Aginam, Adjunct Research Professor of Law,
Carleton University, Canada - Intellectual Property Rights and Access to
COVID-19 Vaccines
--- Interactive dialogue ---
--- Side Events ---