Event on Reducing Inequalities and Implementing Human Rights

A view of the informal special event, "Reducing inequalities – implementing Human Rights".

The event aims at putting equality and human rights at the centre of the agenda addressing the global water crisis. Main contributors will be Indigenous Peoples as knowledge holders, peasant communities, people living in informal human settlements in the periphery of large cities, and people facing discrimination by descent, race, gender or age and those who are most impoverished and marginalized, with emphasis on the perspectives that women and youth offer. Through their actions to promote or protect human rights in a peaceful manner, they are in effect, human rights defenders. They will present and explore the problems that break down or put at risk their and their communities' human rights. By showcasing concrete examples highlighting the current state-of-affairs and gaps relating to the human rights, discussions will focus on the solutions that human rights defenders and stakeholders propose, have put in practice, and can be considered for replication.