COVID-19: The Human Rights Dimension
COVID-19: The Human Rights Dimension
A digital convening • Thursday, 30 July
7:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time • 1:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are witnessing ever more authoritarianism - threatening civic freedoms, undermining of democratic institutions, and mass surveillance. As the world’s gaze is focused on the health and economic toll, the under-reporting of the human rights dimension is allowing abuses to gather pace.
Whilst many of these threats existed before, the pandemic has led even the most liberal countries taking unprecedented steps to prevent the transmission of the virus, increasing the power of the state at the expense of the individual.
At the next Collective Action digital convening, we explored the human rights dimension of the pandemic, sharing insights from GPC members active in the human rights field and a situational report from The Fund for Global Human Rights, a leading activist organization which believes that the people most affected by injustices are best positioned to address them.
Joining James Logan, European Office Director of The Fund for Global Human Rights and James Savage, Program Officer for the Enabling Environment for Human Rights Defenders Program were Claudia Cisneros, GPC member from Venezuela who described how philanthropists can be effective even in the harshest human rights climate. Finally GPC Member Grace Forrest from Australia shared how she puts a face to the 40 million victims of modern slavery through her photography and storytelling.
Participation in this event was by invitation only; contact your Synergos relationship manager or collaborate@synergos.org for more information.