SOCIAL JUSTICE: PRINCIPLE AND OBJECTIVE OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

28 January 2021 8 am to 11 am Mexican time / 3 pm to 8 pm Brussels time

Each panel will have two rounds of speaking time : 8-10 minutes for each panellist to begin with, than time for questions from the public, than 3-5 minutes for answers from each panellist, all this within the one hour time limit for each panel. The idea is to point to the elements for an agenda of transformation in view of the convergences of discourses and social struggles in 2021 – organise key questions and systematize the answers.

Moderators : Francine Mestrum and Kamal Lahbib

There will be three panels:

First group: A new agenda for development and (re)distribution of wealth

1. 1. Armando de Negri: general introduction, social protection and health, link with development

• Riccardo Petrella: illegality of poverty, common good of humanity, water, vaccine…

• Olivier De Schutter: world poverty, proposal for a solidarity fund

Second group: Production, social protection and the possibility for economic sustainability of universal social protection through (re)distribution of wealth

1. Isabel Ortiz: financing social protection through (re)distribution of wealth
2. Ayuba Wabba : work, universal social protection and the importance of fundamental labour rights in defending social justice
3. Anita Gurumurthy: digitalisation of the labour market – transformations: emancipation or slavery?

Third group: Social Justice and Development in practice

• Raul Delgado: social justice and migration – when the right to development and social protection conflict with national and global conflicts -cosmopolitisation of rights

• Aminata Traoré: social justice and development in Africa – what space is there for development beyond neocolonialism?

Dalia Ameil: social justice and development in the Maghreb region – role of women and youth in the struggle for transformative social policies?

Here is the link to the meeting on social justice: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3HMc0_tUTJekDjoW0iB-_A
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