As society grapples with an unprecedented pandemic, the most vulnerable workers and communities bear the brunt of its immediate and long-term devastating effects, even as they provide essential services to our societies. But can the pandemic also present opportunities to address market failures and position workers’ rights as central to a more sustainable, just, and resilient economy? Join us for a talk with Anita Ramasastry (UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights), Alison Kiehl Friedman (ICAR), Kim Cordova (UFCW), and Janhavi Dave (Homenet South Asia); moderated by Aminta Ossom (Harvard) and grounded in the experiences of workers in the food and agricultural sector, and in the informal economy.

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The series is organized by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Duke Law’s International Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and Just Security.

EVENT SERIES CO-SPONSORS 

  • Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law
  • Center for International Human Rights Law and Advocacy, University of Wyoming College of Law
  • Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern’s Bluhm Legal Clinic
  • Cornell International Human Rights Clinic: Litigation and Advocacy
  • Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
  • Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute
  • Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
  • Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School
  • Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program of Harvard Law School
  • Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
  • International Commission of Jurists
  • International Human Rights Clinic, University of Chicago Law School
  • International Human Rights Law Clinic, UC Berkeley
  • Open Society Justice Initiative
  • Opinio Juris
  • Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern Law School
  • Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA
  • Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
  • Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah