GPIA Profesor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is scheduled to be part of a panel that will present at the United Nations on this Tuesday, Feb. 4th. According to panel organizers, “this event will reflect on the causes, costs and consequences of rising economic, social, and environmental inequalities, and consider concrete ways in which the SDGs can contribute to the dismantling of discrimination and help address inequalities – including gender inequalities and inequities in global governance.”
The panel discussion is entitled “Addressing inequalities in the SDGs: A human rights imperative for effective poverty eradication.” In addition to Fukuda-Parr, panelists include: H.E. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; H.E. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations; Ms. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The event is sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Finland and Brazil and organised by OHCHR in partnership with UNICEF and UN Women.
It is great to see Dr. Sakiko on a panel with the other distinguished panelists, discussing and debating this timely and urgent topic.
I personally benefited greatly from my studies of food security and development under Dr. Sakiko, and can only hope that ears and minds will be open on Tuesday Feb. 4 at the United Nations to hear her discourse and ideas, and those of the other distinguished panelists as well.
It is a tribute to the New School as well that one of its own is part of such a distinguished panel discussing such a critical subject in the context of global economic and social development and equities.