2011 Social Forum

Statements and Presentations

Day 1: The promotion and effective realization of the right to development, in the context of the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development

 

Opening of the Social Forum

• Opening remarks by H.E. Mr. Minelik Alemu Getahun, Chairperson-Rapporteur
• Remarks by Ms. Marcia V.J. Kran, Director, Research and Right to Development Division (RRDD), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Remarks by H.E, Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre, President of the Human Rights Council

Development challenges and futures

• Mr. Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International- Climate Justice and the Right to Development
• Mr. Antonio Tujan Jr., Co-Chair, BetterAid (platform of CSOs for the Busan High Level Forum IV on aid effectiveness) - The right to development - promoting the struggle for human dignity and development
• Ms. Karin Arts, Professor of International Law and Development, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague - Realizing the Right to Development: The Role of International Law
  

Statements made during the interactive debate

• Associazione Comunita Papa Giovanni XXIII
• Global Network for the Right to Development
• Indonesia
• Maldives
• Nord-Sud XXI
• Qatar

Declaration on the Right to Development at 25

• Mr. Craig Mokhiber, Chief, Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch (DESIB), RRDD, OHCHR - Declaration on the Right to Development at 25
• Mr. Kishore Singh, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education - Promoting right to development through right to education
• Statement of Ms. Magdalena Sepulveda, Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
• Ms. Virginia Dandan, Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity - The challenge of international solidarity and the right to development
  

Statements made during the interactive debate

• Cuba
• Nord-Sud XXI
• Qatar
• UNDP
  
  

Day 2: Measures and actions needed to make the right to development a reality for everyone at the local, national, regional and international levels, including the role and contribution of civil society and non-governmental organizations
 

Legal and social action strategies and right to development

• Mr. Wilson Kipsang Kipkazi, Program Coordinator, Endorois Welfare Council - The Endorois Struggle for Recognition and Development (PPT)
• Mr. Paul Kipyegen Chepsoi, Board Member, Endorois Welfare Council - Realization of social justice, human rights and access to basic education

• Ms. Lucy Claridge, Head of Law, Minorities Rights Group International (MRGI) - Litigating the right to development
• Mr. Miloon Kothari, Director, Housing and Land Rights Network (HRLN) South Asia and former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing - Land eviction and right to development
• Mr. Bret Thiele, Co-Executive Director, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Strategic ESC Rights Legal Advocacy: A Complement to Social Activism and A Means to Make the Rights-Based Approach to Development a Reality

Statements made during the interactive debate

• AK Dube
• ALRC Social Forum Interactive Dialogue
• Morocco
• Uruguay

Social Justice and right to development

• Ms. Fareda Banda, Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), - “What have you done for me lately?” Women and the UN Declaration on the Right to Development
• Mr. A.K. Dube, CEO, Secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disabilities, - Disability and the Right to Development: Moving Policy to Practice at International, Regional and National Levels
• Mr. Hector Alejandro Aparicio, Honduras, International movement ATD Fourth World, - Young people in search of human rights restored

Statements made during the interactive debate

• Mexico

Innovative approaches to participation and accountability in development

• Ms. Iara Pietricovsky Oliviera, Co-Director, Institute for Social & Economic Studies, Brazil, Public Budgets and Human Rights -A Brazilian experience of enhancing social participation in public policy-making
• Ms. Zoe Young, Independent Filmmaker and participatory video consultant–Development in Movement – Using Video Letters and Participatory Media in Development 
• Mr. Jimmy Kereseka, Community activist – Participatory video in practice – Solomon Islands
• Mr. David Gunn, Incidental and Mr. Lyno Vuth, Director, Sa Sa Art Projects - Culture and development, Neak Ta project, Cambodia (PPT)

Day 3: International assistance and cooperation, as well as the promotion of an enabling environment for the realization of the right to development


International institutional framework: an enabling environment for right to development?

• Ms. Zeljka Kozul Wright, Chief, LDC Section, Research and Policy Analysis Branch, UNCTAD - Introducing the New International Development Architecture (NIDA)
• Mr. Paul Quintos, IBON Foundation, Philippines, - Rio+ 20 and development challenges
• Mr. Shabalala Dalindyebo, Senior Lecturer, University of Maastricht - Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intellectual Property
• Mr. Fried Didden, Kosovo Health Foundation –Voicing the end user

Statements made during the interactive debate

• Global Network for the Right to Development
• Venezuela

Financing for development

• Mr. Aldo Caliari, Director, Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center of Concern - Regulating finance as if human rights really mattered
• Ms. Andrea Shemberg, Legal Consultant - Principles for responsible contracts, Integrating human rights risks into investment contract negotiations
• Mr. Roberto Bissio, Coordinator, International Secretariat of Social Watch, Uruguay – The Future of the multilateral aid system and debt relief
• Ms. Gabrielle Marceau, Counsellor, Division of Legal Affairs, WTO – The WTO and the Right to Development
• Ms. Jane Nalunga, SEATINI, Uganda - Understanding the implications of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements on the right to development and social welfare in Uganda
• Mr. Tenu Avafia, Policy specialist on intellectual property, innovation and trade, UNDP HIV/AIDS Group, NY- The role of intellectual property in facilitating or impeding access to pharmaceutical products

Statements made during the interactive debate

• Cuba
• Qatar
• Egypt on behalf of NAM

Conclusions and recommendations

• Mr. Felix Kirchmeier, Senior Program Officer (Human Rights and Development), Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung - 25th anniversary and the contribution of Social Forum

Closing Remarks of the Chairperson-Rapporteur

Right to Development

Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity

Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights

Independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order

Consultation on the draft of the guiding principles: "Extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor"

Human rights dimension of poverty

 

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