GI-ESCR and Nazdeek, highlight the intertwining crises of COVID-19, inequality and climate change

‘The COVID-19 pandemic and associated health and economic crises have revealed the fault lines in our economic and political systems, which are producing intertwining crises of inequality, climate change and environmental destruction’, write Lucy McKernan of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Amani Ponnaganti of Nazdeek in an article published in the Indian digital and print publication ‘Down To Earth’.

Lucy and Amani highlight that both the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis expose and exacerbate existing inequalities of caste, race, gender and socio-economic situation.

The way forward they argue is to find transformative alternatives that centre human rights and dignity and that value and protect nature: ‘We can start by: recognising health, water, food, housing, social protection and education as rights, not commodities; investing in inequality-busting public services; tackling systemic discrimination and taking ambitious rights-respecting climate action.’

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