On April 16, GI-ESCR will participate in the Night of Global Social Rights, a 24-hour international conversation organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, dix-milliards-humains, and Civic City association, within the framework of the « The week of all possibilities » that will be held in Geneva, Switzerland and worldwide on the social media between the 12th and 17th april 2021.

Conceived as a collective dialogue, the event aims at building bridges amongst different actors as well as a collective understanding of what Global Social Rights are and how to use them in an appropriate manner as instruments for political agency. Throughout the night, you will be able to follow interviews of and share conversions with social leaders, trade unionists, members of associations and political organizations from the global south and the « peripheries » of post-industrial societies.

Meet Magdalena Sepúlveda

Meet our Executive Director Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona during her intervention on Social Rights and the global dimension of their assertion and defense

when?

Friday 16 April

12:00am CST | 06:00pm CEST

WHERE?

The event will be live on Facebook

What are Global Social Rights and how to use them adequately as instruments for political agency?

The most part of discussions around Human Rights in general and Social Rights in particular have always been traversed by an ethnocentric point of view that, by enunciating a list of universal rights and making it vertically enforceable, leave out and dismiss the innumerable manifestations of cultural diversity, and the plurality of struggles and demands that exist beyond the Euro-Atlantic world.

It is in this sense that, from a Global perspective, the contemporary struggles for Social Rights need to acknowdledge the different ways of defining and appropriating them and to overcome the barrier of their ethnocentric understanding, by privileging the construction of a discourse that recognizes the concerns and struggles of field actors, social organizations, trade unions and cooperative associations in the global south and the "peripheries" of post-industrial societies.