The panel will be chaired by H.E. Ms. Keva L. Bain, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council
Opening: Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Session I: 10:00 to 11.00 CEST: The human right to social security and the changing world of work
Ms. Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, ILO
Ms. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
Mr Mohamed Ezzeddine Abdel Moneim, Chair of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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Session II: 11.00 to 12.00 CEST: Promoting substantive equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to social security
Hon. Utoni Nujoma, Minister of Labour, Namibia
Mr. Alradi Abdalla,
Disability-Inclusive Social Protection, International Disability Alliance
Ms. María Rodríguez Alcázar, Board Member, Youth Forum
Ms. Michele Levoy, Director, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
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Session III: 14.30-15.30 CEST: Fiscal space for social protection and States’ human rights obligations
Ms. Isabel Ortiz, Director of the Global Social Justice Program at Joseph Stiglitz's Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University,
Ms. Kate Donald, Director of Program, Center for Economic and Social Rights
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Session IV: 15.30 to 16.30 CEST: The right to social security at the heart of the new social contract
Ms. Rachel Moussie, Deputy Director of the Social Protection Program, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
Mr. Gerard Quinn, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Ms. Isiuwa Iyahen, Programme Specialist - Economic Empowerment and Statistics, UN WOMEN
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