On Friday 18 September, CESR launched the 2020 Spotlight Report with its publication partners including Global Policy Forum, Public Services International, Social Watch, and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).
The launch featured several of the authors of the report “Shifting Policies for Systemic Change”, including CESR Executive Director Ignacio Saiz. The other speakers included Vanita Mukherjee of DAWN, Roberto Bissio of Social Watch and Ziad Abdel Samad of the Arab NGO Network for Development. Participants discussed what kind of policies, strategies and structural changes are necessary to ensure the primacy of human rights, gender justice and sustainability goals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
See the event flyer here.