First Keynote Panel of the 2021 International Virtual Conference on Emerging Research in Politics, Development, and Human Rights

COVID-19 increased our vulnerabilities and exposed protracted challenges faced by peoples from all walks of life, particularly in the global south. It exacerbated recurring social, economic, and political emergencies. These include democratic backsliding, increasing militarization, heightening inequalities, increasing marginalization of vulnerable groups, and the rise of authoritarianism and populism.

This Keynote Panel seeks to shed light and contribute to discourses on and efforts in addressing the impacts of the pandemic on high-risk individuals and groups.

Ms. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, shall share her analysis on the impacts of the protracted COVID-19 emergency on Internally Displaced Persons.

Ms. Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Executive Director of ARROW, shall discuss the effects of the pandemic on gender and sexuality.

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