High-level Political Forum side event: Ensuring a sustainable recovery that delivers on human rights and the 2030 Agenda

With the Sustainable Recovery pledge, a significant number of UN Member States have expressed their determination to build back better, using the 2030 Agenda, grounded in States’ human rights obligations, as well as the Paris Agreement, as the blueprint.

Panellists in the event discussed what sustainable recovery looks like in practice, the importance of civil society space and participation as well as the risks and opportunities associated with the significant investments in pandemic response and recovery.

VIDEO: Recording of the HLPF side event

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List of speakers at the launch (in order of appearance)

Department Director, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Ms. Birgitte Feiring (Moderator)

Opening segment

• United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris

Panel on State pledge to sustainable recovery that leaves no one behind

• Permanent representative of Denmark to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Mr. Martin Bille Hermann
• Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Mr. Satyendra Prasad
• Deputy Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Ms. Maritza Chan
• Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute, Mr. Soumya Chattopadhyay

Panel on civil society participation in sustainable recovery

• UN Special Rapporteur on Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Mr. Clément Voule
• Chief Programmes Officer, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Mr. Mandeep Tiwana
• Women’s Major Group, Middle East and North Africa Region Organizing Partner, Ms. Shaima Aly

Panel on investments in pandemic response and recovery

• Policy Officer, Transparency International, Mr. Theo Van der Merwe
• Climate and Energy Benchmark Research lead, The World Benchmarking Alliance, Ms. Charlotte Hugman

The HLPF side event was hosted by

• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• The Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York
• The Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York
• The Danish Institute for Human Rights 
• Universal Rights Group
• The UN Special Rapporteur on Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
• Women’s Major Group
• Equal Rights Trust
• Transparency International
• The World Benchmarking Alliance
• CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
• The Overseas Development Institute
• The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)