3rd meeting, Social Forum 2020

Global-local interlinkages II: Productive capacity, public budgeting, tax justice and participation Moderator: Ms. Anida Yupari Aguado, Economic Affairs Officer, Office of the Secretary General, UNCTAD • Mr. Patrick Osakwe, Head, Trade and Poverty Branch, UNCTAD Building productive capacities and transforming economies to achieve sustained and inclusive development in Africa • Ms. Busi Sibeko, Economist and researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), South Africa Budgetary choices and spending priorities • Mr. Nicholas Lusiani, Senior Advisor on Corporate Advocacy at Oxfam America Fiscal space, taxation and illicit financial flows • Ms. Flavia Oliveira, Commentator at GloboNews, Columnist at O Globo newspaper and radio CBN. Podcaster at Angu de Grilo, Brazil Discrimination, Racism and participation in budgeting Interactive dialogue "Seasons in the Time of Corona", Music video by the UN Music Club (UN.Ensemble.Virtuel): - Ms. Idalina Cappe de Baillon (soprano, staff member, UNICEF) - Ms. Ursula Loizides (flute, staff member, WHO) - Mr. Damianos Serefidis (violin, staff member, OHCHR) - Mr. Michael Wiener (piano and composer, staff member, OHCHR) The role of the state and public policies to address poverty and inequalities Moderator: Mr. George-Konstantinos Charonis, Youth Focal Point, OHCHR • Ms. Ileana Morales Suarez, National Director of Science and Technological Research at the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba Health • Ms. Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization Social Protection, Universal Basic Income and Cash Transfers • Mr. Andrew Becroft, Children's Commissioner, New Zealand Child poverty: Cause and solutions? – Community causes and government response • Ms. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Employment, decent work and minimum wage, and the future of work • Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context Housing and urbanization • Ms. Ariunaa Shagdarsuren, Chairperson, Association to Support Mongolian Women's Labour, and Ms. Dolgor Ayush, Chairperson, Alliance for Development, Mongolia Education in the context of extreme poverty Interactive dialogue/Breakout groups