Please join the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law for a virtual event with Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right to Health. The discussion will focus on the findings of her recent report, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: Challenges and Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Under international law, the right to sexual and reproductive health is embedded within the right to health – which has been challenged as never before by COVID-19. In her report, the special rapporteur examines the lasting impacts of historical colonialism on one’s ability to control their sexual and reproductive health. She addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic compounded those impacts by overwhelming health systems, increasing access barriers, fostering environments for violence, and redirecting funding and political attention to the pandemic.
The special rapporteur will share her perspectives on how we must move forward beyond the COVID-19 pandemic to rebuild and strengthen our health systems for advancing sexual and reproductive health rights as part of the right to health.
Agenda
Opening Remarks:
- Katie Gottschalk, Executive Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
- Oscar A. Cabrera, Director, Healthy Families Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Presentation:
- Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Panel:
- Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- More speakers to be announced
Moderated by: Rebecca Reingold, Associate Director, Healthy Families Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Closing Remarks
- Katie Gottschalk, Executive Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law