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28 November 2022 15:00-16:00

Welcome to Social Innovation Foresight on Human Rights, 28 November, at 3 to 4 PM, CET, where we reflect on and explore how social innovation can increase the impact of human rights work and suggest different ways forward.

During the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the human rights field developed, concentrating on the global dissemination of human rights standards embodied in treaties and agreements. Now they are part of the language and common sense of global governance. Unfortunately, efforts to legitimize and enforce the standards in practice are not as rapid. Awareness raising, naming, and shaming states and private corporations that violate human rights are important strategies but not enough to make sure that states undertake their obligation to respect, protect and fulfill human rights.  

What structural trends and challenges does the law and human rights field face? What old patterns do we need to change? How can we make local human rights work reach societal change? How can we prevent human rights violations and instill a pro-rights culture within society and state structure? What are the appropriate strategies and what possible futures for human rights work do we envision?   

The speakers at this Foresight will be Santiago Pardo Rodríguez - Senior Law Clerk of the Colombian Constitutional Court & Head of the Design for Justice Lab at Universidad de Los Andes, Charity Ryerson - the Executive Director and Founder of Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), an innovation hub that unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse, and Herve Morin - the UPSHIFT Global lead at UNICEF.

The talk is moderated by Hanna Gerdes, an experienced human rights lawyer who has worked with the implementation of human rights for 20 years, as an expert and an advisor for international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the Swedish government and different Swedish authorities.

Time:
28 November, 3 to 4 PM, CET

Place: The event is digital and will be live broadcasted. A link will be sent to you before the broadcast starts.

For you who are in Malmö welcome to join us at Malmö University in Storm, at Gäddan, Citadellsvägen 7, to watch the livestream of the talk together. We will serve “fika” from 2:45 PM.

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    Speakers and moderator

    Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
    Senior Law Clerk of the Colombian Constitutional Court & Head of the Design for Justice Lab at Universidad de Los Andes

    Santiago Pardo Rodríguez is a lawyer with an LLM from the Universidad de los Andes, an MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society from the London School of Economics, and a Master of the Science of Law (JSM) from Stanford University.  He is currently clerking for justice Natalia Ángel Cabo at the Colombian Constitutional Court. Santiago Pardo Rodríguez has ample experience in Constitutional Law, Public Law, Transitional Justice, and Empirical Legal Research. He is also qualified to implement Legal Design and Design Thinking methodologies for solving problems related to access to justice and the development of a new generation of solutions to overcome barriers that hinder access to justice.  With the support of Stanford's Legal Design Lab, Pardo Rodríguez founded the first Access to Justice Design Lab in Colombia at the Universidad de los Andes. The Lab is a joint venture between the Law, Design, and Engineer Schools to create a new generation of legal and judicial products.  He is also the creator of El Reconstituyente, the first-ever Podcast in Colombia dedicated to constitutional law and judicial history.

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    Charity Ryerson
    Executive Director and Founder of Corporate Accountability Lab

    Charity Ryerson is the Executive Director and Founder of Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), an innovation hub that unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse. Charity has litigated complex international human rights cases under the Alien Tort Statute, Torture Victim Protection Act and state tort law. She has extensive experience in labor and human rights monitoring, anti-union violence investigations, and support for labor organizing. Her work has been covered in the Washington Post, The Guardian, and NPR's The World. In 2003, she served six months in federal prison for civil disobedience, where she worked in a prison factory for 12 cents per hour. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law and is admitted to practice in D.C. and Illinois, and before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2021, she received the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable’s Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award. She is fluent in Spanish, has two rambunctious children, and loves Chicago enough to tolerate the brutal winters.

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    Herve Morin
    UPSHIFT Global Lead at UNICEF

    Herve Morin is the UPSHIFT Global lead at the UNICEF Office of Innovation. UPSHIFT is an adolescent and young people skills development programme that rapidly unlocks the participants' potential to create real and tangible change in their lives and in their communities. Based on best practices from non-formal education, experiential learning, and business education UPSHIFT is a learning journey combining workshops, mentorship, and an entrepreneurial challenge. Participants explore how to analyze and understand community challenges they deeply care about and to build products or services addressing them. Initially launched in Kosovo in 2014, UPSHIFT is now operational in 46 countries and is on track to deliver 70 million learning hours to 3 million young people by the end of 2022

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    Hanna Gerdes
    Moderator and human rights lawyer

    Hanna Gerdes is an experienced human rights lawyer and has worked with the implementation of human rights for 20 years. Hanna has worked as an expert and an advisor for both international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the Swedish government and different Swedish authorities.

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    Organizers

    Forum for Social Innovation Sweden
    Malmö University