openDemocracy: 'How can we challenge human rights abuses during the pandemic?' - 30 April 2020, 5.00pm (GMT+1)

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The coronavirus crisis has brought with it an unprecedented attack on human rights around the world. On Thursday 30 April at 5pm (UK time), join three women leading the fight for justice and human rights around the world during pandemic – and long after.

Helena Kennedy, Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Labour member of the House of Lords in the UK.

Latanya Mapp Frett, President of the Global Fund for Women, based in the US, and a former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global.

Monica Roa, Acclaimed international women’s rights activist. In 2006, she and her organisation persuaded the Constitutional Court of Columbia to overturn the ban on abortion.

Chair: Mary Fitzgerald Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy.