The HSRC BRICS Seminar Series
Time to end extreme inequality. A Perspective from the
BRICS
Presenters: Mr Pooven Moodley, Associate Country Director for
Oxfam in South Africa
Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing
facilities: see below)
Date: 7 April 2015
Time: 12H15
for 12h30 – 14H00
This year the World Social Science Forum will be taking place in
Durban under the theme "Transforming global relations for a just
world". The Forum focus on a range of issues pertaining to global
inequalities as they relate to governance, healthcare and education, climate
change and adaptation, patterns of production and consumption, and human rights
and social justice.
Following on this theme the HSRC’s BRICS Research Centre has
invited Oxfam to present the findings of their recently published report
entitled ‘In Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality’. Drawing on case
studies from around the world the report demonstrates the impact that rising
inequality is having on rich and poor countries alike and explores the
different ways that people and governments are responding to it.
While focusing on inequality trends on a global level the
presenter will frame the analysis within a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China
and South Africa) context. The BRICS countries present interesting cases as
they continue to have growing influence in the global economy while facing
challenges in reducing inequality but have been at the cutting edge of a range
of successful and groundbreaking pro poor policies.
Pooven Moodley is currently Associate
Country Director for Oxfam in South Africa, having previously worked with Oxfam
International on Development Financing issues at the Pan Africa level. He is a
Human Rights lawyer and an advocate of issues affecting the poor, having
started his campaigning at a very young age during the struggle against
apartheid in South Africa and taking on pro bono precedent setting human rights
cases.
He has worked for and also consulted for leading international
agencies including Johns Hopkins University, Oxfam, UNDP, Futures Group, The
Policy Project and the Research Triangle Institute. As the first HIV/AIDS
Parliamentary Lobbyist on the continent he has worked extensively with
Governments, Parliaments and Civil Society across Africa influencing and
developing policy. He has played a role in influencing international structures
such as the World Economic Forum, G8, G20, BRICS and UN General Assembly.
Kindly RSVP by 5 April 2015
Cape Town : HSRC, 12th Floor,
Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street, Cape Town. Contact
Jean Witten, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or JWitten@hsrc.ac.za
Durban : First floor HSRC board room, 750
Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, Pods 5 and 6, Cato Manor, Contact Ridhwaan
Khan, Tel (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za
Pretoria : HSRC Video Conference,
1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street,
Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za
Arlene Grossberg
Human Sciences Research Council
134 Pretorius Street
Pretoria
Tel: +27 12 302 2811
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