Public lecture: Human Rights and Environmental Governance: From Marginalization to Empowerment

September 5, 2017 | 17:00 h - 18:30 h

The Right Livelihood College Campus Bonn at ZEF, the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Entwicklungsdienste e.V.” and the “Volkshochschule Bonn” cordially invite you to a joint public panel discussion supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) about:

Human Rights and Environmental Governance:
From Marginalization to Empowerment


Date and Venue: Tuesday, September 5, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. at „<link http: stadtplan.bonn.de mapbender external-link-new-window internal link in current>Haus der Bildung", Mülheimer Platz 1, 53111 Bonn.

Our speakers are:
  <link http: www.rightlivelihoodaward.org laureates external-link-new-window internal link in current>Juan Pablo Orrego, Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB), Chile, (“Alternative Nobel Prize” winner 1998) and <link https: www.die-gdi.de imme-scholz external-link-new-window internal link in current>Dr. Imme Scholz, Deputy Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn.

The panel discussion will be moderated by: Dr. Merjam Wakili from the international broadcast service “Deutsche Welle”.

About the panel discussion:
Our experts on the panel will discuss the nexus between economic development, ecological balance, and rural livelihoods of marginalized people in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In addition, members of the international audience (among others PhD students from all over the world participating in an RLC workshop at ZEF next week) will be asked to contribute to the discussion actively.

About the speakers:

<link http: www.rightlivelihoodaward.org laureates external-link-new-window internal link in current>Juan Pablo Orrego (Chile, Right Livelihood Award 1998) was born in 1949, and has a Master in Environmental Studies (1986). In 1991 he helped to establish and was elected to be general coordinator of the Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB) to attempt to stop the construction of six dams in the Biobío River in southern Chile, one of South America’s most spectacular rivers and of great ecological significance. Its watershed is also home to the Pehuenche indigenous people, numbering about 10,000. (Read more at the RLA <link http: www.rightlivelihoodaward.org laureates external-link-new-window internal link in current>website). Orrego points out that the “complicity between the government and private companies has allowed projects that are highly destructive.”

<link https: www.die-gdi.de imme-scholz external-link-new-window internal link in current>Dr. Imme Scholz has been working as a sociologist on various aspects of the interface between environment and development, on land and forest use in the Amazon, sustainable consumption, adaptation to climate change and the role of development policy in the promotion of environmental cooperation. She is a member of the Council for Sustainable Development and the of EKD's Chamber for Sustainable Development.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at this event.

Please register with <link external-link-new-window internal link in current>presse.zef@uni-bonn.de by September 4, 2017.

with best regards,

the organizers





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