Video recording - Webinar on Building an internationalist response to COVID-19

COVID-19

2 April 2020

Recording of a webinar TNI organised on 1 April at 4pm (CET) on the global dimensions of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and how social movements could respond.

The panel featured the following guests:

Sonia Shah, author of Pandemic: Tracking contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2017)
Luis Ortiz Hernandez, public health professor in UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico. Expert on social and economic health inequities.
Benny Kuruvilla, Head of India Office, Focus on the Global South, working closely with Forum For Trade Justice.
Mazibuko Jara, Deputy Director, Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, helping to coordinate a national platform of civic organisations in South Africa to confront COVID-19.
Umyra Ahmad, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Associate, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Malaysia This webinar was co-sponsored by Alternative Information and Development Centre, South Africa and Focus on the Global South/Asia.

Thanks to artist Elizabeth Niarhos for this beautiful illustration of our first webinar.