Tackling the Inequality Crisis: Why an International Panel on Inequality is Needed Now
In country after country, wealth and income inequality are widening. Wealth and power are being concentrated in ever fewer hands, while many face declining living standards, shrinking public services and precarious work. This is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices - and it demands a global response.
ITUC, Oxfam International, the Fight Inequality Alliance, and Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies invite you to a side event during the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week:
This event will bring together trade unionists, civil society, academia, governments, and international organizations to discuss what an International Panel on Inequality could make possible: and independent evidence base and shared analysis to help turn the tide on inequality.
Breakfast will be served from 9:00 AM.
Speakers
Professor Jayati Ghosh (India), Founding Committee for an International Panel on Inequality
Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, Oxfam International
Cathy Feingold, Deputy President, International Trade Union Confederation
Ishaan Tharoor, The New Yorker magazine’s Global Affairs Columnist [moderator]
Tal Smith, Author of What We Can Afford and journalist, The New Yorker [moderator]
Dr. Adriana E. Abdenur, IPI Founding Committee and Co-President, Global Fund for a New Economy
Sarita Gupta, Vice-President of U.S. Programs, Ford Foundation
Pedro Abramovay, Vice-President of Programs, Open Society Foundations
Agnès Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Jenny Ricks, General Secretary, Fight Inequality Alliance
Paul Smoke, Executive Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Alicé Nascimento, Political Director, New York Communities for Change
Co-sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Oxfam, the Fight Inequality Alliance, and Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, and hosted by Open Society Foundations, this event comes at an important moment in the growing global effort to address extreme inequality and build support for the proposed International Panel on Inequality (IPI).