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Special Session: Normative Frameworks for Social Justice

Scheduled
Geneva
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Held under the auspices of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, this high-level session will explore how normative frameworks—anchored in international labour standards and rights-based economic policies—can drive inclusive and equitable development. It will highlight two of the Coalition’s flagship interventions: the Centre of Excellence on Inequalities, which addresses structural drivers of exclusion and unequal access to rights, and the Human Rights Economy, which promotes dignity, equity, and sustainability through transformative economic approaches.

Bringing together senior UN officials, ILO leadership, and leading academic experts, the session will examine how normative frameworks can function as levers for economic and social transformation, and the conditions under which they generate fairer labour market outcomes. The format will include two thematic rounds of moderated discussion and an open dialogue with participants.

Speakers

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Nada Al-Nashif
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
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Manuela Tomei
Assistant Director-General - Governance, Rights and Dialogue, International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Prof. Radhika Balakrishnan
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
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Prof. Simon Deakin
Professor of Law and Director, University of Cambridge
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Prof. Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
Reader in Development Economics, SOAS University of London

Moderators

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Sukti Dasgupta
Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organization (ILO)
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Corinne Vargha
Director, International Labour Standards Department (NORMES), International Labour Organization (ILO)