WCC and GFOD Webinar: Zero “CDWD” Discrimination Day - In solidarity with communities discriminated on work and descent globally
Communities discriminated on work and descent are some of the most excluded, segregated, and marginalized groups at the global and local level within their social, economic, political, and cultural systems. Their fate is not too different from that of racialized communities. They are all assigned categories that are regarded as permanent by those that oppress, exploit and discriminate against them.
The consequences of this marginalization are the deprivation, systematic and systemic exclusion from education, health, access to water and sanitation, employment, voting rights, equal access to land and housing, and access to religious institutions in the public sphere.
Speakers will describe, some from the workers’ point of view, how such discrimination makes people feel as if they do not exist except when their service is needed by those that discriminate against them.
Moderator:
- Rev. Dr Deenabandhu Manchala, theologian and author, former WCC staff
- Speakers:
- Rita Izsak, senior advisor on Anti-Racism, UNDP Global Policy Network, former member UN CERD, and former special rapporteur on Minority Rights
- Dr Azza Karam, secretary general, Religions for Peace and professor of Religion and Development, Vrije University, Amsterdam
- Paul Divakar Namala, convenor, Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFOD), New Delhi/New York
- Vercilene Dias, legal coordinator, National Confederation of Quilombola Communities, Brazil
- Dr Brahim Ramdhane, director, Sahel Foundation, Mauritania
- Priyanka Samy, National Federation of Dalit Women, India
- Dr Simoni Torotcoi, director, Romani Rights Forum, Romania
Register here to join this webinar live, Wednesday, 1 March, 1-3 pm CET