The Annual Harry Street Lecture 2024
| Dates: | 13 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:30 - 19:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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| Speaker: | Professor Aoife Nolan |
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Human Rights, the Cost of Living and Polycrisis in Europe
This Lecture, which will be given by Professor Aoife Nolan, President of the Council of Europe's
European Committee of Social Rights, focuses on what the cost of living crisis and the broader polycrisis
mean for human rights standards, mechanisms and effectiveness in Europe.
Since 2022, Europe has faced a cost of living crisis, with high inflation and associated rising prices
and reduced household incomes having a particularly severe impact on those who were already at
the sharp end of European society. Far from being a merely short-term, freestanding social and
economic ‘blip’ that will be solved by a drop in inflation, the cost-of-living crisis forms part of a
polycrisis; it constitutes the most chronologically recent element of the series of financial,
economic, health and conflict-related shocks that have buffeted the most socially vulnerable
across Europe over the last two decades. This lecture focuses on what the cost of living crisis and
the broader polycrisis mean for human rights standards, mechanisms and effectiveness in Europe.
What role should human rights play In a present and future of polycrisis – and how can this be ensured?
Speaker
Professor Aoife Nolan
Role: President
Organisation: Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights
Travel and Contact Information
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Theatre A
University Place
Manchester
