The Cornell International Human Rights Clinic (Policy Advocacy) submitted an amicus brief for a case filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of a community in Ecuador that has been in voluntary self-isolation (even before COVID-19). How does one represent a community that you cannot communicate with? What does right to health mean for indigenous communities for whom contact could mean death? We will discuss these and other questions in this panel co-sponsored by the Human Rights Centre at the Catholic University of Ecuador. Participants include a lawyer who filed the case, the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Commission, and a human rights professor from Cornell Law School. There will be simultaneous English and Spanish interpretations. For a copy of the amicus brief, click here.

The webinar will be conducted through Zoom: https://bit.ly/2MxdKBd