The sun broke through the clouds to shine on the Kimdaejung Convention Center in Gwangju on the afternoon of Oct. 10, putting an end to a chilly rain that had threatened to darken the mood at the 12th World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF). The grim theme of “Climate Crisis and Human Rights,” combined with dark suits and jetlag, could have demoralized any crowd. Instead, the heavens offered a ray of hope, one badly needed with serious issues at stake.
Lucy Williams is a
law professor at Northeastern University, faculty director of its Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, and co-director of its Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her activism and scholarship have focused on domestic and global inequality. She founded and has coordinated for 15 years the International Social and Economic Rights Project, a group of academics, judges and activists primarily from the Global South working to encourage transformative thinking about social and economic rights.
Domingo Lovera-Parmo
Domingo Lovera-Parmo is an
Associate professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). Ll.M. Columbia University (2007), Ph.D. Osgoode Hall Law School (2016). His research focuses on