5th International Social Justice Conference and 6th Annual Social Justice Summit
Thu Oct 17, 09:00 - Fri Oct 18, 17:00
Artscape Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
ABOUT
The International Conference on Social Justice and the Sustainable Development Goal on Zero Hunger, scheduled to take place at the Artscape Theatre Centre (Cape Town) on 17 October 2024, aims to interrogate research, policies and legal developments on hunger with a view to increasing the pace of progress in addressing hunger as one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2, “Zero Hunger”). The International Conference will bring together academics, lawyers, judges and civil society researchers who are involved in research on the intersection between hunger, social justice and human rights; to share research outputs and explore innovative solutions and best practices on the integration of data science and neuroscience in social and legal policy design processes.
The Summit, which is in its sixth iteration, is a decision-making structure that moves the needle one inch at a time on the Musa Plan. While the Summit primarily focuses on South Africa, it also looks at the rest of the world as a benchmark. In its sixth iteration, the Summit seeks to provide a platform to locate “Hunger” within the broader social context of structural social injustice that plunges some into hunger and related multi-dimensional aspects of poverty. The conflict, climate change, gender discrimination, and weak government and health systems all play a role in driving hunger, the Summit also seeks to integrate social justice thinking into policy-making, with a view to accelerating the progress on the SDGs, particularly SDG 10 (reducing inequality), taken with SDGs 1 (zero poverty), 2 (zero hunger), 5 (gender equality), 13 (climate reclamation) and 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions).
Date of Summit: Friday 18 October 2024 Venue: Artscape Theatre Centre, Cape Town South Africa