The Pandemic and Global Democracy (1/4)
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 10/03/2022

Language: English

The COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified the already existing trend of weakening democracies and increasingly repressive autocracies. The conference sheds light on these global trends and the effects of COVID-19 on democratic governance in four panels:
 

Part 1
February 10th, 10:00 am - 10:45 pm (CET) 
 

Kick-off discussion on the democracy crisis
How has the pandemic impacted the global fabric of democracy and human rights?
Has health injustice deepened the democracy crisis?
How do we prepare for the major challenges ahead?

Barbara Unmüßig, President of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation will discuss these questions in a conversation with

- Katja Keul, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
- Fatima Hassan, Health Justice Initiative, South Africa


Panel 1
11:00 am - 12:30 pm (CET) 
The Pandemic: Challenges to Democracy
How do the measures that governments around the world have employed to combat the pandemic pose new challenges to democracy?
What do we know from existing analyses?
What do the recent democracy indexes tell us about the status quo and future trends?
What risks and democratic safeguards do we need to be aware of?

With (among others):
- Sabine Donner, Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Gütersloh
- Péter Krekó, Political Capital Institute, Budapest
- Stefanos Loukopoulos, Vouliwatch, Athens