PDI Spotlight Series | Making it Work for Everyone: Human Rights in Action

Event Overview

What if the goals you set for your life and family were more connected to human rights than you think?

This engaging session invites you to uncover the profound connection that links between personal priorities and fundamental human rights and to explore the often overlooked disconnect between what matters to individuals and what drives public institutions and organizations. Grounded in global data, it reveals how aligning with human rights can lead to stronger outcomes, from greater prosperity and security to improved well-being.

You’ll also be introduced to key universal human rights principles and ideas, brought to life through several examples from Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Discover how bias is embedded in everyday systems and professional practices, and how you can play a role in challenging it.

Walk away with fresh insights and a practical lens to start identifying and addressing inequities in your own work and daily life.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Strengthen the connection between personal and professional values and the core principles of human dignity and rights.
• Differentiate between human-centered and object-centered planning.
• Identify hidden and structural inequalities and forms of discrimination in everyday work and life context.

Instructor

Slava Balan

Slava Balan is an international lawyer, human rights and gender equality consultant and advisor. Slava worked with governments, national human rights institutions, civil society groups, and the United Nations in the areas of human and minority rights, gender equality and women empowerment, elections, democracy and rule of law. He advised and consulted the development of several major strategic policy documents within the United Nations and in Europe. Slava taught a course on Human Rights-Based Approach to Governance, Law and Policy-Making at the University of Ottawa and abroad. Slava finalizes his PhD in Law at the University of Ottawa and serves as the Executive Director of the International Commission of Jurists – Canada.