States of Control: The Dark Side of Pandemic Politics

Apr 29th, 2020 9:00 am

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Join the Transnational Institute's fifth COVID-19 webinar, which will examine authoritarian and repressive state responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, featuring UN Special Rapporteur on Protecting Human Rights and other global experts and activists.

You need to register in advance to receive an invitation and link to the webinar. The live webinar takes place 4pm in Amsterdam and 9 am in San Miguel de Allende.

The webinar is conducted in English, but is live-interpreted into French and Spanish.

If you have missed any of the Transnational Institute's weekly webinars in response to Covid-19, the videos are available on their website at https://www.tni.org/en/webinars

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States of Control: The Dark Side of Pandemic Politics