The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) invites you for their COVID-19 Stimulus Webinar, where they will launch their review report of the South African Stimulus Package through a Human Rights and Financial lens, and debate emerging thinking on Jurisprudence on Retrogressivity, explore Civil Society Activism to Austerity Budgeting and hear insights into Maximum Available Resources: expanding boundaries in a post-COVID world through the lens of the USA in 2021. The webinar will be streamed on the SPII Facebook page.

Distinguished panel of experts will include:

• Professor Sandra Liebenberg from the University of Stellenbosch and UN CESCR Member
• Dr Shanelle van der Berg from the SAHRC
• Busi Sibeko from the Budget Justice Coalition
• Duma Gqubule, Financial Journalist
• Professor Philip Alston from the New York University and Former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty
• Isobel Frye, Director - SPII