Equality: the Road Less Travelled | Professor Paul Hunt | TEDxUniversityofEssex

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Human rights include the rights to healthcare, education and housing. If we are serious about equality, we have to be serious about these neglected human rights -- which are really equality rights. Evidence demonstrates these human rights contribute to the well-being of individuals and communities. Using short video clips, the talk argues there is a new, dynamic, global movement for the practical implementation of these empowering human rights. In short, these rights signpost "the road less travelled" to equality and equity for all.
Professor Paul Hunt specialises in international and domestic human rights law. He has lived, and undertaken human rights work, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the South Pacific. In 1998, he was nominated by the Government of New Zealand and elected by the United Nations to serve as an independent expert on the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1999-2002). Between 2002-2008, he served as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health and, in 2008, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Nordic School of Public Health. He is a member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and Adjunct Professor at Waikato University, New Zealand.
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Professor Paul's work, mainly on maternal health rights, is phenomenal. I'm grateful for his contributions.

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The best professor I have ever met. The real super star of human rights. Proud of you dear Paul.

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Inspiring, Paul. Tell Roby we shall overcome.

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