Invitation to Cover: 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

From: Nelson Mandela Foundation

Date of publication: 18 August 2021

The Nelson Mandela Foundation would like to invite you to attend and cover the 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, taking place virtually, on 25 August 2021 from 15h00 to 17h00. We would also like to invite you to attend a short media briefing on Monday 23 August, from 12h30 to 13h00.

The 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture will be delivered by the former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, whose term ended on 15 June 2021. She served the ICC with distinction for nearly two decades. Her theme for the Lecture will be The Rule of Law, International Criminal Justice and Sustainable Development. Terrible failures in the rule of law in parts of South Africa during July have underlined the importance of these lines of enquiry.

The theme for the 19th lecture builds directly on the 18th lecture by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during which he called for a New Global Deal. As he pointed out, in the contexts of COVID-19, the current global order and its underpinning social contract simply are not working for the great majority of the world’s human population. Nor are they working for the Earth and for nonhuman species. How can we do not more but differently? What might a new liberatory social contract look like? How do we build the solidarities that we will need in order to find sustainable solutions to the multiple challenges confronting humanity? How do we redeem respect for the rule of law and grow cultures of accountability in contexts where most human communities are alienated from notions of ‘law and order’?

You can access Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture collateral, video, audio and image material, here.

Source: Nelson Mandela Foundation