The Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, took part in a video panel discussion hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs entitled "Global issues that cannot be ignored". 

The panel was moderated by Ambassador Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO. 

The panel also featured Muhammad Yunus, Chairman of the Yunus Centre Grameen Bank, champion of microcredit for the poor, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner (2006), and Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. 

Panelists touched on three critical issues that cannot be forgotten amid the chaos caused by the coronavirus: climate change, poverty, and human rights. 

Karman focused on human rights and Najam on climate change while Yunus on poverty. All three also focused on the connections between these three critical issues.

"We have to unite, we have to stand together, and we must affirm our struggle to stop this decline in human rights,” said Ms. Karman. 

She pointed out that the protests taking place in the United States send a message to all of us and third-world peoples that the American people are alive and those protests are not only a victory for human rights values inside the United States, but rather a defense of human rights everywhere.