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Rosa Orozco, mother of student Geraldine Moreno killed by the Venezuelan National Guard while protesting against the government in February 2014, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights [...]

Denise Ho, award-winning Hong Kong-based singer, actress and pro-democracy and LGBTQ rights activist, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — see quotes below, followed by [...]

Memory Banda, leading Malawian rights activist fighting to end child marriage and harmful practices against girls, recipient of the International Youth Student Award and the UN’s Young Activist Award, addressed [...]

Laritza Diversent, Cuban lawyer, journalist, and human rights defender who serves as Executive Director of the nonprofit Cubalex, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — [...]

Yavuz Aydin, Turkish judge purged by President Erdogan now living in exile, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — see quotes below, followed by the [...]

Pete Pattison, award-winning investigative journalist who reports on labor exploitation and modern forms of slavery around the world, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — [...]

Nury Turkel, attorney and Uyghur rights advocate who co-founded the Uyghur Human Rights Project, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — see quotes below, followed [...]

Kaveh Shahrooz, lawyer, writer and human rights activist who led a recent successful effort to convince Canada's parliament to recognize the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran as crimes [...]

Lyubov Sobol, Russian lawyer, anti-corruption activist and leader of the pro-democracy movement, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — see quotes below, followed by the [...]

Biram Dah Abeid, Mauritanian antislavery campaigner and founder of Mauritania’s Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), received the Courage Award and addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit [...]