13th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

June 7 & 8 2021

9:00 am EST | 3:00 pm CEST | 9:00 pm HKT
* Times below are in Geneva local time

3:00 pm* Welcome

Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, on behalf of Geneva Summit co-sponsors

3:10 pm Surviving the Siege of Aleppo

Waad Al-Kateab, Syrian refugee and award-winning documentary filmmaker on the conflict in Syria

3:15 pm Disappeared by China

Rayhan Asat, Uyghur activist, sister of Ekpar Asat who was abducted by Chinese authorities

3:25 pm Panel: the Fragility of Freedom and Democracy

Moderator: Melissa Mahtani, Senior producer and reporter, CNN

Nathan Law, Former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council who fled arrest & student leader of 2014 Umbrella Movement
András Simonyi, Academic & former Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S.
Can Dündar, Leading Turkish journalist arrested, jailed and forced into exile for his reporting on Erdogan’s government

4:20 pm Artivism and Repression in Cuba

Tania Bruguera, Cuban political performance artist repeatedly arrested for her work

4:25 pm The Political Pandemic: Resurgent Global Authoritarianism

Prof. Irwin Cotler, Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada.

4:30 pm 2021 International Women’s Rights Award

Gulalai Ismail, Pakistani women’s rights activist, former political prisoner who escaped the country

4:45 pm End of day 1

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

9:00 am EST | 3:00 pm CEST
* Times below are in Geneva local time

3:00 pm* Welcome

3:05 pm* Belarus: Fearless in the Face of Tyranny

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian opposition presidential candidate forced to flee after rigged elections

3:15 pm North Korea: Escape from Starvation, Torture, Persecution

3:20 pm 2021 Moral Courage Award

Daria Navalnaya, receiving the award on behalf of her father, Alexei Navalny, leading opponent of Putin, current political prisoner in Russia

3:25 pm Arbitrary Arrest, Solitary Confinement & Forced Confessions: The Case of Iran

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Australian-British academic just freed after two years in Iranian prison as a victim of hostage diplomacy

3:30 pm Panel: Champions for Change
Moderator: Melissa Mahtani, Senior producer and reporter, CNN

Evan Mawarire, Zimbabwean protest leader, arrested six times and tortured for his human rights work
Yang Jianli, Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, survivor of Tiananmen Square massacre and President of Initiatives for China
Vladimir Kara-Murz a, Leading dissident against Putin regime, Chairman of Boris Nemtsov Foundation, survivor of two poisoning attempts

5:00 pm End of program

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