9th Annual Geneva Summit

9:15  Welcome

• Hillel Neuer    (@HillelNeuer)
  Executive Director of UN Watch

9:25  Opening Address

• Irwin Cotler    (@IrwinCotler)
  Chair, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

9:45  The Return of Authoritarianism 

Moderator: Jakub Klepal    
Executive Director, Forum 2000

• Can Dündar    (@candundaradasi)
  Exiled former editor of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet
• Zhanna Nemtsova    (@ZhannaNemstova)
  Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom
• Anastasia Zotova
  Human rights activist, wife of jailed Russian dissident Ildar Dadin

10:45  Presentation of Geneva Summit 2017 Women’s Rights Award

Presenter: Tamara Dancheva
Liberal International

• Shirin
  Freed Yazidi sex slave of the Islamic State, author of “I Remain a Daughter of the Light”

11:15  Fighting Oppression, Defending Human Rights

Moderator: Jared Genser    (@JaredGenser)
Perseus Strategies

• Antonietta Ledezma    (@anleca15)
  Human rights activist, daughter of imprisoned Mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma
• Chito Gascon
  Chair, Philippines Human Rights Commission
• Taghi Rahmani
  Journalist, former Iranian political prisoner, husband of jailed human rights activist Narges Mohammadi

12:15  Do Human Rights Matter?

• Ambassador Alfred H. Moses
  Chair of UN Watch

———————— 12:30   Networking Lunch ————————

13:00  Side Event – Youth, the Media and Human Rights Activism: Uses and challenges

With: Zhanna Nemtsova
Journalist, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

14:00  Art for Human Rights

• El Sexto
  Cuban graffiti artist, dissident, jailed for criticizing Castro, just released from prison four weeks ago

14:20  The Fight for Freedom and Democracy

Moderator: Maria Alejandra Aristeguieta
Coordinator, Iniciativa por Venezuela

• Nyima Lhamo
  Escaped Tibetan activist, niece of Buddhist leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche who died in Chinese prison
• Biram Dah Abeid
  Leader of anti-slavery fight in Mauritania

15:00  Presentation of Geneva Summit 2017 Courage Award

Presenter: Astrid Thors    (@AstridThors)
Former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Finnish Minister, MP & MEP

• Mohamed Nasheed    (@MohamadNasheed)
  Former President of the Maldives, country’s leading human rights activist, former political prisoner

15:30  Voices for the Voiceless

Moderator: Médard Mulangala    (@medardmulanala)
Opposition leader in DRC

• James Jones    (@jamesjonestv)
  Producer of film “Saudi Arabia Uncovered”
• Kim Kwang-jin
  North Korean defector and former banker of the North Korean dictator
• Dang Xuan Dieu
  Vietnamese human rights activist, political prisoner for 6 years, just released last month

———————— 16:30   End of Summit  ————————