9th Annual Geneva Summit
February 2017
21
Tuesday
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
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