3rd Annual Geneva Summit

9:00 Opening  Speech

• Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer)
  Executive Director of UN Watch, on behalf of the NGO Coalition

9:15 After the Referendum: The Human Rights Situation in Sudan

Moderator: Catherine Fiankan-Bokonga, Journalist

• John Dau, Sudanese Author and Founder of the John Dau Foundation
• Bernard Schalscha, General Secretary, Collectif Urgence Darfour
• Haun Branco, President of Jeune République

10:45 Protecting Press Freedom and Internet Freedom

Moderator: Ilana Soskin, Lawyer and Delegate, LICRA

• Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Opposition journalist, Venezuela
• Nguyen Thanh Van, Vietnamese blogger
• Grace Kwinjeh, Zimbabwean Female Human Rights defender and journalist

12:00 Africa and LGBT rights

Moderator: Karin S. Woldseth, Norwegian MP

• Jacqueline Kasha, President and Co-founder of Freedom and Roam Uganda

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

14:00 Revolution in the Middle East

Moderator: Darius Rochebin, TSR

• Mahmoud Salem, Egyptian blogger, founder of the Popular Egyptian blog “Rantings of Sandmonkey”
• Mohammed Eljahmi, Libyan dissident
• Dalia Ziada, Egyptian blogger and Egyptian Director of the American Islamic Congress (via Skype)
• Lina Ben Mhenni , Tunisian blogger

15:30 The Right against Arbitrary Arrest

Moderator: Naomi Ichihara Rokkum, Vice-President of IFLRY

• Guang-il Jung, North Korean dissident, tortured and escaped from Labor Camps
• Farid Tukhbatullin, Turkmen Human rights activist, former prisoner. Under death threat by his government
• Luis Enrique Ferrer Garcia, Cuban dissident who received a 28-year sentence for his work with the Varela project, a civic initiative calling for democratic reforms in Cuba
• Mohammad Mostafaei, Prominent human rights lawyers from Iran

17:00 After Liu Xianobo’s Nobel Prize: The Situation of Human Rights in China

Moderator: Yang Jianli, Chinese dissident and human rights activist

• Dechem Pemba, UK-born Tibetan, editor of the website High Peaks Pure Part, on which Tibetan blogs written in Tibetan and Chinese are translated into English
• Bahtiyar Ömer, Uyghur human rights activist whose wife, Gulmire Imin, received life imprisonment for her role as an “illegal organizer” during the 2009 demonstrations
• Ti-Anna Wang, Daughter of Bingzhang WANG, Chinese dissident in life detention and solitary confinement, one of the founding members of the overseas Chinese Democracy Movement 
• Andili Maimaitekerimu, President of East Turkestan Association in Switzerland 

———————— 18:00 End of the Summit ————————