3rd Annual Geneva Summit
March 2011
14
Tuesday
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 ————————