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RightsCon Tunis 2019

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.

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Alison Carmel

7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media
International Relations & Advocacy
Palestine

I am digital rights defender, writer, researcher and advocate. Most of my work has been focused on advocating for Palestinian human rights. I also have worked as a corporate social responsibility researcher and web developer. Talk to me about how the policies and practices of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, Paypal and Airbnb impact Palestinians and international solidarity activists.

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5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Building the First Global Perceptions of Gender and Online Violence Leptis (Laico) Improving Cooperation to Advance Human Rights Online Amilcar (Laico) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Combating Cybercrime Laws in the Middle East and North Africa Region Cyrene (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Pegasus Spyware Threatens Press Freedom, From Mexico to Saudi Arabia Biscay (Palais)

2:15pm BST

What role for regulators in the digital era? Caspian (Palais)

3:45pm BST

How Tech Firms Enable Human Rights Violations in Palestine Jelsa (Laico) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Multistakeholder Models of Content Moderation: A global perspective Carthage 2 (Laico) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Surveilling Dissent: Online spy mechanisms used by police against protestors L'Escale (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: North America Laico Buffet Restaurant Tech Demos: Privacy across ages and spaces Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico) Visual Investigations at the New York Times: Innovations in Truth Telling Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Fear, Friction, and Flooding: New models of censorship in the MENA region (the case of Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, and Turkey) Carthage 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: Fighting censorship, surveillance, and disinformation around the Globe The BeeHive (Palais) Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico)

9:00am BST

How to Impact the Global Human Rights Agenda: Recommendations from the UN High-level Panel Carthage 1 (Laico)

10:30am BST

Surveillance Tech and Oppressive Governments: Exploring cases of abuse and avenues for global cooperation going forward Carthage 1 (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)