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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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Anna Devol

Airbnb
Community Policy Manager
Portland, Oregon

I'm an Community Policy Manager at Airbnb -- focused on user standards and conduct enforcement policies in both the online and offline spaces. Specific to this summit, I maintain Airbnb's discrimination enforcement policy.

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

9:00am BST

Creating Shared Global Workflows for Social Media Monitoring Utique (Laico)

10:30am BST

Change the Terms: Approaches for addressing a new era of hate online Carthage 1 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Equality Labs Press Conference for the release of "Facebook India: Towards the Tipping Point of Violence. Casteist and Religious Hate Speech on the platform." Utique (Laico) Social Media and Conflict: Research and product case studies Caspian (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Future Proof: Imagining a tech positive future Hannibal (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Tracking Takedown Transparency Today and Tomorrow: Lessons learned and next steps for the emerging practice of transparency reporting on content moderation Dougga (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico)

9:00am BST

Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais) Technology in Conflict: Assessing platform companies’ human rights responsibility and accountability in high-risk settings El Jem (Laico)

10:30am BST

Moderate Bias? Exploring anti-bias training in the context of online content moderation Carthage 2 (Laico) Tackling Takedowns: Building platform transparency and accountability Dougga (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: North America Laico Buffet Restaurant Bringing fairness to digital disputes in the United States Jelsa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Beyond Dating Apps: LGBTQ people in other online platforms Oya 3 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Taking an Ethical Stand: Building tech companies of the future L'Escale (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Don't Stand So Close to Me: Curbing harassment in virtual reality and emergent media Adean (Palais) Hacking Digital Gender Norms Oya 1 (Laico)

10:30am BST

The Ghost in the Machine: Remedy for algorithmic discrimination Limes (Laico)

12:00pm BST

The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Emojis and human rights Carthage 3 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Tackling Terrorist Use of the Internet: A roadmap to holistic and human rights compliant solutions L'Escale (Laico) Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)