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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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Anne-Marie Brook

Human Rights Measurement Initiative
Co-founder
Global, headquartered in New Zealand

https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/

Until now the world hasn’t had a simple, comprehensive and transparent way to monitor how well countries are respecting the rights of their people. This was a problem; when something is not measured, it is easily overlooked and undervalued. We are now filling this gap.
Please get in touch if you are working to improve human rights anywhere in the world. We have some AMAZING data for tracking human rights over time. I'd love to show you what data we have for your country, or your rights focus, and hear what more we can do for you.

I am an Edmund Hillary Fellow, with undergrad degrees in Psychology and Economics and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University.

twitter handles: @amlbrook and @rightsmetrics

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Tech Demos: Mischief managed – measuring and mapping for human rights Limes (Laico)

10:30am BST

Enabling Digital Civic Space: A Conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clement Voule Caspian (Palais) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais) Unlocking the Potential for Digital Technology to Enable Human Rights Adean (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Future-Proofing Human Rights Documentation: Tools for Protecting Endangered Evidence Oya 1 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

North Koreans Need Real Information Village Stage (Laico) Pegasus Spyware Threatens Press Freedom, From Mexico to Saudi Arabia Biscay (Palais)

2:15pm BST

20 Years Since the Human Rights Defenders Declaration was Adopted at the UN, Over 150 HRDs Got Together in Paris to Celebrate Achievements, Discuss Current Challenges and Devise an Action Plan Cyrene (Laico) Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais) "Data Driven" Foreign Aid and "Digital Development" Strategies: Are we disrupting disenfranchisement - or scaling It? L'Escale (Laico) Improving the Net: Applying UNESCO’s internet universality R.O.A.M indicators for evidence-based policy-making Carthage 3 (Laico)

5:15pm BST

What(went)'sApp at the Brazilian elections? Oya 3 (Laico) Responsible Investing 101: Investor action on human rights in the digital era Village Stage (Laico) Tiplines Today Elydhafa (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00am BST

Reverse-Engineering an RFP: Making Beneficiaries the Boss Dougga (Laico)

10:30am BST

Dynamics of Doing Research in Closed Societies: What we can learn from audience research from online exiled media L'Escale (Laico) Know Thy Enemy: Narrative framing, storytelling, and tech in the disinformation age Oya 2 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Global Citizen Laico Buffet Restaurant

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Asia Palais Cafe / Dining Tent

2:15pm BST

It Always Feels like Somebody's Watching You: The impact of U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance on journalists Village Stage (Laico) Visual Investigations at the New York Times: Innovations in Truth Telling Adean (Palais)

3:45pm BST

Information Expansion in North Korea: Current efforts and challenges Leptis (Laico) The Ranking Digital Rights 2019 Corporate Accountability Index: Which companies have improved their respect for your rights? Adean (Palais)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Connected investigations: Building an adaptive ecosystem for human rights documentation Utique (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Tunis +13¾: From the Tunis Agenda to RightsCon Tunis, it’s been a lifetime of internet governance Caspian (Palais) Causing an UPROAR! over internet freedom at the Universal Periodic Review Utique (Laico) Tech Demos: Protecting rights and achieving the SDGs Elydhafa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

SWOTing the Christchuch Call Carthage 1 (Laico) Where There Is Burnout There Is No Innovation: Managing stressors for a better physical and mental health Adean (Palais) Doing Data Journalism Without Data: Against all odds, the "Yemeni Data Journalism Network" Leptis (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)