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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Badr Elbendary

Open Society Foundations
Program Specialist
Tunis Governorate, Tunisia

opensocietyfoundaitons.org

I am a program specialist at the Civil Society Engagement Program, under the MENA program of Open Society Foundations. He supports the work of OSF on independent media, policy research & advocacy, and community organizing. I'm interested in meeting with organizations in these three fields and learn about their work.

Background:
over 8 years of experience as an economics journalist and 3 years of experience in policy research with an MA degree in International Relations focussed on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, from Syracuse University.
I am a survivor of a severe injury in both eyes that caused me permanent visual impairment in the context of January 2011 Egyptian uprising. As a survivor, I became committed to the cause of building sustainable peace and support those who got harmed and still have faith in peaceful coexistence.