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Befekadu Hailu Techane

Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD)
Executive Director
Ethiopia
Websitehttps://cardeth.org/about/
Befeqadu Hailu Techane is an Ethiopian writer, activist, and blogger. He is a cofounder of the renowned Zone 9 Bloggers group that were arrested in 2014 due to their blogging activities after being accused of inciting violence through writing. He has been the editor of various newspapers, and currently he is the executive director of CARD, a civil society organization he cofounded. His published novella titled Children and their Parents was a winner of Bill Burt Award for African Literature in 2012. His other awards for his participation in the Zone 9 Bloggers include the Committee to Protects Journalist's International Press Freedom Award, the Reporters Without Borders Award for Citizen Journalists, and the Hellman/Hammet Human Rights Award.
Wednesday, June 12
 

9:00am BST

Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Finding a way forward when competing rights fail to protect the most vulnerable in our society Elydhafa (Laico) Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

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) Fighting for Human Rights and Democracy in the Digital World: New tools, new actors – How to be more efficient? Village Stage (Laico)
 
Thursday, June 13
 

9:00am BST

Feeding Trolls in the Marketplace of Ideas Biscay (Palais) Developing a Digital Rights Model Law for Africa Amilcar (Laico)

10:30am BST

Rights and Ethics: When technology knows how you feel Hannibal (Laico) Separating human rights activism from regime change Cyrene (Laico) Measuring internet shutdowns El Jem (Laico)

2:15pm BST

How to build civil society cross-expertise in response to disinformation Carthage 1 (Laico)