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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This session is designed to help independent exiled media find solutions to a more resilient and sustainable future. These media groups are exiled by their home country due to conflict or censorship and are forced to (re-)locate and operate from foreign countries. These media are unique in their access within the country of origin and the stories they publish addressing human rights related themes. Yet, they face many challenges. Following a meeting among representatives of 12 exiled media organizations (including, among others, media for Iran, Sudan, China, Eritrea and more) in February 2019, a set of priority issues, opportunities and threats have been identified that exiled media face. Some are specific to individual cases, others are shared across the board. Priorities identified include: - Funding and business development; - Challenges (& opportunities) of distance reporting; - Online & offline security threats; - The role of tech. Organized by representatives of several exiled media groups, we aim to analyze these priority issues and next steps moving forward in the quest of building a resilient and sustainable future for exiled media across the globe together with key stakeholders, including: government, tech companies, funders and the media development sector.
