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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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Hanene Zbiss

Inkyfada
Investigative journalist
Tunisia

Hanene Zbiss is a Tunisian investigative journalist, trainer and teacher of investigative journalism. In 2014, she won the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of Expression (category/ investigation). And in 2015, she was nominated for the Global Shining Light Award.
She is a founder of the Tunisian Association for Investigative Journalism (TAIJ).

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

6:30pm BST

RightsCon Opening Reception Palais des Congrès Terrace

10:30am BST

Seeing through the rubble: using crowdsourcing, data and field work to investigate civilian deaths in Raqqa, Syria Village Stage (Laico) Terrorist online content regulations in Europe and beyond: changing the platform liability paradigm? Leptis (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Improving the Net: Applying UNESCO’s internet universality R.O.A.M indicators for evidence-based policy-making Carthage 3 (Laico)

9:00am BST

A multi-stakeholder dialogue on internet platforms, sexual content, and child protection Utique (Laico)

10:30am BST

Rights and Ethics: When technology knows how you feel Hannibal (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Who wants to be a terrorist? The radicalisation of free speech control through measures against terrorist content online Oya 2 (Laico) Visual Investigations at the New York Times: Innovations in Truth Telling Adean (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Online Media and Misinformation: You ask, youth answers Leptis (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

10:30am BST

Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico) How Can We Help Quality Journalism in the MENA Region Be Viable? Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Doing Data Journalism Without Data: Against all odds, the "Yemeni Data Journalism Network" Leptis (Laico) Fact-checking Content Made by Users in the Age of Social Media and the Amount of Fake News in It Limes (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)