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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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Lisa Maracani

Amnesty International
Research and policy advisor, Human rights defenders
London, England

Human rights defenders are my bag!
Have worked also at: Peace Brigades International, Christian Aid, Amnesty Italy.
My last project: Targeting Solidarity: Criminalization and harassment of people defending refugee and migrant rights in Northern France, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/france-police-harassing-intimidating-and-even-using-violence-against-people-helping-refugees/

My Friends

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) Working it out - journalism in the digital area : why we need an international pledge for Information and Democracy now more than ever Jelsa (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (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)

3:45pm BST

Landmark: The Global State of Surveillance Tech - In Conversation with UN Special Rapporteurs The BeeHive (Palais)

5:15pm BST

The Incomplete Guide to Harassment Campaigns; Focusing on Harassment Outside of the Global North Limes (Laico)

9:00am BST

Returning Protest to the People: A campaign to destigmatise protesters Village Stage (Laico)

10:30am BST

"Challenge Hate” - Countering “hate speech” against LGBTQ people in MENA Amilcar (Laico) Queering the Resistance: Movement building across digital terrain Caspian (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Latin America Laico Lower Community Village Surveilling Dissent: Online spy mechanisms used by police against protestors L'Escale (Laico)

1:00pm BST

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A Dark Place film screening Celtic (Palais) Intersection of technology, internet, and sexuality across gender and minority rights in Uganda Leptis (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Violence and Harassment: Navigating the hazardous online world for women in North Africa Leptis (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Combating harassment of women journalists in extremism-ridden online spaces Utique (Laico) Threat Modeling for Activists in Latin America Caspian (Palais) From Brazil to Africa, fighting for human rights and open infrastructures in the global south Amilcar (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Civil Society's Pushback Against Closing Space Biscay (Palais)

9:00am BST

Knocking Out Impunity for Violence: Defending civic space in a time of conflict Carthage 2 (Laico)

My Moderators Sessions

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)