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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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DA

Dina Ahmad

Holistic Safety & Security Program officer
www.mesahatfoundation.org
Egypt

meahatfoundation.org/en/holisticsecurity

Mesahat is a foundation working in Egypt and Sudan on LGBTIQ++ Rights, since 2015. We focus on Holistic Security (Digital, Psychological and Reallocation) as well as Capacity Building for LGBTIQ activists and change makers, Documentation.

5:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Opening Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)

9:00am BST

Improving Cooperation to Advance Human Rights Online Amilcar (Laico) Cloudy with a chance of cybernorms? Dougga (Laico) Combating Cybercrime Laws in the Middle East and North Africa Region Cyrene (Laico) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

10:30am BST

Global State of Data Protection Carthage 3 (Laico) 2018 Human Rights Heroes Awards The BeeHive (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Landmark: Philanthropy in the 21st Century The BeeHive (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Tumblr, Porn, Sex Work and Queer Lives on a Healthy Internet: What happens when a platform decides to kill communities? L'Escale (Laico) Data, Technology, and the Global Gender Gap Carthage 3 (Laico) Is Open-Source Your Unicorn? Dialogue on the sustainability, data security, and ethics of human rights apps Biscay (Palais) What(went)'sApp at the Brazilian elections? Oya 3 (Laico) Cyber warfare and defense in a tumultuous Middle East Dougga (Laico)

6:45pm BST

RightsCon Movie Night Oya 1 (Laico)

9:00pm BST

Mawjoudin and Access Now Diversity Party Bridge Bar (Laico)

9:00am BST

Granny & the Robots: Sex, violence and care - Why human rights matter Jelsa (Laico) The Feminist Digisec Network and the Importance of a Feminist Digital Security Carthage 2 (Laico) Developing a Digital Rights Model Law for Africa Amilcar (Laico) Reverse-Engineering an RFP: Making Beneficiaries the Boss Dougga (Laico)

10:30am BST

"Challenge Hate” - Countering “hate speech” against LGBTQ people in MENA Amilcar (Laico) One Cross-Border Treaty to Rule Them All: The Budapest Convention Protocol Elydhafa (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Balancing Data Protection and Access to Information: Internet RTBF case Utique (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Beyond Dating Apps: LGBTQ people in other online platforms Oya 3 (Laico) Crossing the Border in the Cloud: A Latin American perspective on lawful access laws Amilcar (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Big Data Strikes Back: Building the data protection rebellion Dougga (Laico) Threat Modeling for Activists in Latin America Caspian (Palais)

5:15pm BST

Lightning Talks: Fighting censorship, surveillance, and disinformation around the Globe The BeeHive (Palais) Complicit or Neutral? Social media content moderation in conflict areas L'Escale (Laico) The fight for digital privacy in the face of authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism Village Stage (Laico)

9:00am BST

An Innovative Equation for Improved Local Governance: Behavioral sciences + digital tools = new meaningful civic spaces Leptis (Laico)

10:30am BST

It's time for a bill of data rights Oya 1 (Laico) Moving Beyond the Problem: Pathways to meaningful consent online Elyssa (Laico) More Than Words Can Say: Localization as a human rights issue Jelsa (Laico)