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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Nighat Dad

Digital Rights Foundation
Founder
Pakistan

Nighat Dad is the Founder and executive director of the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF), Pakistan, She has run the DRF since it was established in 2012, and has been a practicing lawyer since 2007, where she worked on civil, criminal and now cyber litigation.

Nighat has been an affiliate for Internet and Society at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University from 2016 to 2018, USA. Prior to this, she completed a certification in Internet Governance from the Diplo Foundation in 2011. She was TIME Magazine’s next generation leader in 2015, and received the Tulip Award from Dutch Govt as well as the Atlantic Council Freedom Award in 2016. She was a TED Fellow in 2017, and is on the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Young Global Leaders 2018 list. Nighat has also established regions first cyber harassment helpline in Pakistan in 2016.

My Speakers Sessions

RightsCon Tunis 2019

Nighat Dad

My Speakers Sessions

10:30am BST

2:15pm BST

5:15pm BST

9:00am BST

2:15pm BST

9:00am BST

10:30am BST

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