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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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Sumaiya Ismail

American Bar Association, Center for Human Rights
Program Officer
Washington, DC

ambar.org/justicedefenders

Sumaiya supports the MENA division of the Justice Defenders Program within the ABA's Center for Human Rights.

The Justice Defenders Program defends human rights advocates from harassment. We take down legal barriers to advocacy, mobilize the global legal community, and hold governments accountable for restricting human rights activities. Our program enables advocates to work freely.

9:00am BST

Building the First Global Perceptions of Gender and Online Violence Leptis (Laico) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Tech Demos: Open (source) for business Caspian (Palais) Combating Cybercrime Laws in the Middle East and North Africa Region Cyrene (Laico) When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Finding a way forward when competing rights fail to protect the most vulnerable in our society Elydhafa (Laico) The State of Internet Shutdowns in 2019 L'Escale (Laico)

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) Terrorist online content regulations in Europe and beyond: changing the platform liability paradigm? Leptis (Laico) Making Civic Tech Work for Democracy: Lessons from Tunisia, Nigeria, and Taiwan Biscay (Palais) Protecting the Integrity of the Global Information Space Celtic (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Women’s right to artistic freedom of expression in the digital age Jelsa (Laico) Future-Proofing Human Rights Documentation: Tools for Protecting Endangered Evidence Oya 1 (Laico)

1:00pm BST

The Benevolent Accomplices of Authoritarian Regimes on the Internet Carthage 1 (Laico) Social Media and Conflict: Research and product case studies Caspian (Palais) Help We Are Under Attack! A peek into the community of rapid responders Carthage 2 (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) Are we seriously going to trade away our privacy like cars, rice, or bananas? Carthage 3 (Laico) Internet Regulation - The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: A model for regulatory effectiveness Oya 1 (Laico) Strategically Litigating Internet Shutdowns and Cybercrime Laws in Africa: Reflecting on steps taken and the road ahead Oya 2 (Laico) Strategic Litigation against Network Shutdowns-Successes and Challenges Leptis (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Collective Solutions for Catalyzing Change to Address Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An interactive workshop Carthage 2 (Laico) Tracker versus Trackee: The chasm between individuals’ understanding of online tracking and the real data collection (and processing) power of trackers and what can be done to bridge the divide Oya 2 (Laico) International Protocol for Open Source Investigations Amilcar (Laico) How Tech Firms Enable Human Rights Violations in Palestine Jelsa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais) Cyber warfare and defense in a tumultuous Middle East Dougga (Laico)

9:00am BST

Returning Protest to the People: A campaign to destigmatise protesters Village Stage (Laico) A multi-stakeholder dialogue on internet platforms, sexual content, and child protection Utique (Laico) Technology in Conflict: Assessing platform companies’ human rights responsibility and accountability in high-risk settings El Jem (Laico) Developing a Digital Rights Model Law for Africa Amilcar (Laico) One size does NOT fit all: Diverse threat models across North Africa call for more refined digital security training and tools Elyssa (Laico) How you can start using data analytics to grow your organizations impact and resources...tomorrow! Adean (Palais)

10:30am BST

Dynamics of Doing Research in Closed Societies: What we can learn from audience research from online exiled media L'Escale (Laico) One Cross-Border Treaty to Rule Them All: The Budapest Convention Protocol Elydhafa (Laico) Does Social Media Deserve a Sin Tax? The impact of Internet service levies on human rights and sustainable development in Africa Utique (Laico)

12:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: MENA Laico Side Restaurant Safety of Female Journalists Online: #SOFJO panel Celtic (Palais) Defending Democracy from Foreign Interference in a Digital Age Caspian (Palais)

1:00pm BST

Regional Lunch: Africa Laico Side Restaurant Regional Lunch: Asia Palais Cafe / Dining Tent Regional Lunch: Eastern Europe/Central Asia Laico Lower Community Village Intersection of technology, internet, and sexuality across gender and minority rights in Uganda Leptis (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) Violence and Harassment: Navigating the hazardous online world for women in North Africa Leptis (Laico) Collective Intelligence Approaches to Expanding Violations Monitoring in Conflict Zones Biscay (Palais) Putting Users First! The responsibility of tech SMEs in the Global South to respect human rights Carthage 3 (Laico) Shaping Multilaterals: How civil society can influence and participate multilateral processes such as the UN or the WTO Elydhafa (Laico)

3:45pm BST

Combating harassment of women journalists in extremism-ridden online spaces Utique (Laico) Putting Human-Rights based Cybersecurity Strategies into Practice: A focus on Africa Elydhafa (Laico)

5:15pm BST

Election Watch: Addressing information freedom on the internet and the dangerous trend of internet shutdowns Carthage 2 (Laico) Business and Human Rights in Africa and South-Asia: Network shutdown and data disclosure requests under conflicting legal frameworks El Jem (Laico) Old Crisis, Novel Means: Applying new tools to encourage company action in support of civic freedoms and human rights defenders Limes (Laico) Business for Better Cybersecurity: How the private sector can promote economic growth and digital rights Oya 1 (Laico) Tech Demos: Getting Chatty – Rethinking secure communications Cyrene (Laico) How Small Countries Survive: A human rights dilemma with respect to asymmetrical disinformation war Jelsa (Laico)

7:00pm BST

Official RightsCon Party Laico Pool Deck

9:00pm BST

Party in the Penthouse 13th Floor (Laico)

7:30am BST

Yoga Laico Pool Deck

9:00am BST

Kunyamazisha: Gagging online free speech in Sub-Saharan Africa Celtic (Palais) Democratising religious discourse through technology Limes (Laico) How to Impact the Global Human Rights Agenda: Recommendations from the UN High-level Panel Carthage 1 (Laico) Online Dissidence in the Global South El Jem (Laico)

10:30am BST

Countering hate, preserving free expression Caspian (Palais) Mapping the Response to ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women in Morocco and Tunisia: Grassroots-level action research Leptis (Laico) Aligning cybercrime laws with international human rights standards Carthage 3 (Laico) How Can We Help Quality Journalism in the MENA Region Be Viable? Celtic (Palais)

12:00pm BST

Protecting Freedom of Expression in a Complex World: The role of courts and tribunals L'Escale (Laico) The anatomy of tech-related Violence Against Women Cyrene (Laico) If I Can't Find It, It's Not the Law: Toward minimum standards for access to human rights law and information Carthage 2 (Laico) Tunis +13¾: From the Tunis Agenda to RightsCon Tunis, it’s been a lifetime of internet governance Caspian (Palais)

1:00pm BST

Making Tech Digestible: Adventures of digital security trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa Leptis (Laico) Agent Provocateur: The threat of government agents impersonating journalists Celtic (Palais)

2:15pm BST

Addressing Hate Speech Online: Recipes for a rights-based approach Celtic (Palais) Tackling Terrorist Use of the Internet: A roadmap to holistic and human rights compliant solutions L'Escale (Laico) Protecting digital communities in democracies from the global reach of authoritarian countries Oya 1 (Laico)

4:00pm BST

RightsCon Tunis Closing Ceremonies The BeeHive (Palais)