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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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Virginia Pérez-Alonso

Público
Editor in chief
Madrid Area, Spain
Websitepublico.es
Editor-in-chief at Público (Spain), chair of Platform for the Freedom of Information (PLI), member / vicepresident of IPI’s Executive Board. Happy to talk about journalism innovation, newsrooms managing, newsrooms transformation, journalistic processes, transparency in journalism, freedom of speech, women and journalism. Twitter: @virginiapalonso

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Wednesday, June 12
 

9:00am BST

Let's See the Evidence! Algorithmic decisions in real life - where and how are they used? El Jem (Laico) Responding to Mass Atrocities in the Digital Age: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Myanmar Hannibal (Laico) Citizens or Users? Building the global resistance against platform monopolies Jelsa (Laico) Big Tech and the Future of Journalism: Reinventing news and information in the age of Google and Facebook Oya 2 (Laico)

12:00pm BST

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

1:00pm BST

Digital Rights Monopoly Hannibal (Laico)

2:15pm BST

Ending Impunity for Online Violence Against Women in Politics Elydhafa (Laico) Fundraising in the Post-Election Era: How to respond to unpredictable events and prepare for them in the future. Carthage 1 (Laico)

3:45pm BST

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

5:15pm BST

Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change? Celtic (Palais) Combating Fake News: Exploring approaches for protecting the messenger and the message Caspian (Palais)