Agenda
February 17, 2010
Location: Hyatt Regency, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
| 3:00-5:00 | Joint Working Group meeting (for organizers and HRDs only) |
| Introductions | |
| Review of draft Action Plan | |
| 6:00-9:00 | Reception and Dinner Hosted by the Embassy of Canada to the United States (by invitation only) |
| Welcome: | William D. Zabel, Chair, Human Rights First |
| Ambassador Gary Doer, Embassy of Canada to the United States |
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| Remarks: | Dr. Alejandro Toledo, Former President, Peru |
| Special Video Presentation: Vaclav Havel, Former President, Czech Republic | |
Day 1, February 18, 2010
Location: The Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001
| 9:00 | Shuttle Bus from Hyatt Regency to National Security Council |
| 10:00-11:00 | Meeting at the National Security Council (by invitation only) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Registration at the Newseum |
| Location: | The Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington D.C., 20001 |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Working Lunch |
| Moderator: | William Taft IV, Chair, Freedom House, United States |
| Discussants: | Arnold Tsunga, Africa Programme Coordinator, International Commission of Jurists, Zimbabwe |
| Yuri Dzhibladze, President, Center for the Development of Democracy, and Human Rights, Russia | |
| Kamala Chandrakirana, Secretary General, National Commission on Violence against Women; Founder, JARI Indonesia, Indonesia | |
| Bahey eldin Hassan, Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights, Egypt | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Session 1 – Shackling the Defenders: Modern Threats to Freedom of Association (more) |
| Moderator: | Hina Jilani, former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders, Pakistan |
| Discussants: | Oleg Kozlovsky, Oborona, Russia |
| Carlos Ponce, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy, Venezuela | |
| Julius Kaggwa, Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Uganda | |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break |
| 3:00-4:30 | Session 2 – Silencing the Critics: Freedom of Expression under Fire |
| Moderator: | Dr. Agnes Callamard, Executive Director, ARTICLE 19, United Kingdom |
| Discussants: | Dr. Hamidah Marican, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia |
| Gamal Eid, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Egypt |
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| Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China, United States |
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| Iryna Vidanova, Editor-in-Chief, 34 Multimedia Magazine, Belarus |
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| Maziar Bahari, Journalist, Iran | |
| 4:30-5:30 | Working Group Summary Session (for organizers and HRDs only) |
| 6:00-7:30 | Reception Hosted by the Embassy of the United Kingdom to the United States (by invitation only) |
| Location: | 3100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW |
| Remarks: | Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Embassy of the United Kingdom to the United States |
| Mehrangiz Kar, Iranian Women's Movement | |
| Azar Nafisi, Author, Iran |
Day 2, February 19, 2010
| 9:00 | Shuttle Bus from Hyatt Regency to Library of Congress |
| 10:30-11:30 | Address by Tenzin Gyatso, The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet, Upon Acceptance of the Democracy Service Medal of the National Endowment for Democracy (by invitation only) |
| 11:30 | Shuttle Bus to Newseum |
| 12:00-1:30 | Working Lunch |
| Statement Submitted by Yevgeny Zhovtis, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights |
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| Remarks: | Frank LaRue, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Guatemala |
| 1:30-3:00 | Session 3 - The Way Forward: Views from Civil Society (more) |
| Moderator: | Elisa Massimino, President and CEO, Human Rights First, United States |
| Discussants: | Julia Neiva, Founder, Conectas Human Rights, Brazil |
| Sima Samar, Afghan Human Rights Commission, Afghanistan | |
| Kaitira Kandjii, Regional Director, Media Institute of Southern Africa, Namibia | |
| Rafendi Djamin, Coordinator, Indonesia's Human Rights Working Group, Indonesia | |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Session 4 - Affirming Fundamental Freedoms: The Role of Democracies (more) |
| Moderator: | Jennifer Windsor, Executive Director, Freedom House, United States |
| Discussants: | Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State, United States |
| Maria Leissner, Ambassador for Democracy, Sweden | |
| María del Luján Flores, Ambassador Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the Organization of American States |
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| Dr. Wen-Cheng Lin, President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, Taiwan |
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| 5:30-7:00 | Final Joint Working Group Meeting (for organizers and HRDs only) |
| Location: | Hyatt Regency, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC |
| Finalize Action Plan |
