SPEAKERS AT THE 2019 GENEVA SUMMIT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
Hakima el Haite, President of Liberal International, Former Minister of Environment for Morocco
James Kirchik – Journalist, author, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute
Juan Carlos Guiterrez – Human rights lawyer, President of the World Jurist Association’s Human Rights Institute
Diego Arria – Advocate for Venezuelan human rights, former Ambassador to the UN and President of the Security Council
Felix Maradiaga – Nicaraguan opposition leader targeted with false criminal charges
Ensaf Haidar (with children Najwa, Tirad and Miriyam Badawi) – Human rights activist, wife of Saudi political prisoner Raif Badawi
Michael Levitt – Canadian MP, Chair of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Ketty Nivyabandi – Poet and exiled Burundian democracy activist, led a movement of women-only protest
Nurcan Baysal – Award-winning Kurdish journalist and activist, recently detained by Turkey
Abdalaziz Alhamza – Co-founder and spokesperson for Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a citizen journalist group reporting Syrian war news and human rights abuses by the Islamic state
Nimco Ali – Co-Founder of Daughters of Eve, advocate for women and girls at risk for female genital mutilation, survivor
Nguyen Van Dai – Vietnamese human rights lawyer just released from prison
Vicente de Lima – brother of imprisoned Philippines Senator Leila de Lima
Richard Ratcliffe – Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, British-Iranian citizen imprisoned in Iran on spurious charges
Yang Jianli – President of Initiatives for China, former political prisoner in China
Dhondup Wangchen – Tibetan filmmaker and activist, jailed 6 years in Chinese prison
Dr. Elham Manea – Professor at the University of Zurich
Ambassador Alfred H. Moses – Chair of United Nations Watch
