Floyd Abrams
Lawyer and free speech expert
Speakers
Iran
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Iranian-born Canadian human rights advocate and co-founder of Stop Child Executions
Burma
Soe Aung
Soe Aung is a Burmese dissident activist who was involved in the 1988 people’s uprising in Burma and has remained active outside of his country now for 20 years campaigning for freedom.
Ellen Bork
Human Rights Activist and Writer
Political Prisoners
Irwin Cotler
International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada
Caroline Fourest
Journalist formerly with Charlie Hebdo
Burma
Ko Bo Kyi
Burmese activist and former political prisoner, founder of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners
Pavel Marozau
Belarusian and Estonian civic activist, media manager, and web producer
Brett Schaefer
Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at the Heritage Foundation
Esra’a Al Shafei
Dissident blogger from Bahrein
Parvez Sharma
Award-winning filmmaker and LGBT activist
Dominique Sopo
President SOS Racisme
Maran Turner
Executive director, Freedom Now
Bart Woord
Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Liberal Youth
Angela Wu
Scholar and practitioner of international religious liberty law