Speakers

Iran

Genoveva Tisheva

Vice Chair, U.N Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Iran

Ali Ehsassi

Member of Canadian Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee

Iran

Alireza Akhondi

Swedish MP campaigning for the EU to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity

China

Rushan Abbas

Founder of Campaign for Uyghurs, sister of political prisoner Dr. Gulshan Abbas

Iran

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Iranian-born Canadian human rights advocate and co-founder of Stop Child Executions

Saudi Arabia

Ali Al Ahmed

Saudi scholar, writer, public speaker and expert on Saudi political affairs

Ukraine

Olga Aivazovska

Forcibly displaced civil society leader & advocate for war crimes tribunal against Putin

Syria

Hassan Akkad

Award-winning filmmaker & human rights activist tortured by Assad

Syria

Waad al-Kateab

Syrian refugee and award-winning documentary filmmaker on the conflict in Syria

Saudi Arabia

Areej al-Sadhan

Activist, sister of Saudi political prisoner Abdulrahman al-Sadhan

Syria

Abdalaziz Alhamza

Award-winning Syrian journalist, co-founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently

FGM

Nimco Ali

Award-winning women’s rights activist and campaigner against FGM

Iran

Masih Alinejad

Award-winning Iranian freelance journalist and creator of ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ project encouraging women to post photos without headscarves

Venezuela

Luis Almagro

Secretary General of the Organization of American States, former Foreign Minister of Uruguay