16th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, U.N. Opening, Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Victor Navarro
Exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and former political prisoner
Speakers and Participants
Ali Ehsassi
Member of Canadian Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee
Veronica Tsepkalo
Exiled Belarusian opposition figure and chair of the Belarus Women’s Foundation
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
British-Australian academic, formerly held as a diplomatic hostage in Iran
Toribia Lero Quispe
Bolivian indigenous leader from the Sura Nation, member of the Bolivian Legislative Assembly
Yunior García Aguilera
Cuban playwright and democracy activist
Alireza Akhondi
Swedish MP campaigning for the EU to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity
Dr. Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Mayor of Frankfurt, former political prisoner in Iran
Genoveva Tisheva
Vice Chair, U.N Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Job Sikhala
Zimbabwean opposition leader held for 595 days in pre-trial detention
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