International lawyer, diplomat and Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer delivers opening remarks at the 16th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy
Exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and former political prisoner
Member of Canadian Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee
Exiled Belarusian opposition figure and chair of the Belarus Women’s Foundation
British-Australian academic, formerly held as a diplomatic hostage in Iran
Bolivian indigenous leader from the Sura Nation, member of the Bolivian Legislative Assembly
Cuban playwright and democracy activist
Swedish MP campaigning for the EU to list the IRGC as a terrorist entity
Mayor of Frankfurt, former political prisoner in Iran
Vice Chair, U.N Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Zimbabwean opposition leader held for 595 days in pre-trial detention
Jacqueline Kasha, a Ugandan activist and founder of ‘Freedom and Roam Uganda’ (FARUG), a lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersexual rights organization in a country where homosexuality is criminalized, addresses the 3rd Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see below for full prepared remarks. Full remarks Karin S. Woldseth: Meseveni set
Memory Banda, leading Malawian rights activist fighting to end child marriage and harmful practices against girls, recipient of the International Youth Student Award and the UN’s Young Activist Award, addresses the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy — see quotes below, followed by full prepared remarks. On
Niemat Ahmadi, survivor of the Darfur Genocide, Sudanese women’s rights defender, and founder and president of Darfur Women Action Group, addressed the 17th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on February 18th, 2025. Full Remarks: Good Afternoon, everyone, I am standing before you today, feeling incredibly dismayed that,
Antonietta Ledezma, daughter of Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, in jail on politically-motivated charges, addresses the 8th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see quotes below, followed by full prepared remarks. On her father’s arrest: “The last 15th of February of 2015, 120 armed policemen smashed into my father’s