Does Venezuela Deserve to be on the UN Human Rights Council? - The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

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To Be Confirmed

Speakers and Participants

Luis Almagro

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

María-Alejandra Aristeguieta-Álvarez

Ambassador-designate in Switzerland of Venezuela’s interim President Juan Guaido

Irwin Cotler

International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada

Antonio Ledezma

Venezuelan opposition leader, political prisoner who escaped in November 2017

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