Colette Braeckman, member of the Editorial Board of the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and expert on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, addresses the 5th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see below for full prepared remarks.
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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
Nguyen Van Dai, an exiled Vietnamese pro-democracy activist and lawyer who spent four years in Vietnamese prison for spreading propaganda against the state, addresses the 11th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see quotes below, followed by full prepared remarks. On lack of civil liberties in Vietnam: “Discussing
A panel including Chinese-Canadian dissident whose father, Wang Bingzhang, is a prisoner of conscience in China, Ti-Anna Wang; leading Chinese dissident and pro-democracy activist, Yang Jianli; Uyghur rights activist and Chairman of the ‘Norway Uyghur Committee,’ Bahtiyar Omer; Tibetan dissident and founder of ‘High Peaks Pure Earth,’ a website that
Björn Stritzel, chief correspondent at BILD, moderated a discussion with Evgenia Kara-Murza and Vladimir Kara-Murza at the 17th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on February 18th, 2025. Evgenia Kara-Murza is the advocacy director of the Free Russia Foundation, defending anti-war activists, dissidents and political prisoners. Vladimir Kara-Murza is
Afghan-Iranian Taekwondo athlete and advocate for women’s rights in Afghanistan, Marzieh Hamidi, recieved the International Women’s Rights Award at the 18th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Click here to view the presentation of the award by Sophia Aram. Full Remarks: I am not here to tell you