10:00 – 10:40 – Opening
session
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H.E. Audrey
Azoulay, UNESCO
Director-General
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Video message by H.E. António
Guterres, United Nations
Secretary-General
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Keynote address by A.G.
Sulzberger, Chairman and
Publisher of The New
York Times
Performance by J. Ivy, Grammy
award-winning spoken word poet
10:40-11:30 - Speaking out for our
rights
The first panel features those who,
because they had freedom of expression,
were able to raise their voices on
various human rights and contribute to
changing behaviors and societies.
Remarks by Volker
Türk, High Commissioner for
Human Rights (Video Message)
Panel opening by Hamida
Aman, Afghan Media manager and
founder of Women’s Radio Begum
Remarks by Felipe
Neto, communicator and digital
influencer
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Agnès Callamard,
Secretary-General, Amnesty
International
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Masih Alinejad, journalist
and women’s rights campaigner
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Rana Ayyub, journalist and
columnist, Washington
Post
Moderated by Maher
Nasser, Director, Outreach
Division,
UN Department of Global Communications
11:30-12:30 - The institutions that
defend human rights
The second panel is an opportunity to
recognize the work of the institutions
that we have built over the past 30
years as guardians and defenders of our
rights
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Ilze Brands Kehris,
Assistant Secretary-General for
Human Rights, UN OHCHR
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Dunja Mijatovic, Human
Rights Commissioner, Council of
Europe
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Margarette May Macaulay,
President, the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights
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Hassatou Ba-Minte, Africa
Programme Officer, International
Federation for Human Rights, FIDH
Moderated by Antonio
Zapulla, CEO, Thomson Reuters
Foundation
12:30-14:30 - Lunch break
14:30-15:00 - Multilateralism and
freedom of expression: A joint
commitment from across the UN
Presidents of representative bodies of
the United Nations, will present a joint
statement showing how multilateralism
and freedom of expression are both
essential to ensuring that individuals
and communities have a voice in shaping
their societies. Moderated by Bahia
Tahzib-Lie, Human
Rights Ambassador of The Netherlands
15:00-16:00 - Journalism to reveal and
counter human rights violations
How to ensure a plurality of voices and
opinions, how to make challenges visible
and heard around the world: journalists
explain how investigative journalism on
human rights violations can contribute
to action being taken to improve the
human rights situation.
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Sergiy Tomilenko,
President, the National Union of
Journalists in Ukraine
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David Rohde, Executive
Editor, New
Yorker.com
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Liliane Landor, Director of
the BBC
World Service
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Jose Zamora, Chief
communications and impact officer,
Exile
Moderated by Hoda
Osman, Executive Editor, Arij
The panel will be followed by a Q&A
session
16:00-16:30 - Joint Declaration from
Special Mandate Holders on Media Freedom
and Democracy
This panel will bring together the
special mandates on freedom of
expression from the UN and regional
inter-governmental organizations on the
occasion of the 30th anniversary of
World Press Freedom Day.
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Irene Khan, UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
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Ourveena Gereesha Topsy-Sonoo,
African Union Special Rapporteur on
Freedom of Expression and Access to
Information
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Pedro
Vaca Villareal, Special
Rapporteur of the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights
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Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE
Representative on Freedom of the
Media
Moderated by Barbora
Bukovska, Senior Director for
Law and Policy, ARTICLE 19
16:40-17:40 - Press freedom, the threats
to journalists and the future of the
media
The last panel alerts us to the threats
that journalists face, discusses the
state of press freedom and the future of
media.
Keynote address by Samantha
Power, USAID Administrator
Panel opening by Khadija
Patel, Head of Programme,
International Fund on Public Interest
Media
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Zoe Titus, President,
Global Forum on Media Development;
CEO of the Namibia Media Trust
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Jodie Ginsberg, President,
Committee to Protect Journalists
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Drew Sullivan Co-founder,
OCCRP and Reporters Shield
Moderated by Omar
Jimenez, CNN
The panel will be followed by a Q&A
session
17:40-18:00 - Closing remarks and
handover
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Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant
Director-General for Communication
and Information, UNESCO