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Tid: 01.02.2024

PROGRAM

09.00-10.00 Rights & Resistance: How to Turn the Tide

Keynote speech - Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of international development

No democracy without a strong civil society - Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian People's Aid

The greatest threat to democracy is not autocracy; it's hypocrisy - Iyad El-Baghdadi, Founder and President, Kawaakibi Center

Climate change impacts our rights - Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Indigenous Rights Activist

10.00-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-12.00 Authoritarian Powers on the Rise: The State of the Open Society

Progress is possible - Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General, Norad

Can reversed rights be reclaimed? Confronting the downward shift in civic space. CIVICUS report presentation - Lysa John, Secretary General, CIVICUS

Shaken, not deterred: Africans continue to have faith in democratic governance. How can it be sustained, deepened? - Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, Co-founder and Board Chair, Afrobarometer

The declining success-rate of non-violent movements and what to do about it? - Marianne Dahl, Senior Researcher, PRIO

Panel: Backlash of rights – what should be the role of international democracy promoters?

Lysa John, Secretary General, CIVICUS, Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian People’s Aid, Marianne Dahl, Senior Researcher, PRIO, Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General, Norad.
Moderator: Haakon Gjerløw, Senior Researcher, PRIO.

12.00-12.50 Lunch
12.50-13.50 Fighting the Backlash of Women’s Rights

Let women and girls lead - Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAids

Education for positive change, a part of the equation - Joanna Herat, Acting Chief of Section for Health and Education, UNESCO

From Moral Outrage to Action - Ayesha Wolasmal, Independent Consultant

Panel discussion: Navigating the backlash

Winnie Byanyima, Joanna Herat, Mamta Murthi,Vice President for Human Development, World Bank.
Moderator: Ayesha Wolasmal

13.50-14.20 Coffee break
14.20-15.00 Securing Land Rights for People & Planet

The power and potential of inclusive conservation: The approach of the Global Environment Facility - Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF)

Panel discussion: Are communal land rights making a comeback?

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Hindou Ibrahim, Lars Løvold, Special Advisor, Rainforest Foundation Norway.
Moderator: Nonette Royo, Executive Director, Tenure Facility

15.00-16.00 Ukraine – Building an Open Society in the Shadows of War

Keynote speech - Mustafa Nayyem, Head of the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine

The future of democracy in Ukraine - Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University

The All-Out War on Truth - Sevgil Musaieva, Chief Editor, Ukrainska Pravda

Reporting during war: Independent press and information warfare in Ukraine - Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda and Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General Norad

Publisert 16.07.2024
Publisert 16.07.2024
Oppdatert 16.07.2024
Oppdatert 16.07.2024