Iraqi refugee in Switzerland and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Youth delegate
Aya Mohammed Abdullah is an Iraqi refugee living in Geneva. She went through Syria and Turkey, before settling in Switzerland in 2017, when she was just 22 years old. In Turkey, she worked extensively with various organizations such as UNICEF, UN Women, IMC and UNHCR, thanks to her talents as a translator. She is a delegate of the Global Youth Advisory Council of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and has been a guest speaker at many events, including the World Economic Forum 2018 in Davos. She is studying international relations at Webster University in Geneva.
Ali
Abu Awwad
Ali Abu Awwad
Palestinian peace activist, founder of Taghyeer National Nonviolence Movement and Roots initiative
Ali Abu Awwad, Palestinian peace activist, founded the Taghyeer (Change) Palestinian National Nonviolence Movement where Palestinians come together through nonviolent identity to address social development needs and at the same time resist occupation. From 2002-9 Awwad toured the world on behalf of Bereaved Families Forum - together with Israeli Robi Damelin who lost a son to the conflict, speaking of the path to reconciliation. Awwad initiated the Karama Nonviolence Center on family-owned land in 2013 and co-founded the "Roots" Palestinian-Israeli conflict transformation initiative (2014).
Caroline
Abu Sa’Da
Caroline Abu Sa’Da
Head of SOS Méditerranée Suisse
After several years working for MSF, Caroline Abu Sa’da is now director of the NGO SOS Méditerranée Switzerland, which is dedicated to rescuing refugees at sea. At MSF, she was Director of the Research Unit on Humanitarian Issues and Practices. She has published extensively on humanitarian action and NGOs.
Laure
Adler
Maryam Al-Khawaja is a Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender, and the founder of Al-Khawaja Consulting where she works as a human rights consultant and trainer. Al-Khawaja is on the Board of the International Service for Human Rights and Urgent Action Fund. She previously served as Co-Director for the Gulf Center for Human Rights and as Acting President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights. Al-Khawaja played an instrumental role in the democratic protests taking place in Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout in February 2011, which triggered a government response of widespread extra judicial killings, arrests, and torture. Due to her work, she has been subjected to assault, threats, defamation campaigns, imprisonment and an unfair trial. Over the past years, Al-Khawaja has emerged as a leading voice for human rights and political reform in Bahrain and the Gulf region. She has been influential in shaping official responses to the atrocities in Bahrain and the Gulf around the world by engaging with prominent European and American policymakers. Al-Khawaja has received numerous awards for her human rights work, including the Rafto Prize.
Ramadan
Alamami
Leila Alaouf is 26 years old. Her family is from Syria and she grew up in Normandy, France. She appears in the documentary, “A voix haute” directed by Stéphane Freitas. Journalist and activist, she is now finishing her Master’s thesis at the Sorbonne on Arab women in literary imaginary. She is an active member of the Collective "Women in the Mosque" and writes regularly on her blog “Grincement”.
Esther
Alder
Palestinian Psychologist, expressive arts Therapist and Peace Seeker
Amanda Alhusainat is a Psychologist, Expressive Arts Therapist and peace seeker from Bethlehem, Palestine. She participates in peace and dialogue youth programs locally and internationally. She combines her passion in Art and Psychology with a spiritual universal dimension and follows a humanistic and existential approach in collective trauma healing as a step forward towards building a peaceful and inclusive environment in the Middle East.
Kerem
Altiparkmak
Kerem Altiparkmak
Head of Human Rights Department, University of Ankara (via Skype)
Kerem Altiparmak is the Head of Human Rights Department, Ankara University. He is teaching human rights law both at graduate and post-graduate level. He has also worked in a number of human rights projects with human rights NGOs in Turkey. He is currently working with the Human Rights Joint Platform in the Monitoring of the Implementation of the ECtHR Judgments in Turkey programme.
He also worked with Prof. Yaman Akdeniz (İstanbul Bilgi University) in a number of freedom of expression projects. Their current Project, entitled Democratization and Internet Freedom Programme in Turkey includes training of lawyers, setting up law clinics and provision of support for digital activists and members of civil society organizations in exercising their rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Turkey.
English publications include:
“Turkey”, (with Richard Carver and Lisa Handley), (2016), in Does Torture Prevention Work? (ed. Richard Carver and Lisa Handley), Liverpool University Press, and
“The Silencing Effect on Dissent and Freedom of Expression in Turkey”, (with Yaman Akdeniz) (2015), Protection of Journalists, CoE Publication.
Heba
Aly
Heba Aly
Director, IRIN News
Heba Aly is the editor-in-chief of IRIN News, an independent newspaper focusing on humanitarian crises. She has actively contributed to its separation from the United Nations to make it more independent. As a journalist, she has covered conflict areas in the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. She previously worked for Bloomberg News and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Alejandra
Ancheita
Julia Bacha is the director of the film Naila and the Uprising, which tells the story of Naila Ayesh, a Palestinian woman who joins a clandestine women’s network in a movement fighting for the Palestinians’ right to self-determination. She previously also directed the award-winning films Budrus and My Neighborhood.
Lionel
Baier
Maltese intersex and transgender activist, Co-General Secretary of the ILGA World (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association)
Ruth Baldacchino is Co-Secretary General of ILGA World. Engaged and involved in activism & advocacy work in Malta, Europe and globally for the past 15 years, they also served on a number of boards including ILGA, ILGA-Europe, IGLYO and MGRM. Ruth is Program Officer for the Intersex Human Rights Fund at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Previously, they worked at the Maltese Ministry for Civil Liberties where they played an active role towards the passing of the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. Ruth lectures Queer Studies at the University of Malta.
Aristides
Baltas
Aristides Baltas
Philosopher and former Greek Culture Minister
Aristides Baltas is a philosopher of science and physicist who served as Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece and as Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs.
He is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science at the National Technical University of Athens.
Baltas’ research has dealt particurlarly with the phenomenon of science as well with the relationship between the analytic and continental tradition.
Daniel
Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal
Israeli Professor Emeritus of Political Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Founder of the NGO Save Israel Stop the Occupation (SISO)
Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University. His research interest is in political psychology studying socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace building, served as a President of the International Society of Political Psychology and received various awards for his work.
Olga
Baranova
Olga Baranova
German
Olga Baranova is 27 years old. A descendant of the Volga Germans, she was born in Russia and grew up in Germany and Geneva, where she studied political science. At the age of 20, she was the youngest elected member of the Geneva City Council. She is now working for the Swiss Socialist Party in Bern and she continues her activism in development cooperation and the LGBT + community.
Céline
Bardet
Céline Bardet
International Lawyer, Founder of the NGO We Are NOT Weapons Of War
Céline Bardet is a lawyer, investigator, and author specializing in war crimes, post-conflict justice, and security. After several years at the ICTY and the UN, she left and continues to work in conflict zones.
In Bosnia, she created a war crime unit, which brought the first conviction for war rape to court and a law recognizing the status of victims of war and victims of rape, adopted by many countries including Libya where she has been working since 2011.
In 2014, she founded the NGO We Are NOT Weapons Of War dedicated to the fight against war rape and developed a technological tool, and accelerator of justice, the Back Up project, which her NGO develops at Station F in Paris.
François
Barras
François Barras
President of the Institute of Arab and Mediterranean Cultures
François Barras is the president of the Institute of Arab and Mediterranean Cultures (ICAM), having twice been Switzerland’s ambassador to Lebanon. Following an internship in Tel Aviv, he has worked in New York, Washington DC, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. He studied law in Geneva, obtained a master’s degree in legal anthropology from the University of Virginia in the United States, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of London. He spent a year working for a customary court in Burundi and was a consultant to UNDP, the World Bank and on development projects.
Jean-François
Bayart
Jean-François Bayart
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Holder of the Yves Oltramare Chair "Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World"
Jean-François Bayart is a professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, a specialist in historical and comparative sociology of politics, as well as religions. He holds the Yves Oltramare Chair "Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World", Director of the Chair of Comparative African Studies at the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (Rabat) and President of the Fund for Analysis of Political Societies and the European Network Society for the Analysis of Political Societies. Through his research, he analyzes the role of religion in the formation of the state.
Yavuz
Baydar
Yavuz Baydar
Turkish journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, in exile in France
Yavuz Baydar is an award-winning Turkish journalist and columnist, and the co-founder of P24, the Platform for Independent Media. Baydar wrote opinion columns, in Turkish, liberal daily Ozgur Dusunce and news site Haberdar, and in English, daily Today’s Zaman, on domestic and foreign policy issues related to Turkey, and media matters, until all had to cease publications due to growing political oppression. He worked in Sweden between 1979 and 1991, working as a correspondent for Cumhuriyet and the BB World Service. He has been given the Special Award of the European Press Prize, which he shared with the Guardian and Der Spiegel. He is now in exile in France.
Jo
Becker
Lawyer,writer and Director of the Guernica 37 International Justice chambers
Almudena Bernabeu is a renowned international attorney with an outstanding career in the fields of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law. Ms. Bernabeu has prosecuted perpetrators of international crimes in national courts worldwide based, among others, on the principle of universal jurisdiction. Most recently, Almudena co-founded a new legal group known as Guernica37 International Justice Chambers in London and Madrid from where she leads the first criminal case on behalf of a Syrian/Spanish victim for the crimes committed against civilians by the Syrian security forces.
Alexander
Betts
Alexander Betts
Director of the Refugee Studies Center, University of Oxford, co-author of ""Refuge", Transforming A Broken Refugee System"
Alexander Betts is a British professor of international relations, director of the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University. His field of research focuses on the politics and economics of refugee assistance. He illustrated his concept of refugees as economic contributors, arguing, with his colleague Paul Collier, for a new approach based on development rather than on humanitarian issues. This approach was born out of their idea of employing Syrian refugees in special economic zones already existing in Jordan, an idea adopted and developed as a pilot project by the Jordanian government, the European Union, and the World Bank.
Cédric
Blanc
Research fellow at the CERI (Sciences Po Paris), expert on Yemen
Laurent Bonnefoy is a CNRS research fellow at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po) in Paris. He has worked extensively on Islamist movements and contemporary religious identities in the Arabian Peninsula. Based as a researcher in Sanaa for a total of four years, he has also worked in Palestine for two years where he headed the local branch of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO). He is the author of Salafism in Yemen. Transnationalism and Religious Identity (Hurst & Co./ Columbia University Press, 2012). He holds a PhD in International Relations.
Sylvain
Bourmeau
Sylvain Bourmeau
journalist and producer of the show La Suite dans les Idées, France Culture
Radhia Bouzaine is 42 years old. Fifteen years ago, she left Tunis after studying law and followed her husband to France, near the Swiss border. She takes care of her children and teaches Arabic to adults. She has a committed practice to feminist poetry, which she writes in Arabic.
Alain
Bovard
Alain Bovard
Human Rights Policy Officer, Amnesty International Switzerland
Robin Bronen lives in Alaska, works as a human rights attorney and has been working with Alaska Native communities forced to relocate because of climate change since 2007. She co-founded and works as the executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice, a NGO that is the only immigration legal service provider in Alaska and also serves as a research and policy institute focused on climate justice issues. The Alaska Bar Association awarded her the 2007 Hickerson Public Service award and 2012 International Human Rights award. The International Soroptimist’s awarded her the 2012 Advancing the Rights of Women award.
Avraham
Burg
Filmmaker, Writer and Producer, Director of Women of the Venezuela Chaos
Margarita Cadenas is a Franco-Venezuelan filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer based in Paris, France. Before becoming a director, she produced numerous French commercials around the world and worked as a co-writer and producer for the French television. Her taste for culture shock, diversity, and nature with a strong social sense is reflected in her work. «Beyond the appearances », « Masks », « Macondo », « Eternal Ashes », « Women of the Venezuelan Chaos ».
Carole
Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr
Journalist and writer, publishes in The Guardian (by Video Conference)
Carole Cadwalladr is a writer and political journalist. She publishes regularly in The Guardian and The Observer. Her writings deal mainly with the links between politics - notably Brexit and the US elections - and technology - the internet and social networks. She won the technology journalism award at the British Journalism Awards in 2017.
Agnes
Callamard
Agnes Callamard
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Dr. Agnes Callamard was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, on August 1, 2016. She is the Director of Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression, and works as special Adviser to the President of Columbia University, first amendment scholar Lee Bollinger. She has advised multilateral organizations and governments around the world, including most recently the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide. She has led human rights investigations in more than 30 countries and published extensively on human rights.
Micheline
Calmy-Rey
Patrick Chaboudez is a journalist and presenter of "Tout un monde" at RTS, a show that seeks to understand issues related to international news.
Jamil
Chade
Jason Chan is the acting executive director of Labour Action China (LAC). He started working for LAC in November 2012 and was responsible for the publication and documentation work. Jason drafted a few NGO submissions to the UN Human Rights Council and other treaty bodies. He is also the researcher and author of The Poisonous Pearl: Occupational chemical in the electronics industry in the Pearl River Delta, People’s Republic of China. Jason studied law in Melbourne and London before joining LAC. He has diverse work experience in the civil society, whom he had involved in human rights education in the last decade.
Dutee
Chand
Dutee Chand
’Hyperandrogenic’ Olympic woman athlete
Dutee Chand is an Olympic athlete and specialist of 100 and 200 meter races. She has won several bronze medals at the last Asian championships. Forbidden to participate in the Commonwealth Games in 2014 because of her testosterone level that the International Association of Athletics Federations considered too high (hyperandogeny), she brought the case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and won the trial, allowing her and all athletes in her condition to return to competition without having to undergo surgery or hormonal treatment.
Jérôme
Chapuis
Jérôme Chapuis
Chargé de projet au BPEV dans le domaine de la prévention des violences domestiques
Professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) and Director of the Global Migration Centre.
Vincent Chetail is Director of the Global Migration Center and Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. Specialist in international migration law, he is the author of a number of books on the topic. He is a member of the Board at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
Vicken
Cheterian
Eric Chol is the editor of the Courrier International. He previously worked for the Tribune and the Express, and regularly participates in programs from various radio stations such as France Inter or France Culture. He is a specialist in globalization issues.
Ixchel
Cisneros
Ixchel Cisneros
Journalist and Director of CENCOS, National Center for Social Communication
Ixchel Cisneros a Mexican journalist, and the director of the Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social A.C. (Cencos). She has collaborated in some of the most important newspapers and media outlets of Mexico. In 15 years as a journalist, she has worked in radio, television, press, and web. She is a columnist for Huffington Post Mexico, teaches digital journalism class at the Universidad de la Comunicacion and is a specialist in media strategy for civil society organizations.
Moussa
Cissokho
Professor of International Public Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which he joined in 1997. He worked in 2003 as the academic advisor on international humanitarian law for Sergio Vieira de Mello the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Iraq. Andrew Clapham was also the first Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2006 - 2014). He teaches public international law, international human rights law and international humanitarian law. His current research focuses on war. He is the author of Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (second edition) published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.
Miruna
Coca-Cozma
International human rights lawyer, author, and social entrepreneur
Flynn Coleman is an international human rights lawyer, with a background in behavioral economics, political reconciliation, post-conflict justice, artificial intelligence, war crimes tribunals, and improving access to justice through innovation. She has worked with the UN, the US Federal Government, and with human rights organizations globally. Flynn speaks, writes, and teaches on issues of global justice, social enterprise, social impact, artificial intelligence, storytelling, redefining success, and the future of work, purpose, technology, and humanity. She holds a BSFS from Georgetown University, a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law, and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Xavier
Colin
Xavier Colin
Founder of GEOPOLITIS on RTS, associate fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP)
Xavier Colin is a Swiss journalist, currently a research associate at GCSP, Geneva’s Security Policy Center. He is the founder and was the presenter of the show “Geopolitis” on the RTS from 2008 to 2016. He is also an ambassador for Terre des hommes.
Lieven
Corthouts
André Crettenand is the director of information of TV5Monde. A journalist and editorial writer, he previously worked for RTS (formerly TSR) as head of political service and then news editor. He also wrote for the Journal de Genève and for Hebdo early in his career.
Mélanie
Croubalian
Mélanie Croubalian
Producer and presenter of "Entre Nous Soit Dit", RTS
Polish feminist activist, organizer of the "Black Monday" Protest of October 2016
Agata Czarnacka (b. 1981) is a philosopher and writer specializing in public debate and democracy, as well as gender equality issues. She co-organized the 2016 "Black Protests" in Poland.
Yves Daccord has been the Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since 2010. A former journalist with Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), he joined the humanitarian organization in 1992, for which he led operations, particularly in France, Israel, Sudan, Yemen, Chechnya and Georgia. He is also the head of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response, an alliance of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, and a member of the Advisory Group on Reform of WHO’s Work in Outbreaks and Emergencies with Health and Humanitarian Consequences.
Rabei
Dahan
Rabei Dahan
Journalist, manager of the El Kul’s Libya’s animation team, BBC Media Action
Caroline de Haas is a French feminist activist, currently associate director of the Egalis group, which focuses on gender equality in the private sector. She is the co-founder of the association "Osez le féminisme ! » and was the spokesperson until 2011. She joined Amnesty International, the UNEF, then the French Socialist Party, which she left in 2014. Within it, she was appointed press secretary and spokesperson of the party at the time, led by Benoît Hamon. Continuing her career in politics, she joined the office of the Minister of Women’s Rights as a consultant in charge of relations with associations and the fight against violence towards women. She then regularly appeared in the regional legislative elections, and launched the petition "Loi Travail : non, merci !", where she collected a record number of signatures. She also co-founded the site "Macholand", which allows users to denounce misogynist behavior in the public sector.
Paco
de Onis
Militant feminist, Coline de Senarclens is the author of the essay "Salope !", Denouncing slut-shaming, and is the co-founder of the Swiss Slutwalk Association. She co-organized the first "slut walk" in Switzerland. She regularly writes for RTS, for the shows Dicodeurs and Les belles Parleurs. She has also co-produced Emission nocturne on Color 3, which discusses sexuality in all its forms.
Cobus
de Swardt
Cobus de Swardt
Special representative of Transparency International
Cobus de Swardt joined Transparency International in 2004 and was appointed Managing Director in 2007. His experience spans the fields of globalisation, development policy, international relations and business management. Cobus has taught and worked at universities, multinational corporations, trade unions and research institutes in managerial and research related roles around the world. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was active in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa including as Chair of the African National Congress in Cape Town. He is member of the Board of the UN Global Compact and Chair of the International Civil Society Centre. He was identified as one of the 500 most powerful individuals by the Foreign Policy Power Map in 2013. Cobus holds a PhD in Sociology from La Trobe University, Melbourne, and an MPhil in Political and African Studies from the University of Cape Town.
Elisabeth
Decrey Warner
Elisabeth Decrey Warner
Honorary President of Geneva Call
Elisabeth Decrey-Warner is the founder and former leader of Geneva Call, a neutral and impartial non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting non-state armed actors’ (NSAA) respect for international humanitarian law in conflict. armed forces and in other situations of violence, particularly in the area of the protection of civilians. She has devoted much of her life to the struggle for human rights, first with NGOs and then participating in the negotiations leading to the signing of the treaty banning anti-personnel mines, before engaging fully in her NGO’s work. In parallel, she also chaired the Grand Conseil Genevois. In 2006, she received the "International Society Award for Human Rights" and in 2016, the Foundation Award for Geneva in recognition of her work.
Paul-Olivier
Dehaye
Guy Delisle, author, illustrator and comic artist celebrated the world over and winner of the Fauve d’Or at Angoulême in 2012 is this edition’s artist of honour.
Known primarily for being the author of the half diaries, half exposés "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea", "Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China", "Burma Chronicles" and "Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City", as well as "Hostage", which tells of the ordeal suffered by Christophe André, an MSF humanitarian kept hostage in Chechnya. He is also famous for his for tomes of "The Owner’s Manual to Terrible Parenting".
Miroslaw
Dembinski
Author, filmmaker, feminist activist and founder of the anti-racist association Les Indivisibles
Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, writer and filmmaker known for her work in favor of racial, gender and religious equality. She is the host of the BET channel and has produced and directed documentaries and radio and television broadcasts. She co-wrote "La France Une et Multiculturelle", She published: "Racism: a guide, France Belongs to Us", "France: One and Multicultural" and "How to talk to kids about racism". She recently published a graphic novel "Pari(s) d’Amies" and released "Afro!" featuring Afro-Parisians who choose natural hairstyles.
Abdul Gadiry
Diallo
Abdul Gadiry Diallo
President of the Guinean Organization for the Defense of Human Rights, member of the International Federation for Human Rights
Whether exploring an island devastated by a tsunami with a small ca- mera to capture the damage or, developing the story of a man returning from exile, the Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz is working to invent aesthetic and narrative forms that play with established genres. “Cinema is only a hundred years old, it is a young art that must be pushed further,” says the filmmaker, who has directed some twenty films.
Laure
Dieudonné
Laure Dieudonné
Creole
Laure Dieudonné, 42, was born in Haiti where she lived until she was 5 years old. She then moved to Friborg where her mother worked as a nurse. Following, she left for the United States to attend art school before returning to Geneva. She has three children and works as an English teacher. Apart from her professional activities, she preaches in the Protestant Church of Geneva, appreciates literature and Creole tales, contrabass and engraving.
Laurence
Difélix
Since 2017, Laura Drompt is the co-editor in chief of the Swiss daily Le Courrier, an independent French-speaking newspaper whose charter promotes activism and human rights.. Since 2013, she has worked as head of the Swiss section and as the parliamentary correspondent. She graduated in archeology and Egyptology at the University of Geneva and completed her studies with a master’s degree from the Academy of Journalism and Media at the University of Neuchâtel. A follower of field journalism and investigative journalism, she takes a very close look at the issue of gender inequalities.
Franck
Duprat
Franck Duprat
Producer of « Catalogne, l’Espagne au bord de la crise de nerfs »
Frédéric Esposito is a political scientist at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva. He is Director of the University Observatory of Security within the GSI and member of the Security Advisory Council (CCS) of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. He was a visiting scholar at the European Institute in Florence, and he participated as a project manager on the European Commission’s program "Cities against terrorism" (DG Justice, Freedom and Security, pilot project of assistance to victims of terrorist acts) within the European Forum for Urban Security (2005-2008).
(real name Fatou Diatta, born 1982 in Dakar, Senegal)[1] is a Senegalese rapper and anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) activist.
Silvia
Fabiani
Silvia Fabiani
Italian
Silvia Fabiani, 56, is an independent video artist born in Milan. As a teenager she followed debates on rights to divorce, abortion and contraception. She comes from a traditional family in which marriage is considered the main ambition for women. Her great sense of independence led her to leave Italy at the age of 25. She arrived in Switzerland where she now develops video performances.
Leila
Fasseaux
Author of the "Mincome" (minimum income) project, economist and Professor, University of Manitoba
Evelyn L. Forget is professor of economics and community health sciences at the University of Manitoba Canada, and author of The Town with No Poverty, a re-examination of the Mincome Basic Income experiment. Her most recent work examines the relationships between poverty, inequality, health and social outcomes. She is widely called upon by governments, First Nations and international bodies to advise on Basic Income, social security, and social experimentation.
Michel
Forst
Michel Forst
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Michel Forst is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. He has extensive experience in this field, notably with the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, for which he is Secretary General, UNESCO, Amnesty International (France) and organizing the first World Summit on Human Rights Defenders.
Catherine
Frammery
Senior Advisor, Département fédéral des affaires étrangères (DFAE), President of the International Code of Conduct Association (ICOCA) steering Comitee
Expert in agriculture and biodiversity, Public Eye
Laurent Gaberell is head of the department "Agriculture, Biodiversity and Intellectual Property" within the NGO, Swiss Public Eye, formerly the Berne Declaration, which fights against injustices and human rights violations committed by Swiss multinationals in developing countries.
Laure
Gabus
Gael García Bernal is a Mexican actor and director, best known for his roles in "La Mala Educación", "Babel", "Amores Perros", and the series "Mozart in the Jungle". Gael García Bernal is also known for his social and political activism on the issues of freedom of expression, impunity, and migration. He collaborates with Oxfam and Amnesty International, particularly in their fight for the rights of migrants and refugees. He co-founded the Ambulante documentary film festival in Mexico.
Sévane
Garibian
Sévane Garibian
Professor of International Criminal Law at the University of Geneva, Director of the project Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice
A doctor of law and a professor at the University of Geneva, Sévane Garibian is a specialist in international criminal justice and human rights. She currently runs the project, "Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice". Among her many assignments, she was appointed Judge of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal for Sri Lanka and a member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Study, Technical and Evaluation Law (CETEL) of the Faculty of Law of UNIGE. She has won several prizes and the FNS scholarship.
Thomas
Gass
Journalist, BBC News Washington, author and senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Kim Ghattas is a senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She writes a regular column for Foreign Policy magazine. A long-time BBC journalist, she covered the American presidential campaign of 2016. From 2008 until 2015, she was the BBC’s State Department correspondent, traveling regularly with the Secretary of State. She wrote a NYT best seller "The Secretary - a Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power". Before moving to DC, she was a Middle East correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, based in Beirut. She was part of an Emmy-Award-winning BBC team covering the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006. She covered Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia extensively. She has also covered Iran and Pakistan more recently. Her work has also been published by the Daily Beast, TIME magazine, and the Washington Post. She appears regularly on NPR and American television shows to discuss foreign policy and Arab affairs. Ghattas serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut. She was born and raised in Beirut.
Solange
Ghernaouti
Solange Ghernaouti
Professor at the University of Lausanne and International Expert in Cybersecurity and Cyber Defense
Solange Ghernaouti is an international cybersecurity expert and a pioneer in the interdisciplinary approach to managing computer risks. She is the author of numerous scientific and popular publications, as well as about thirty books including "Cyberpower: Crime, Conflict & Security in Cyberspace", translated into Chinese and "Cybercriminaité, the new weapons of power" awarded best book by Cyber 2018. She is a doctor in computer science from Paris VI University, former auditor of the Institute of Advanced National Defense Studies, professor at the University of Lausanne, Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, director of Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory & Research Group, founding partner of Heptagone Digital Risk Management & Security, and President of the sgh-Cybermonde Foundation.
Kate
Gilmore
President of the International Women’s Health Coalition
Françoise Girard is President of the International Women’s Health Coalition and a highly regarded advocate for women’s rights and sexual and reproductive rights and health. She is an expert on strategic philanthropy in the developing world, and served as Director of the Public Health Program at the Open Society Foundations from 2006-2011. Françoise is regularly consulted by UN and intergovernmental agencies and has played a key advocacy role at UN conferences on population and development, women’s rights, and HIV/AIDS. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and other publications.
Sabine
Gisiger
International Curator of the TED Conferences and Chairman of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH)
Bruno Giussani is the International Curator of the TED Conferences and the Chairman of the Board of the FIFDH. A recognized analyst of global affairs and of the impacts of technology on society, he was previously a journalist for news outlets in Europe and the United States, including the New York Times, an executive at the World Economic Forum, and a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Charles
Glass
Charles Glass
Journalist and writer, author of « Syria Burning, A Short History of A Catastrophe »
Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Dr. Christophe Golay is Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and Senior Lecturer at the Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH). From 2001 to 2008 he was Legal Adviser to the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food and undertook several missions with the United Nations, including in Brazil and India. He published several books and articles on the promotion of the right to food to fight hunger and malnutrition.
Colin
Gonsalves
Colin Gonsalves
Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India, social and economic rights defender, and Founder of the Human Rights Law Network
Colin Gonsalves is the Founder of Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), India’s leading public interest law group. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mr. Gonsalves started his professional life as a civil engineer but was drawn into the field of law through his work with the unions in Bombay. He commenced formal legal study in 1979 and litigated his first case, while still in law school, on behalf of 5,000 workers locked out of their jobs. Upon attaining his law degree in 1983, Mr. Gonsalves co-founded the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) and developed it into a national organisation.
Stephen
Goose
Stephen Goose
Executive Director, Arms Division at HRW and founder of the "Stop Killer Robots" campaign
Stephen Goose is the director of the Weapons Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW). After actively participating in the drafting of several international conventions on weapons of war, including the Anti-Personnel Mine Action Treaty and the Blinding Laser Protocol, and in 1997 co-founding the international campaign for the prohibition of landmines (ICAN, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize), he co-founded with HRW the Stop Killer Robots campaign in 2013.
Yulia
Gorbunova
Marie-Pierre Gracedieu has led, at only 40, an already impressive career, alongside the biggest international authors. She got her start at Stock, as head of La Cosmopolite, until then dedicated to legends such as Stefan Zweig and Virginia Woolf. On arrival, she opens
the collection up to contemporary authors, amongst which Sofi Oksanen and her thriller "Purge". In 2012, Antoine Gallimard appoints her as head of the anglo-saxon section. Curious, sharp, tireless and passionate, she has since edited Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Hisham Mater, Jessie Burton, Jonathan Coe, Arundathi Roy and Omar Robert Hamilton’s first novel "The City Always Wins", published in French this month in collaboration with the FIFDH.
Filippo
Grandi
Writer and video artist, author of "The City Always Wins"
Anglo-Egyptian, Omar Robert Hamilton grew up in London. In 2011, as Egypt rose up against the Mubarak regime, he moved to Cairo and cofounded the Mosireen collective. They freely posted photos, videos, and documented demonstrations, the daily struggles and police abuse. This sense of urgency, this courage, this intensity and their shattered hopes are the plot of his first novel, "The City Always Wins", which, after gaining acclaim in the Anglo Saxon world, is published by Gallimard, in partnership with the FIFDH. Omar Robert Hamilton has also published numerous articles in The Guardian and The London Review of Books, and founded the Ramallah Literature Festival.
Benoît
Hamon
Benoît Hamon
French Politician, founding member of "Generation · s, le mouvement"
Benoît Hamon is a French politician. He was the candidate for the Socialist Party in the 2017 French presidential elections. During his presidential campaign, he supported the idea of a universal subsistence income. He left the Socialist Party in July 2017 to create "Génération·s, le mouvement", a political party of social and ecological ideologies. He has also been minister, MEP, and MP.
Ellen
Hansen
Ellen Hansen
Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations High-Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR)
Columbia University Professor and author of Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015)
Bernard E. Harcourt is a professor at Columbia University in New York and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought and an active death row lawyer. His recent work examines the use of surveillance as a mode of government power in the age of Big Data, and the emergence what he calls “the expository society.” He is the author, most recently, of Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015).
Pierre
Haski
Tirana Hassan works at Amnesty International where she heads the Crisis Response Department, which reports on violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the event of crises and conflicts. She has extensive experience in humanitarian aid, previously worked as a researcher for the Emergency Division at Human Rights Watch and at various humanitarian organizations such as MSF and UNICEF.
Mahmoud
Hassino
Mahmoud Hassino
Protagonist of the film, organizer of "Mister Gay Syria"
Barbara Hendricks, 69, born in Arkansas, USA, is a singer who has appeared on all major opera stages, including the Paris Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London and La Scala in Milan. After almost 20 years of tireless service to the refugee cause in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, she received the title of Honorary Ambassador for Life of UNHCR and continues to perform special missions using her extensive experience in the field. She founded the Barbara Hendricks Foundation for Peace and Reconciliation, which supports her activism in conflict prevention around the world, facilitates reconciliation and peace building in conflict zones, and is the "Godmother" of the FIFDH.
Anabel
Hernández
Former Hawaii State Senator and current President of the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action
Gary Hooser is Board president for the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action (H.A.P.A.). He formerly represented Kauai and Niihau in the Hawaii State Senate where he served as Majority Leader, he also served for 8 years on the Kauai County Council and was Director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control for the State of Hawaii. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii (B.A. Public Administration). Prior to entering politics he owned and operated several small businesses.
Stephen
Hopgood
Stephen Hopgood
Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Stephen Hopgood is Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of “The Endtimes of Human Rights” (Cornell University Press).
Massoud
Hossaini
Massoud Hossaini
Photograph, Pulitzer Prize award winner and protagonist of the film
Subbarao Kambhampati (Rao) is a professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University, and is the current president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and a trustee of the Partnership on AI. His research focuses on decision making in human-aware AI systems. He wrote an Op-Ed in The Guardian titled "I’m a pacifist, so why don’t I support the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots?"
He is a fellow of AAAI and AAAS; program chair for IJCAI 2016 and program co-chair for AAAI 2005. Rao received his bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his PhD from University of Maryland, College Park.
Cleopatra
Kambugu
Cleopatra Kambugu
Human rights LGBTI defender and film protagonist
Cleopatra Kambugu is a Ugandan Transgender activist and queer feminist.
She is co-protagonist of the documentary “The Pearl of Africa” that chronicles her life as a transgender woman seeking affirmation, recognition and the right to self-determination for herself and her relationship with her partner Nelson Kasaija.
She has worked variously with the transgender movement both locally within Uganda, regionally within Eastern Africa as well as globally. She is currently working as a Grants Administrator at UHAI EASHRI, an indigenous activist fund that works to resource sexual and gender minority movements in the East African Countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and DR Congo.
Massia
Kaneman-Pougatch
Massia Kaneman-Pougatch
Founding and board member of JCall Switzerland
Massia Pugatsch is co-founder of Jcall Switzerland. She is a member of the committee responsible for relations with JCall Europe, the Jewish movement for peace in the Middle East according to the principle "two states for two peoples". In 2016, she organized a women’s meeting in Geneva in front of the Broken Chair at the Place des Nations, in support and solidarity for the Great March for Peace in Israel, which brought together more than 20,000 Israeli women - Jewish and Arab - and Palestinian women. She is a professional integration coach for migrant women, at the Association Découvrir, which she chairs.
Tawakkol
Karman
Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni journalist and activist, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Co-director of "A Better Man" and advocate and counselor for abused women and children
Attiya Khan is a Toronto-based feminist and filmmaker. She is an intimate partner violence survivor, and long-time advocate and counselor for abused women and children. Attiya conceived the idea for "A Better Man" in 2012, drawing on her personal and professional experience with intimate partner violence. Attiya has worked in women’s shelters in Canada and the United States, including running the Child and Youth Services Program at Transition House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She worked at YWCA Toronto, supporting the communications and advocacy team, running a training program on crisis intervention, and administering the December 6th Fund, which offers interest-free loans for women fleeing domestic violence. As a writer, activist, and speaker, she has presented at numerous events and conferences related to domestic violence. Together with her family, she recently co-founded a YWCA Toronto scholarship program for domestic violence survivors.
Alireza
Khatami
Sung-Mi Kim is 34 years old. Her parents arrived in Switzerland in the 60s and 70s after the Korean War. She was born in Geneva, grew up there and chose to study Chinese and Japanese in the Languages department. She specializes in Korean history and has taught Korean at the University of Geneva since 2009.
John
Kiriakou
Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. His latest books in English are "After Europe" (UPenn Press, May 2017) "Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest" (UPenn Press, May 2014); "In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don’t Trust Our Leaders?" (TED Books, 2013). He is a co-author with Stephen Holmes of a forthcoming book on Russian politics
Cynthia
Kraus
Cynthia Kraus
Philosopher of science, research and teaching fellow at the University of Lausanne, specialized in gender, intersex and transgender issues
Executive Director of Imkaan, a British organization combating violence against Black and ’Minority Ethnic’ (BME) women
Marai Larasi is the executive director of Imkan, a British organization that aims to prevent and respond to violence against black and ethnic minority women. She is also co-leader of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, which brings together institutions and individuals to end violence against women. She is featured in the 2013 World Pride Power List.
Linn
Larsdotter
Linn Larsdotter
Swedish
Linn Larsdotter, 30, was born in Stockholm. In 1999, her family moved to Geneva. Influenced very early by feminist issues and their articulation in cultural spaces, she obtained her degrees in Art History and Gender Studies. Today active in the management of public projects on issues of gender equality and the rights of LGBTQI people, Linn also animates the feminist podcast "Crépidules".
Efi
Latsoudi
Efi Latsoudi
Migrant rights activist on the island of Lesbos and 2016 Nansen Refugee Award Winner
Head of the international public law and international organisations Department, University of Geneva
Nicolas Levrat is a Doctor of Public International Law and Professor of Law at the University of Geneva. He was also director of the University’s Global Studies Institute. His areas of research include European institutional law, the statutes of public authorities in Europe and the rights of minority groups. He is a specialist in the right to self-determination and has advised the Catalan independence government.
Linn
Levy
Daughter of a malien father and a senegalese mother, Aïssa Maïga grew up in Paris where she became enthralled with movies at a young age. She collaborated with Alain Tanner, who cast her as Lila in "Jonas et Lila, à demain", Michael Haneke, Cedric Klapsisch, Claude Berri, Michel Gondry, as well as Lucien Jean Baptiste ("Even Has Your Eyes"). Her part in Abderrahmane Sissako’s Bamako earned her a nomination in the 2007 Cesars (French version of Oscars) for Best New Female Talent, becoming the first actress of African descent to be nominated.
She is due to appear alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor in "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind", Andy Okoroafor’s "20 Pound Dream" and South African Mickey Dube’s "Comatose".
Aïssa also sponsors the AMREF, Africa’s first public health NGO and has recently became the online brand ambassador for Estée Lauder.
Esther
Mamarbachi
Esther Mamarbachi
Producer and journalist at the RTS
Esther Mamarbachi is a journalist and presenter of Swiss Radio Television (RTS). She presented the RTS’s main news program for several years before taking on the co-production and hosting of the political debate show “Infrarouge”.
Brigitte
Mantilleri
Brigitte Mantilleri
Director of the Equality and Diversity Department at the University of Geneva
Law Professor at the University of Essex, co-director and principal investigator of a project on human rights, big data, and technology
Lorna McGregor is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Essex. Her research includes a project on human rights, big data and technology and she is a researcher on a project on the use of big datas in the rehabilitation of torture survivors.
Sergio
Mejia
Rossella Mezzina, 49, works as a translator and interpreter and is involved in the production of documentary films. Born in Italy, she comes from a family of fisherman. She lived in Madrid for eighteen years and returned to Geneva with her daughter in 2015. She is currently finishing a Masters degree in Anthropology.
Serge
Michel
Serge Michel
Senior reporter at the Monde and editor in chief at World Africa
Assistant Professor in Political science and Coordinator of the research group PostCit-penser la différence raciale et postcoloniale – University of Geneva
Athletes’ Rights Activist and Government-appointed Advisor to Dutee Chand
Payoshni Mitra is a researcher and activist who fights for the rights of athletes, particularly related to gender issues in sports. She has been appointed by the Indian government to advise the hyperandrogenic athlete Dutee Chand, particularly in the trial she conducted and won against the International Association of Athletics Federations and its regulations prohibiting athletes with a certain level of testosterone to run.
Dalya
Mitri
Isabelle Moncada is a journalist, and the producer of the health magazine of the RTS, 36.9 °. She previously directed ABE magazine on the same channel and wrote articles for The Courier early in her career.
Henri
Monceau
Henri Monceau
Permanent Representative of the International Francophonie Organization (OIF) to the United Nations in Geneva and other organizations in Switzerland
Henri Monceau is the permanent representative of the OIF at the United Nations in Geneva as well as other international organizations in Switzerland. Previously, he worked for the Walloon government in various positions, including as High Representative for Fundamental Rights, the Information Society, and the Digital Economy and to the Belgian Government as Chief of Staff to the Vice-Prime Minister, and Minister of Mobility and Transport
Laura
Mora
Writer and essayist, author of ’The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom’
Evgeny Morozov is an American researcher and writer specializing in the political and social implications of technological progress and digital technology. In his book, "To save everything click here: the folly of technological solutionism", Evgeny Morozov develops the notion of "technological solutionism" to explain how human problems (political, social, societal) are systematically transformed into a technical question then addressed by private actors, or states with digital solutions to problems without ever looking at their causes. In addition, it advocates that digital data be considered as a common good, to prevent companies from taking consumers hostage by imposing rights of access to services that they have produced.
Hollmann
Morris
Philippe Mottaz is the editorial producer of the Festival’s Forum. An award-winning journalist and entrepreneur, he worked for ten years as a White House and State Department correspondent in Washington for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. He is a former Head of News and Public Affairs for the Swiss Broadcasting Coporation French network.
He is the co-author of “#Trump- De la démagogie en Amérique”, published in September 2016 by Slatkine Paris.
Denis
Mukwege
Daniel Munevar is an economist, former advisor to the ex-Minister of Finance of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis on fiscal policy and debt sustainability. He was previously fiscal advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Colombia and special advisor on Foreign Direct Investment for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.
Major General ANM
Muniruzzaman (Retd)
Major General ANM Muniruzzaman (Retd)
Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change (GMACCC) and former Military Advisor to the President of Bangladesh
Major General ANM Muniruzzaman is the Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change and the former military advisor to the President of Bangladesh. Previously, he was Managing Director and CEO of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). He has been involved in a number of UN peacekeeping operations, including the UNTAC mission (UN interim authority in Cambodia). He worked for more than 38 years in the military.
Lina
Muñoz Figueredo
Lina Muñoz Figueredo
Specialist of women’s movement in Latin America and more specifically in Colombia
UN Independent Expert on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Vitit Muntarbhorn is a Professor Emeritus of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and the UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, the first person to occupy this newly created position. He has helped the non-governmental sector, several Ministries in Thailand and the UN in various capacities. He is a former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children; former UN Special Rapporteur on DPR Korea; former Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Ivory Coast; and a former Commissioner of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
Historian, North American History Professor at Sciences Po Paris
Pap NDiaye is French a historian, specializing in the social history of the United States with a focus on its minorities. He holds a doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) where he was a lecturer before being selected in 2012 as Professor at the Institut d’ Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Ndiaye is a pioneer of “Black Studies” in French, and co-founded the Circle of Action for the Promotion of Diversity in France (CAPDIV) with Patrick Loze. He is currently working on a global history of civil rights in the 20th century.
Carlo
Nero
Michaël Neuman is the Director of studies at the Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires (Crash) / Médecins sans Frontières. Michaël Neuman joined Médecins sans Frontières in 1999 and has worked both on the ground (Balkans, Sudan, Caucasus, West Africa) and in headquarters (New York, Paris as deputy director responsible for programmes). He is co-editor of "Humanitarian negotiations Revealed, the MSF experience" and of "Saving lives and staying alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management".
Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Igbo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the major writers of contemporary literature, author of "The Purple Hibiscus", "The Other Half of the Sun" and the best seller "Americanah". She is read and admired around the world, and her transcribed essay from a TED conference "We should all be feminists" was famously sampled by Beyoncé.
The Nigerian writer will be at the FIFDH for an exceptional event, staged by Geneva’s Nalini Menamkat, around her latest book "Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions", a letter that the author wrote for a friend who had just given birth to a little girl.
Dejan
Nikolic
Consultant Expert on Global Supply Chain Sustainability (Environnement, Health, Human Rights and Ethics)
Bonnie Nixon has been committed for more than 30 years for a safe, healthy and just economy. She is currently a Senior Partner with Environmental Resources Management which provides technical advisory services in the Business of Sustainability. Bonnie consults with many of the fortune 500 companies on global sustainability strategies, environmental product design and stewardship, multi-stakeholder engagement and complex supply chain ethical sourcing strategies. She held many high profile positions at Walmart, Hewlett-Packard and Mattel.
Andrew
Noble
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is one of the most influential filmmakers from Central Asia. Two-time winners of the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, her films tackle some of her country’s most burning issues, such as honor crimes ("Saving Face", 2012 Oscar and "A Girl In The River", 2016 Oscar), trangender people ("Transgenders : Pakistan’s Open Secret"), taliban child soldiers ("Children of the Taliban"), and sharia law ("Song of Lahore"). In 2012, Time Magazine included her in their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2017, she was the first artist invited to chair over the World Economic Forum in Davos. The same year, she received the prestigious Knight International Journalism Award in Washington, for her talent, courage and the profound impact her films have had in Pakistan.
Hanne Gaby
Odiele
Hanne Gaby Odiele
Intersex Advocate and Model
Hanne Gaby Odiele is a model and intersex activist. She marched for the biggest names in the fashion industry such as Dior and Yves Saint-Laurent. Hanne Gaby Odiele was born intersex and was subjected as a child to several medical interventions. In 2017, she publicly revealed her intersexuality and became one of the faces of the movement for the rights of intersex people. She has been working with interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth and advocating for the rights and visibility of intersex people.
Ndume
Olatushani
Ndume Olatushani
Former inmate sentenced to death, released after 28 years of detention
Mayor of Palermo and defender of a “right to international human mobility”
Leoluca Orlando is the Mayor of the City of Palermo, a function he served numerous times since his first election in 1985.
In 2015, he launched the “Charter of Palermo” on the International Human Mobility. It calls for the abolition of the residence permit, and for European law and practice to be “substantially modified” to help ease the suffering of refugees
During his first mandates, he also denounced the peril represented by the mafioso economy, the channel through which the Mafia families exercised their power with the complicity of public officials, and promoted a substantial growth of the anti-mafia movement within the local society.
Eva
Orner
Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from 2007 to 2017
Luisa Ortega Diaz was the Prosecutor General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from 2007 to 2017. Appointed under the government of Hugo Chavez, she is opposed to President Nicolàs Maduro, whom she accuses of corruption. She was dismissed from her position as Prosecutor General in August 2017 by the Constituent Assembly and now lives in exile in Colombia.
Faiza
Oulahsen
Pidgeon Pagonis is a militant activist for the rights and visibility of people who are born intersex, and fights especially against the medical interventions imposed on them as children, without their consent. Pidgeon has worked for InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, published several articles, directed an autobiographical film, "The Son I Never Had", and lectured extensively on the subject. In 2015, their work was awarded the LGBT Champion of Change by the White House. Pidgeon Pagonis is defined as "non-binary" and uses the pronoun "they".
Ugo
Panizza
Ugo Panizza
Director of the Centre for Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Ugo Panizza is Professor of Economics and Pictet Chair at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He is also the Director of the Institute’s Centre on Finance and Development, and a CEPR Research Fellow. Prior to joining the Institute, Ugo was the Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at UNCTAD. He also worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank and was an assistant professor of economics at the American University of Beirut and the University of Turin. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and an editor of the Association’s journal Economia.
Maite
Parejo Sousa
Maite Parejo Sousa
Co-founder of G37, Despacho Internacional, partner in The Guernica Group and Vice-President of the Spanish Association of Human Rights
Author of "We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and associate professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
Wendy Pearlman is an associate professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, a specialist in the Middle East where she has traveled and researched for more than half of her life. Her work focuses mainly on domestic politics as well as the causes and consequences of political violence. Her latest book, "We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria", tells the story of the origins and evolution of the Syrian crisis, exclusively through the testimonies of more than 300 Syrian refugees, people forever marked by this conflict.
Raoul
Peck
Raoul Peck
Haiti’s former Minister of Culture and director of the film
Project Manager “Business & Human Rights” at the NGO Bread For All
Chantal Peyer is an historian and a political scientist. After completing a Master’s at the University of Lausanne, she specialized in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. She is currently the Manager of the project “Business & Human Rights” at the NGO Bread For All. She has conducted research on human rights and environmental abuses in the mining and electronic sectors. In 2016, she published a study titled “Politics and Human Rights of Swiss Companies: A Situational Analysis” (« Politique et droits humains des entreprises suisses : un état des lieux »). Chantal Peyer is member of the Committee of the “Initiative for responsible multinational companies” (« Initiative pour des entreprises multinationales responsables »).
Navi
Pillay
Journalist, co-author of "Turkey Unveiled : A History of Modern Turkey"
Nicole Pope is a Swiss journalist and writer with a long experience of Turkey. She was Le Monde correspondent for 15 years and has contributed to numerous other international publications. She is the co-author of "Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey" (Overlook Press) and the author of "Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century" (Palgrave Macmillan).
Raymonde
Provencher
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (September 2014 - September 2018), known for his freedom of speech. He has extensive experience in the United Nations, including working as a political affairs specialist with the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) for the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996. He also chaired the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). In addition to these various mandates, he has served his country, the Kingdom of Jordan, as the representative to the UN in New York (2000-2007 and 2010-2014) and ambassador to Washington (2007-2010). Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has also played a central role in establishing the International Criminal Court.
Jesselyn
Radack
University of Leiden and Sciences Po Paris, director of the research project “Security and the Politics of Belonging: Homegrown terrorism, counter-radicalization and the "end" of multiculturalism?”
Former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Distinguished Fellow at the Hague Institute for Global Justice
Stephen Rapp served as US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice from 2009 to 2015. He was Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2009 where he led the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. From 2001 to 2007, he served as Senior Trial Attorney and Chief of Prosecutions at the UN’s Rwanda Tribunal where he achieved convictions of leaders of the mass media for genocide incitement.
Abdul
Rasheed
Abdul Rasheed
Founder of the Rohingya Community Foundation and protagonist of the film
Abdul Rasheed is a Rohingya activist fighting for the rights and survival of his people. He is the founder of the Rohingya Foundation Community and advises the Fortify Rights organization, which fights against human rights violations. He was active in the national party for democracy until 2012. He is one of the protagonists of the film "The Venerable W." by Barbet Schroeder.
Caroline
Recher
A legendary actress, both in the world of cinema and television, Vanessa Redgrave distinguished herself as early as the 1960s with her activism and tireless commitment in favour of the oppressed people.
Chloé
Rémond
Chloé Rémond
French freelance journalist, based in the Philippines
Chloé Rémond is a freelance journalist based in the Philippines who works as a foreign correspondant for various media. After graduating from CUEJ in 2010, she worked as a journalist for French TV channel France 2 for three years, before becoming an independent journalist making tv reporting for various channels. She won the François Chalais young reporter award for a tv report in Bosnia.
Lukas
Renggli
Investigative journalist whose work led to the denunciation of the 1MDB Scandal
Clare Rewcastle Brown is a former UK TV reporter, who set up her own blog to focus on the problems of deforestation in South East Asia and the web of corruption that has been driving the problem. The blog, Sarawak Report, has thrown light on local political corruption in turn facilitated by international corruption in our global financial systems.
Gláucia
Ribeiro
Gláucia Ribeiro
Portuguese (Brazil)
Gláucia Ribeiro, 51, grew up in a modest household in Brazil. At the age of 18 she became a police officer, working for women victims of domestic violence and child victims of abuse. After having three children, she returned to her studies in Law and specialized in Criminology. At 46, she decided to join her family in Geneva. She is currently working in an organization that helps immigrants and especially women in difficulty.
Jean-Marc
Rickli
Jean-Marc Rickli
Leader of the Global Risk and Resilience cluster of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Dr. Jean-Marc Rickli is the head of global risk and resilience at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a research fellow at King’s College London and a non-resident fellow in modern warfare and security at TRENDS Research and Advisory in Abu Dhabi. He is a senior advisor for the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Initiative at the Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School and an expert on autonomous weapons systems for the United Nations. He is also the co-chair of the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium on Emerging Security Challenges Working Group.
Moritz
Riesewieck
Marta Roca i Escoda, 44, was born in Barcelona where she studied Sociology. Her academic career brought her to Spain, Belgium and Switzerland, where she wrote a thesis at the University of Geneva on LGBT rights. She has a child and works at the University of Lausanne at the Center for Gender Studies.
Sophie
Roche
Darius Rochebin is the main presenter of the RTS’s news program “le 19h30”. He also hosts "Pardonnez-moi" in which he has notably received Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Christine Lagarde as well as Swiss personalities of international renown.
Ana Maria
Rodriguez Valencia
Ana Maria Rodriguez Valencia
Director for International Advocacy at the Colombian Commission of Jurists
Rupert Russell is a director and writer. His first documentary film, Freedom for the Wolf, investigated the global rise of illiberal democracy. Executive produced by BBC Storyville founder Nick Fraser, it has screened at Slamdance, IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest and many other festivals. He has just completed an animated webseries, How the World Went Mad, on the rise of political insanity for the online documentary streaming platform Docsville. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard and a Double-Starred First in the Social and Political Sciences form Jesus College, Cambridge.
Denis
Ruysschaert
Denis Ruysschaert
Évaluateur indépendant pour les Nations Unies du projet "de gestion durable des forêts du Bassin du Congo", vice-président SWISSAID Genève, chercheur sur le militantisme environnemental
Moises Saman (b.1974, Lima, Peru) is a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and a member of Magnum Photos. His most recent body of work, a book project titled Discordia, is a visual account of the Arab Spring, made up of work compiled over four years spent living in the Middle East. The work featured in Discordia, and the book itself, have received numerous awards, including the 2016 Anamorphosis Prize, 2015 Guggenheim Grant for Photography, the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (2014), the Henri Nannen Preis (2014), the World Press Photo (2014), and Pictures of the Year International (2012, 2014, 2015). Moises is currently a regular contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Doctors Without Borders, The International Committee of the Red Cross, and Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, among other international publications and NGO’s. From 2007-2012 Moises was a regular contributor to The New York Times based in Cairo and New York, and from 2000-2007 was a staff press photographer at Newsday newspaper in New York. Moises currently lives in Tokyo.
Claudia
Samayoa
Claudia Samayoa
Co-founder and coordinator of Unidad de Protección de Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos Guatemala – UDEFEGUA, and member of executive council of the OMCT
Director of the Swiss Section of Amnesty International
Journalist and human rights activist, Manon Schick has been Executive Director of Amnesty International Switzerland since 2011. In March 2017 she published a book entitled " Mes héroïnes: Des femmes qui s’engagent" with Favre editions.
Klaus
Schönenberger
Barbet Schroeder is a director and film producer, best known for "The Charles Bukowski Tapes", "Barfly", and "Single White Female". At the beginning of his career, he collaborated on the writing of "Les Cahiers du cinéma" and worked with Jean-Luc Godard. He then founded his own company Les Films du Losange. "The Venerable W.", concludes his remarkable and famous "trilogy of evil", which includes "General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait" and "Terror’s Advocate".
Isabelle
Schulte-Tenckhoff
Sociologist and Turkish political opponent in exile in France
Born in 1971, Pinar Selek is a feminist and anti-militarist activist. She has been living in exile for 7 years and in France for 4 years. She is a sociologist and holds a PhD in Political Science and an honorary doctorate from the ENS-Lyon. She teaches political science at the Sophia Antipolis University of Nice. She is an associate member of SAGE (UMR 7363, University of Strasbourg) and of the URMIS (UMR 8245). She is also Research Programme Director at the International College of Philosophy. Her last publications are: Parce qu’elles sont arméniennes, Paris, Liana Levi, 2015; La maison du Bosphore, Paris, Lina Levi, 2014. Le rôle du mouvement féministe dans l’émergence d’un nouveau cycle de contestation en Turquie, Mouvements, Mars, 2017; Quand les Apatrides et les Infidèles contestent : territoires, conflits, innovations, Culture & Conflits, 2016/2, n°102, pp.165-187.
Casper
Selg
Casper Selg
Former Editor, Evening News, Swiss German Radio
Casper Selg was born in Basel in 1950, where he later studied law and became a lawyer. In 1980 he was Foreign Editor at “Echo der Zeit”, specializing in Middle-Eastern issues and reporting from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. He then became US Correspondent, before coming back to Switzerland and becoming Chief Editor of “Echo der Zeit”. He was named “Swiss journalist of the year” in 2005 and won numerous prizes.
Leila
Shahid
Ambassador of the Republic of Fiji in Geneva and Chief of Negotiations at COP23
Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan is Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva. In 2017, she was appointed chief negotiator for COP23. Previously, she was a lawyer at the Fiji High Court and Inner Temple London. In addition, she was the first female judge appointed to the Fiji High Court. She is also a member of the Board of the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice of the International Criminal Court.
Elise
Shubs
Author of "Human Rights in Camera" and associate professor at Western University, Canada
Sharon Sliwinski is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in Canada. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges the fields of visual culture, political theory, and the life of the mind. Her first, award-winning book, "Human Rights In Camera" (2011), examines the visual politics of human rights. Her most recent work, "Dreaming in Dark Times" (2017), investigates the social, political, and cultural significance of dream-life
Elizabeth
Sombart
Juan Carlos Soni Bulos is a member of the organization “Grupo Huasteco de Promocion y Defensorias de Los Derechos Humanos” a Mexican organization that defends human rights of indigenous communities of Teenek of the Husteca. As a consequence of the reports of human rights violations he regularly publishes for his organization, Juan Carlos, along with other members of his group, has been threatened, subjected to searches without a warrant, and finally to torture. They were also accused and imprisoned for 2 years, till the trial that recognized them non-guilty
Gabriela
Sotomayor
Ambassador Peter Sørensen is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other organizations in Geneva. He began his career as a lawyer and then turned to diplomacy. Initially advisor of various representatives in the Balkan countries, he later became head of the EU delegation in Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina before being relocated to the UN in 2014.
Gerald
Staberock
Gerald Staberock
Secretary General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
Gérald Staberock has been the Secretary General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) since 2011. Previously, he worked for the International Commission of Jurists as Director of the Center for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, and Director of its Global Security and Rule of Law Initiative, and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Guy
Standing
Guy Standing
Theorist of the precariat, rentier capitalism and basic income, and co-founder of Basic Income Earth Network
Guy Standing is an economist and professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He advocates for a basic unconditional income. With more than 20 years of experience at the ILO where he worked on issues related to the insecurity and flexibility of work. In 2011, he published The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, in which he defined the precariat as a new emerging social class, made up of young people with no training from immigrant backgrounds, young graduates unable to find jobs adapted to their level of education, as well as the older middle class generation coming from working class backgrounds.
Recent Publications: "Basic Income: How We Can Make It Happen" (2017), "The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay" (2016), "A Precarious Charter: From Denizens to Citizens" (2014).
Lukas
Straumann
Lukas Straumann
Executive Director of the Bruno Manser Fund, association for the Peoples of the Rainforest in Malaysia
Once an autistic child whose mother tongue were numbers, Daniel Tammet is today the award-winning author of numerous international bestsellers, translated in over twenty languages. Polyglot, synaesthetic - he perceives words and numbers as shapes and colors -, he is considered as one of the "100 living geniuses". Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2012, he lives in Paris.
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Thompson
American journalist, writer-at-large for Guardian US, doctoral researcher on issues of race and mobilization at New York University
Steven W. Thrasher is Writer At Large for the Guardian US and a doctoral researcher at New York University, where he is completing a PhD in American Studies. In 2012, Thrasher was named Journalist of the Year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. In 2015, he won the Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism from the Gannett Foundation for reporting on HIV criminalization. His writing on the Black Lives Matter movement, LGBT rights and American culture has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire and the Journal of American History. He tweets at @thrasherxy.
Cyril
Thurston
Venezuelan human rights activist, spouse of Leopoldo Lopez, leader of the Voluntad Popular party, imprisoned and then placed under house arrest (by Video Conference)
Lilian Tintori is a Venezuelan activist for human rights. She became politically active when her husband, Leopoldo Lopez, leader of the Voluntad popular party, was arrested in 2014. She was stopped in 2017, accused of embezzlement, and forbidden to leave the country, while she was preparing to begin a tour of conferences and meetings in Europe to mobilize international support against human rights violations and violations of freedom of expression in her country.
Eric
Tistounet
Eric Tistounet
Head of the Human Rights Council, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Christian Tod is a filmmaker and an economist. In 2010 Christian Tod began working on Free Lunch Society, combining his expertise in both fields for a project he considers utterly important for the future of humankind: Unconditional Basic Income. Free Lunch Society, realized in cooperation with arte/ZDF (arte Germany/Second German Television) and ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation), premiered at CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival in March 2017 and has been invited to several dozen film festivals around the globe.
Rosemarie
Trajano
Rosemarie Trajano
Activist, Secretary General of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates, member of the OMCT General Assembly (by Skype)
Rosemarie Trajano is the Secretary General of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) since 2010, an advocacy alliance of more than 40 members nationwide coming from human rights groups, Indigenous Peoples, Muslim, women, workers, children promoting All Human Rights for All.
She is a Member of the Executive Council of Forum Asia, the Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), a member of the General Assembly Member of World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and Convenor of In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND).
Hemal
Trivedi
Special Rapporteur on the human rights implications of environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous products and wastes
Baskut Tuncak is an international lawyer specializing in the management of toxic chemicals, as well as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the Environmentally Sound Management and Disposal of Hazardous Products and Wastes. He is doing parallel research for the Raul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden. He gained experience in the field while working as a chemist for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Mila
Turajlic
Rafael Uzcátegui is the general coordinator of Provea, a Venezuelan organization for the defense of human rights. He is a Venezuelan sociologist and activist for opposition to the Chavez regime. He is also secretary of Patria Para Todos (PTT), a leftist party opposing Chavismo, and author of many articles, including for the newspaper El Libertario, and some books, such as "Venezuela: revolucion como espectacolo".
Director of the Metropolitan Community Clinic in Athens
Giorgos Vichas was born in 1961. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and specialized in Cardiology. He worked as a cardiologist in the public health system, as a clinician and as Head of the laboratory of ultrasound. In 2011, when the first effects of austerity policies in the health system and began to appear, Giorgos imagined and started to build the Metropolitan Social Clinic of Helliniko. This clinic offers free medical services to patients who have no access to the public health system. From 2011 on, the Metropolitan Clinic has offered free medical services to 60,000 patients, both Greeks and refugees. Giorgos has also been a member of the Athens Medical Association for 5 years. During this time, he traveled to almost all countries of Europe, to represent the social clinic, denounce austerity policies and their tragic consequences for citizens.
Xavier
Vidal-Folch
UN correspondent in Geneva of the Swedish Newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
Gunilla von Hall is a foreign correspondent for the largest Swedish daily newspaper, « Svenska Dagbladet ». She covers the United Nations, human rights, international and humanitarian affairs. She often travels for stories on these issue in the field and in conflict areas. Ms. von Hall has reported on wars and conflicts in more than 40 countries, including Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia and Sri Lanka. Ms. von Hall is the former President of the United Nations Correspondent´s Association in Geneva (ACANU). She has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Swiss Press Association (APES).
Saskia
von Overbeck Ottino
Saskia von Overbeck Ottino
Ethno-psychiatrist, associate doctor at the HUG, and president of the Psychoanalysis and Muslim Backgrounds Commission of the European Psychoanalytical Federation
Renata Vujica, 35, was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She left her country at the age of 9 just before the war started in Bosnia. Her father found work in the watch industry at Locle. During the war, her family decided to stay in Switzerland. She studied Political Science and worked in journalism and communication. She is also dedicated to music, performing with the duet "Ona and Lui"
Founder and Director of the Committee for International Justice and Accountability
Dr William (Bill) Wiley is a Canadian citizen with twenty years’ experience as a practitioner in the field of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law secured in the Middle East, Central Africa and Eastern Europe. He is the founder and director of the non-profit Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), a criminal-investigative body with the principal mission of preparing dossiers to a criminal law-standard of evidence in response to allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the belligerent parties to the Syrian, Iraqi and other conflicts.
Romed
Wyder
Israeli representative of Women Wage Peace, activist for refugees rights and president of the Bar David Museum for Israeli Art and Judaica
Studies in cultural research and mediation led Angela Yantian to commit to peace, particularly as an activist in the Women Wage Peace campaign, an inclusive movement of Israeli and Palestinian women fighting for mutual and peaceful agreements between the two parties. She is an Israeli, living in Kibbutz Baram, a village where everything is shared and collective, and is President of the Bar David Museum for contemporary Israeli art and for Judaica. She is very interested in cinema: in 2017, she produced a biographical documentary film.
Chin-Chin
Yap
Nancy Ypsilantis is a journalist at RTS. She was the producer and host of Babylon, which debates current issues related to human sciences, until 2016, and Impatience, a daily program dedicated to scientists, until 2012. She currently hosts the show "Chouette! which talks about humans by talking about animals.
Junling Zhang, 41, was born in Zhengzhou, China. While working as a Chinese teacher in the prestigious military academy, she met her husband from Italy in China during a conference. She decided to follow him to Geneva where she wrote her thesis on the diaspora of Chinese authors. She now teaches Chinese to women at the UN, and translates articles from English and French into Chinese.
Manuelle
Zibung
Kimberly is an intersex woman, lawyer, and Executive Director. of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth in the US. In 2015 she participated in an expert intersex meeting convened by the UN OHCHR in Geneva and consulted on the UN Free & Equal Campaign’s Intersex Rights Campaign. In 2015 she was appointed an Arcus Foundation Executive Leadership Fellow and since 2016 has been a member of the US Human Rights Networks International Mechanisms Coordinating Committee. In 2017 Kimberly contributed to the 10th anniversary supplementary document to the Yogyakarta Principles on SOGI, and currently serves as a member of the UN Women LBTI Reference Group. From 2013-2016 Kimberly consulted on the development of the first intersex main character on US TV for MTV’s “Faking it” and consulted on the production of the intersex content for Nat Geo’s 2017 “Gender Revolution.” She worked in partnership with model Hanne Gaby Odiele on her coming out as the most high profile intersex celebrity to date, and is currently consulting on the development of an intersex documentary series sharing real life intersex stories to increase visibility of intersex lives and human rights.
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