Liberal International Human Rights Committee
Network of Liberal Parliamentarians on Human Rights
UNHRC Headquarters, Geneva, 23-24 June 2016
Imprisoned for Thinking
Programme of Events
FINAL VERSION
Thursday 23 June 2016
Time Activity
16:00 19:00 Arrival of LI delegates/ Registration in Hotel Best Western
Strasbourg
Rue Pradier 10
1201 Geneva
19:00-21:00 Welcoming Reception
Hosted by His Excellency Chih-Chen Yi, Director-General, Taipei
Cultural and Economic Delegation to Geneva
Hotel Warwick
Restaurant TESEO
14 Rue de Lausanne
Geneva 1201, Switzerland
Friday 24 June 2016
Time Activity
7:30 Meet at Hotel Best Western Strasbourgs Lobby for Departure to
Palais Des Nations
8:00-9:50 REGISTRATION AND UN PASSES ISSUANCE
Palais des Nations
Pregny Gate
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10
10:00 10:15 Welcoming Remarks
-Dr. Juli Minoves, LI President and Former Andorran Ambassador to
the United Nations
-Caroline Green, IFLRY Representative, Junge Liberale, Germany
10:15 11:30 Panel Political Prisoners: Silenced Democratic Heroes and the
Criminalization of Dissent
Chair:
-Markus Loening, LI Vice-President on the Bureau and Chairman of LI
Human Rights Committee; Vice-President on ALDE Party Bureau
Panel Discussion:
-Olga Tikhomirova, Director of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for
Freedom, Russia
-Medard Mulangala, Vice-President on ALN Bureau and LI HRC
Member, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Africa Liberal Network)
Palais des Nations, Geneva
Room XXI
11:30 11:45 Family Photo
11:45-12:00 Walk from the Meeting Room to the UN Restaurant
12:00 15:30 Working Lunch
Advancing and promoting civil and political rights through LI Human
Rights Committee
Welcome:
sa Nilsson-Sderstrm, Information Officer, Swedish International
Liberal Centre (SILC)
Moderator:
Markus Lning, LI VP and LI HRC Chair; ALDE-Party Vice-President
on the Bureau (Free Democratic Party, Germany)
Input:
-Lord John Alderdice, LI President of Honour and Honorary Patron of
LI Human Rights Committee (Liberal Democrats, UK)
-Assiatou Diallo Bah, Member of Parliament and LI HRC Member,
(Union des Forces Democratiques de Guinee, Guinea)
-Spela Kosic, Human Rights Expert, Permanent Representation of
Slovenia to the United Nations in Geneva
Restaurant de l'ONU
Palais des Nations
Genve, Switzerland
15:30 16:00 Networking
16:00-17:25 Freedom of expression denied: (Ab)use of the press in an age of
Terror and Oppression
Keynote Remarks
-Her Excellency Dunja Mijatovi, OSCE Special Representative on
Freedom of the Media
Chair:
-Baroness Kishwer Falkner, LI Vice-President on the Bureau; Member
of the House of Lords (Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom)
Panel Discussion:
-Mohamed Fahmy, Award-Winning Egyptian-born Canadian
journalist, former prisoner of conscience and founder of the Fahmy
Foundation for Free Speech
-Yavuz Baydar, Journalist and Founding Member of Platform for
Independent Journalism (P24)
Palais des Nations, Geneva
Room XXV
17:25-17:30 Closing
18:00-19:30 LI HRC Administrative Session (by invitation only)
- Liberal Internationals work of the United Nations
- LI HRC and the human rights work of member parties
- Liberal Internationals Human Rights Work and its role in the day to day
work of liberal parliamentarians
Rosset SA
Rue de Varembe 1A
Geneva 1202
20:30 Dinner with LI Bureau Members
(Self-Funded)
Saturday 25 June 2016
Time Activity
10:00-14:00 LI BUREAU MEETING
(by invitation only)
Rosset SA
Rue de Varembe 1A
Geneva 1202
