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Saad Eddin Ibrahim will speak at next week’s summit
What does the resurgence of political Islam in the Middle East mean for human rights? What should the U.S. do in countries where its human rights promotion policies aren’t working? How can we help make the Arab Spring a human rights success story? What are the human rights implications of new technologies in confronting threats to national security?These are some of the questions to be addressed at next week’s 2012 Human Rights Summit.
| DECEMBER 4, 2012, The Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 8th Floor, Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC. Register Now | Tuesday, December 4 | Wednesday, December 5 | |||
| Time | Panel | Participants | |
| 8:15 AM | Doors open | ||
| 8:30 AM | Opening Message | Elisa Massimino President & CEO Human Rights FirstSecretary of State Hillary Clinton (by video)Ken Feinberg Feinberg Rozen, LLP | |
| America and the World: Global Attitudes | Jim Clifton Chairman & CEO, Gallup | ||
| 10:00 AM | What does the resurgence of political Islam in the Middle East mean for human rights? | Robert Kagan Senior Fellow, Brookings InstitutionZied Ladhari Member of the Constituent Assembly and of the political bureau of al-Nahdha (Tunisia)Robin Wright Journalist, Author, Foreign Policy Analyst | |
| 11:15 AM | Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award Luncheon | Video message from Ai Weiwei (China)Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)Aryeh Neier President Emeritus, Open Society FoundationsHonoree: Bahrain Center for Human Rights Maryam Al Khawaja Acting President | |
| 12:45 PM | Big, Important, and Challenging: What should the U.S. do in countries where its human rights promotion policies aren’t working? |
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| 2:15 PM | How can we help make the Arab Spring a human rights success story? | Ziad Abdel Tawab Deputy Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Egypt)Alya Awada Activist and Journalist (Lebanon)Nadine Sherif International Advocacy Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Egypt)Saad Eddin Ibrahim Human rights and democracy activist, writer and university professor (Egypt)
Michele Dunne Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council |
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| 3:30 PM | Respect for International Law and U.S. Leadership on Human Rights | Harold Koh Legal Advisor, U.S. State Department | |
| 5:00 PM | A Post-Election Look at U.S. Strategies and Priorities: What public diplomacy challenges lie ahead? | Participants to be announced | |
| 7:00 PM | Screening of THE HOUSE I LIVE IN Winner of the Grand Jury Prize 2012 Sundance Film Festival | A film by Eugene Jarecki, from Executive Producers Danny Glover, John Legend, Brad Pitt, and Russell SimmonsHart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center; Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and other guestsRSVP here | |
| DECEMBER 5, 2012, The Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 7th Floor | |||
| Time | Panel | Participants | |
| 8:15 AM | Doors open | ||
| 8:30 AM | Where is the common ground in fixing our broken immigration system? |
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| 10:00 AM | Atrocities prevention: Should halting the world’s worst crimes be at the top of America’s national security agenda? | Richard Williamson Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global AffairsMike Abramowitz Director of the Committee on Conscience United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | |
| 11:15 AM | Keynote Address | Senator John McCain | |
| 12:00 PM | Why and how should American companies promote human rights? | Michael Posner Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of StateMarcela Manubens Corporate Responsibility Officer, PVH CorporationElliot Schrage Vice President of Communications and Public Policy, Facebook Christine Bader Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Eric Biel Acting Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor Mike Garland Assistant Comptroller for Environmental, Social and Governance at New York City Office of the Comptroller |
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| 1:30 PM | What are the human rights implications of new technologies in confronting threats to national security? | Richard Verma Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLPMona Sutphen Managing Director, UBS AGRichard Fontaine President, Center for New American SecurityCharles J. Dunlap Jr. Former Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force | |
| 2:45 PM | Keynote | Dr. Bassma Kodmani (Syria) | |
| 3:45 PM | Looking for Leadership: What do human rights activists want from the United States? | Cristina Hardaga Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Mexico)Haris Azhar Coordinator of KontraS (Indonesia)Julius Kaggwa Executive Director of SIPD (Uganda)Oleg Kozlovsky Democracy activist, political scientist (Russia)
Dr. Rula Al Saffar Medic (Bahrain) Lorne Craner President, International Republican Institute* |
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| 6:30-9:30pm | Beacon Prize Dinner honoring Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens (posthumous) | By invitation only with remarks from Ambassador Robert Ford | |
*One of the core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy.
