https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/events/nobel-peace-conference
The time for the event is 13:00-17:00 in Oslo
The Nobel Peace Conference is free and open for all. You can join us online or physically (limited number of seats)
PROGRAMME
13:00 - 13:15
OPENING SESSION
Ghawga Taban
Artist in residence, Harstad, Norway, with Solveig Wang
Kjersti Fløgstad
Executive Director, Nobel Peace Center
Marianne Borgen
Mayor of Oslo
13:15 - 14:00
SESSION 1: When ordinary people do extraordinary things
Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2003
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head of Center for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022
Mary Lawlor
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
14:00 - 15:30
including break 14:25-14:55
SESSION 2: Nobody plans to give up
Jan Rachinsky
Chair, Memorial International, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca
Vice President of Freedom House
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1992, in conversation with Samí activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen. Moderator: Aili Keskitalo, Political advisor, Amnesty International Norway
15:30 - 16:30
SESSION 3: Defending the defenders
Natallia Pinchuk
Wife of Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022
Beatrice Fihn
Former Executive Director of ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2017, in conversation with Gina Gylver, Head of Young Friends of the Earth, Norway. Moderator: Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Human Rights Watch
SOLUTIONS SESSION:
Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, State Secretary, MFA, Norway, John Peder Egenæs, Amnesty Int. Norway, Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy, Human Rights Watch, Anne-Marie Helland, Director, Risk Services, PWC.
FINALE:
Presentation of The Sunflower Declaration; A call to action to support human rights defenders at risk.
Learn more about the conference speakers!
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After the conference, we welcome you to join our free and open-for-all festival outside the Nobel Peace Center
