Issue 572: Join UN Watch's Flagship Event of the Year

Join UN Watch’s Flagship Event of the Year

To take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 23, 2016.

Human Rights Heroes Coming to Geneva
For the eighth year in a row, UN Watch will lead an international coalition of 25 human rights groups to shine a rare international spotlight on some of the world’s worst human rights abusers, with victim testimonies about the actions of China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, the Islamic State, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Venezuela, as well on other urgent situations. Friends of UN Watch are welcome to join for all or part of this day-long conference, UN Watch’s flagship event of the year.

To register or for more information, click here. For those who cannot join in person, the event will be webcast live at www.genevasummit.org.

Featuring leading figures and human rights heroes from around the world:

Lord David Trimble on the UN Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, former First Minister of Northern Ireland	Vian Dakhil on ISIS Only female Yazidi member of Iraqi Parliament	Irwin Cotler on Human Rights Former Canadian Minister of Justice & MP, counsel to oppressed
Anastasia Lin on China Human rights advocate and Miss World Canada	Daniel Mekonnen on Eritrea Exiled Eritrean human rights lawyer and scholar	Darya Safei on Iran Campaigner for Iranian women’s rights
Maria Leissner on Democracy Secretary General, Community of Democracies	Mohamed Fahmy on Egypt Jailed journalist turned free speech campaigner	Svitlana Zalischuk on Russia-Ukraine Ukrainian Parliamentarian active in 2013 EuroMaidan movement
Orhan Kemal Cengiz on Turkey Turkish human rights lawyer, columnist and activist	Mitzy Capriles on Venezuela Wife of imprisoned mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma	Jigme Golog on China-Tibet Tibetan monk, former political prisoner, human rights activist

Jan Ilhan Kizilhan on ISIS
German psychologist who created a clinic
for women raped by ISIS

For more information, visit www.genevasummit.org