{"id":1517117,"date":"2024-02-24T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/?p=26129"},"modified":"2024-02-24T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T09:15:29","slug":"ishr-side-event-supporting-the-work-of-human-rights-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/24\/ishr-side-event-supporting-the-work-of-human-rights-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"ISHR side event: SUPPORTING THE WORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/97549cf8cb507607389fe76eb\/images\/f5cfc7e9-bf2a-4d12-f77b-ee1ba1bbf5ee.jpg\" width=\"564\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Freedom of Speech Includes The Press by Narih Lee under CC 2.0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>INVITATION<\/strong> to the side event: <strong>IN DEFENCE OF CIVIC SPACE AND DEMOCRACY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS<\/strong> on <strong>Monday 26 February 2024<\/strong>, <strong>1pm\u00a0&#8211; 2pm CET<\/strong>, <strong>Room XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva<\/strong><br><br>Human rights defenders promote democracy and a vibrant civic space, too often, in dangerous circumstances. This event aims to discuss the crucial work of defenders, how the international community can best support them and how crucial gender equality is for the full realisation of democracy.<br><br><strong>Speakers:\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of democratic forces (Belarus) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sara Abdelgalil, Paediatric Consultant NHS UK, Democracy &amp; Governance\u00a0Advocate, Active member of Sudanese Diaspora <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Lynch, Executive Director, International Service for Human Rights <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator:\u00a0<\/strong>Imogen Foulkes, BBC Geneva <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A light lunch will be served.\u00a0The event will be recorded and published as a podcast (Inside Geneva, produced by Swiss Broadcasting).<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/97549cf8cb507607389fe76eb\/images\/e67ff719-ba62-a019-f307-716fc6b807ad.png\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Download flyer here<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/humanrightsdefenders.blog\/2024\/02\/24\/ishr-side-event-supporting-the-work-of-human-rights-defenders\/\">Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Freedom of Speech Includes The Press by Narih Lee under CC 2.0 INVITATION to the side event: IN DEFENCE OF CIVIC SPACE AND DEMOCRACY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS on Monday 26 February 2024, 1pm\u00a0\u2013 2pm CET, Room XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva Human rights defenders promote democracy and a vibrant civic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74959,2743,74960,2751,6,1438,1424,34951,2742,49176,72306,74961,44509,33286,2788],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517118,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517117\/revisions\/1517118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}