Welcome to the annual Rafto Conference, a public conference with keynote speech by the Rafto Laureate and topics related to this year’s prize. This year the Rafto Conference will be livestreamed and we hope you can join us!
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The Rafto Conference 2020: Resisting Egypt’s State of Fear
Program
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms - Rafto Laureate 2020
MODERATOR
Adele Matheson Mestad – Director, Norwegian National Human Rights Institution
WELCOME AND OPENING STATEMENT
Jostein Hole Kobbeltvedt – Executive Director, Rafto Foundation for Human Rights
SPEAKERS
Mary Lawlor – UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Amr Magdi – Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Ruth Michaelson – Journalist, The Guardian
Other speakers TBA