New York - Side event in the framework of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly: Human rights defenders more than ever at risk

Event

25 October 2011

New York

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH),

the International Service for Human Rights

and

the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations

Human rights defenders more than ever at risk

The event did focus both on the Annual Report 2011 of the Observatory and the report to the 66th session of the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders,

Ms. Margaret Sekaggya

Panel of Speakers

Margaret Sekaggya

UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

Gerald Staberock

Secretary General

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Introduction by Gerald Staberock

Souhayr Belhassen

President

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Luis Arriaga

Former Director

Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (PRODH Center)

and a member of OMCT General Assembly, Mexico

Justine Masika Bihamba

Coordinator

NGO “Women’s Synergy for the Victims of Sexual Violence” (SFVS) Democratic Republic of Congo

Moderated by

HE Tine Mørch Smith

Deputy Permanent Representative

Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations

OMCT,FIDH and ISHR wish to thank the European Union and the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations for their support to this event