Programme

09.00-10.00Rights & Resistance: How to Turn the Tide

Keynote speech

Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of international development


No democracy without a strong civil society

Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian People's Aid 


The greatest threat to democracy is not autocracy; it's hypocrisy

Iyad El-Baghdadi, Founder and President, Kawaakibi Center


Climate change impacts our rights

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Indigenous Rights Activist 

10.00-10.45Coffee break
10.45-12.00Authoritarian Powers on the Rise: The State of the Open Society

Progress is possible

Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General, Norad


Can reversed rights be reclaimed? Confronting the downward shift in civic space. CIVICUS report presentation

Lysa John, Secretary General, CIVICUS


Shaken, not deterred: Africans continue to have faith in democratic governance. How can it be sustained, deepened?

Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, Co-founder and Board Chair, Afrobarometer


The declining success-rate of non-violent movements and what to do about it?

Marianne Dahl, Senior Researcher, PRIO


Panel: Backlash of rights – what should be the role of international democracy promoters?

Lysa John, Secretary General, CIVICUS, Raymond Johansen, Secretary General, Norwegian People’s Aid, Marianne Dahl, Senior Researcher, PRIO, Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General, Norad. Moderator: Haakon Gjerløw, Senior Researcher, PRIO.

12.00-12.50Lunch
12.50-13.50Fighting the Backlash of Women’s Rights

Let women and girls lead

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, UNAids


Education for positive change, a part of the equation

Joanna Herat, Acting Chief of Section for Health and Education, UNESCO


From Moral Outrage to Action

Ayesha Wolasmal, Independent Consultant


Panel discussion: Navigating the backlash

Winnie Byanyima, Joanna Herat, Mamta Murthi,Vice President for Human Development, World Bank. Moderator: Ayesha Wolasmal

13.50-14.20Coffee break
14.20-15.00Securing Land Rights for People & Planet

The power and potential of inclusive conservation: The approach of the Global Environment Facility

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility (GEF)


Panel discussion: Are communal land rights making a comeback?

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Hindou Ibrahim, Lars Løvold, Special Advisor, Rainforest Foundation Norway. Moderator: Nonette Royo, Executive Director, Tenure Facility

15.00-16.00Ukraine – Building an Open Society in the Shadows of War

Keynote speech

Mustafa Nayyem, Head of the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine 


The future of democracy in Ukraine

Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University


The All-Out War on Truth

Sevgil Musaieva, Chief Editor, Ukrainska Pravda


Reporting during war: Independent press and information warfare in Ukraine

Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda and Bård Vegar Solhjell, Director General Norad