2011 Human Rights Defenders Policy Forum
April 5-6, 2011
The Carter Center
Religion, Belief, and Women's Rights April 5
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Welcome
Karin Ryan Director, Human Rights Program
Dance Performance: Rebecca Davis Dance Company
Video: Speech by Jimmy Carter to the Parliament of World Religions
Opening Address
Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center
Navi Pillay U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Renewing Moral Norms
Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Panel I: Affirmation and Transformation: Reinventing and Replacing Social Norms
Feature: Communities Transformed: Oureye Sall and Molly Melching, Tostan, Senegal |
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Panel I cont.
Panel Moderator: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Contributors: Julienne Lusenge, SOFEPADI, DRCongo Pastor James Byensi, Rebuilders Church, Eastern Congo Ella Musu Coleman, National Traditional Council of Liberia Pewee Flomoku, The Carter Center, Liberia Ratna Osman, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia Marina Mahathir, Musawah, Malaysia
Respondent: Alison Boden, Dean of Religious Life, Princeton |
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Panel II: Shifting Dogma and Tradition: Affirming Human Dignity through Sacred Literatures
Remarks by Rt. Rev. Ezekiel Kondo, Bishop of Khartoum, Sudan
Moderator: Dianne Diakité, Emory Department of religion
Intimate violence as an issue of social justice:
Panelists: Sindhi Medar-Ghould, BAOBAB, Nigeria Rana Husseini, Journalist/expert on Honor Killings, Jordan Timothy Njoya, Men for the Equality of Men and Women, Kenya Gistam Sakaeva, Doveriye, Chechnya Ann Kruger, Georgia State, Trafficking of Girls and Women
Respondent: Lynne Hybels, Willow Creek Church |