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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


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Panel II (Part 2):

Discussion cont.

 

 

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