Nobel Peace Conference 2023: HUMAN RIGHTS HEROES

The Nobel Peace Conference is always free and open for all. You can watch the recording of the of the conference stream.

Ghawgha Taban

Artist in residence, Harstad, Norway, with Solveig Wang

Kjersti Fløgstad

Executive Director, Nobel Peace Center

Marianne Borgen

Mayor of Oslo

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2003

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Head of Center for Civil Liberties, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022

Mary Lawlor

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

Jan Rachinsky

Chair, Memorial International, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca

Vice President of Freedom House

Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1992, in conversation with Samí activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen. Moderator: Aili Keskitalo, Political advisor, Amnesty International Norway

Natallia Pinchuk

Wife of Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2022

Beatrice Fihn

Former Executive Director of ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2017, in conversation with Gina Gylver, Head of Young Friends of the Earth, Norway. Moderator: Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Human Rights Watch

SOLUTIONS SESSION:

Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, State Secretary, MFA, Norway, John Peder Egenæs, Amnesty Int. Norway, Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy, Human Rights Watch, Anne-Marie Helland, Director, Risk Services, PWC.

FINALE:

Presentation of The Sunflower Declaration; A call to action to support human rights defenders at risk.

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After the conference, we welcomed to our free and open-for-all festival outside the Nobel Peace Center

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