9:20 AM

Panel 1: Women

Moderator
Kristen Timothy
United Nations Coordinator of the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women (USA)

Voices
Marcella Goheen, playwrite, The Maria Project (USA)
Kavita, Shakti Shalili (India)

Speakers
The Honourable Christine St Pierre
Vice-President, Special Commission on the sexual exploitation of minors, Québec’s National Assembly; Former Minister of International Relations and La Francophonie; Former Minister of Status of Women (Canada)

The Honourable Kasthuri Patto
Member of Parliament, Malaysia; International Secretary, Democratic Action Party (DAP); Board member, Parliamentarians for Global Action (Malaysia)

Lopa Banerjee
Director, Civil Society Division, UN Women (India)

Dubravka Šimonovic 
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (Croatia)

Riitta Särkelä 
Secretary General, Federation of Mother and Child Homes and Shelters (Finland)

Tamar Schwartz 
Chief Executive Officer, Ruach – Nashit, Women’s Spirit (Israel)

Voices
Alexander Colli, Director, Futebol Viral; formerly Flamengo Soccer Team (Brazil)
Fikiri Nzoyisenga, Founder and Executive Director, Youth Coalition Against Gender-based Violence – SEMERERA (Burundi)

Moderator’s Sumary

Q&A

Intermission
Song:  Waited Too Long — The Summit’s Anthem by Peter Campbell (Australia)

12:25 AM

Panel 3: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Moderator
Nazeeha Saeed
Journalist from Bahrain, MENA Coordinator in OutRIght Action International (Bahrain)

Voices
Djamil Bangoura, Founder and President of Prudence Plus (Senegal)

Speakers
Moe Hamandi 
Member of the Board of Montreal Pride; Governor of the Emergence Foundation (Canada)

Minou Tavarez Mirabal  
Former Presidential Candidate; former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, former parliamentarian and President, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) (Dominican Republic)

Ekaterina Svetashkova
Speech Monitoring, LGBT Group Stimul (Russia)

Casey Pick (She/Her)
Senior Fellow for Advocacy & Government Affairs, The Trevor Project (USA)

Voice
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on Sexual orientation and gender Identity (Costa Rica)
Marina Fedeeva, Psychologist, LGBT Group Stimul (Russia)

Moderator’s Summary

Q&A

9:10 AM

Panel 4: Persons with Disability and/or Chronic Illness

Moderator
Her Excellency Ambassador Catalina Devandas Aguilar 
Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Costa Rica, United Nations, Geneva; Former Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Costa Rica)

Voices
Lyazzat Kaltayeva (Kasakhstan)
Noella Ndayikeza – Union of Disabled Persons in Burundi (Burundi)

Speakers
The Honorable Dennitah Ghati
Member of Parliament for Persons with Disabilities, Kenya National Assembly; Member, Parliamentarians for Global Action (Kenya)

Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Head, World Health Organization’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research unit addressing vulnerable populations (AVP) (Mexico)

Gerard Quinn 
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Ireland)

Dr Alessandra Aresu
Humanity & Inclusion (Formerly, Handicap International) (Italy)

Victor Calise
Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (USA) (Invited)

Voice
R. (Argentina)
Easter Achieng Okech – Kenya Female Advisory Organization, (Kenya)

Moderator’s Summary

Q&A

Intermission
Song: Brides for Sale by Sonita Alizadeh (Afghanistan)

12:00 Noon

Panel 6: Refugees and Migrants

Moderator
Liv Tørres
Director, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at NYU CIC, New York; former Executive Director at the Nobel Peace Center and Secretary General of the Norwegian People’s Aid (Norway)

Voice
Julie Schweickert, From Lesvos (The Netherlands)
Pshtiwan Faraj, Independent Media Organization in Kurdistan (Iraq)      

Speakers
Richard J Towle 
Deputy Director of the NY office, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (New Zealand)

Leslye Orloff
Director, Director, National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project American University, Washington College of Law (USA)

Ghida Anani 
Founder and Director, ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality (Lebanon)

Uzoma Agwu, 
President, Forward Ahead Educational and Health Care Initiative (Nigeria)

Dr. Lilla Hárdi
Cordelia Foundation (Hungary)

Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing (USA)

Voice
Halyna Skinalska, Executive Director, Ukranian Foundation for Public Health (Ukraine)
W., (Rwanda)
Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner, Head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna (Austria)
Steven M. Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City, NJ (USA)

Moderator’s Summary

Q&A

Close of Day 2
Song:  Waited Too Long — The Summit’s Anthem by Peter Campbell (Australia)

9:10 AM

Panel 7: Roundtable

Moderator
Edward Mortimer
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; former Director of Communications for UNSG Kofi Annan (United Kingdom)

Voice
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University (USA)
Corey Zaharuk, Superintendant, Investigative Services Division, Regina Police Service (Canada)
Nilfur (Tajikistan)

Speakers
Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein 
Former High Commissioner for Human Rights; Former Ambassador to the United Nations (Jordan)

Miwa Kato
Director, Division of Operations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Japan)

Nafissatou Diop
Chief, Gender and Human Rights Branch, Technical Division, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (Senegal)

Victor Ochen
African Youth Initiative Network (Uganda)

Dr. Yael Danieli
Founder, International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC 
Secretary General of the Commonwealth (Connecting from Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters in London, United Kingdom)

Moderator’s Remarks

Q&A

Intermission
Song:  Waited Too Long — The Summit’s Anthem by Peter Campbell (Australia)