Name: Time for Security
Start: 2016-12-03T14:30:00-0600
End: 2016-12-03T16:00:00-0600

The world’s greatest forum for civil society, goverments and the private sector working together to fight corruption.

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Time for Security

Governments, activists, ordinary citizens and journalists too often live under danger caused by terrorism, trafficking, organised crime and state repression. These threats are weakening civic space at an unprecedented pace. Increasingly, civil liberties such as freedom of speech, association or assembly have been closed under the guise of national, regional or even global security. How can governments and society work together to fight organised crime, trafficking, terrorism and state capture alike while upholding the civic space?

Moderators

Jess Search

Chief Executive, Doc Society

I am Chief Executive of Doc Society, which together with the Bertha Foundation and Transparency International, is programing the Films for Transparency at the IACC.Doc Society funds and champions social justice films which fight corruption globally. We co-produced CITIZENFOUR which... Read More →

Speakers

Michel Forst

United Nations, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

The mandate on the situation of human rights defenders was established in 2000 by the Commission on Human Rights (as a Special Procedure) to support implementation of the 1998 Declaration on human rights defenders. In 2014, with resolution 25/18, the Human Rights Council, decided to continue the mandate on human rights defenders for a consecutive period of three years. In June 2014, Mr. Michel Forst (France) was appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human righ... Read More →

Liu Jianchao

Vice Minister of National Bureau of Corruption Prevention

Liu Jianchao, born February 23, 1964, Jilin Province, is the current Ambassador of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the Republic of Indonesia. He was formerly the chief spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the former director-general of its Information... Read More →

Magdy Martínez-Solimán

UN Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Assistant Administrator, UNDP

Magdy Martínez-Solimán is Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and UNDP’s Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. Prior to this appointment he was the Deputy Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP. He is a lawyer... Read More →

Barbara Trionfi

Executive Director, Austria, International Press Institute (IPI)

Barbara is executive director at the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to safeguarding and fostering media freedom and promoting quality, independent journalism.Barbara joined IPI in 2000... Read More →

Ivan Velasquez

Commissioner, International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala

Saturday December 3, 2016 14:30 - 16:00 CST
Master Plenary Hall

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17th IACC

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