Friday, 19 September 2014 from 9.15 to 10.45am

Palais des Nations, Geneva, Room XXIV

Please join us for this important Human Rights Council side-event with international experts and national human rights defenders to discuss recent developments and next steps in the protection of civil society space and the prevention of reprisals.

Opening remarks

• Olivier de Frouville, member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances and member-elect of the UN Human Rights Committee

Panelists

• Reine Alapini-Gansou, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
• Stephania Kulaeva, Director, Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, Russia
• Patricia O'Brien, Ambassador of Ireland to the UN
• Eleanor Openshaw, Reprisals Advocacy Manager, International Service for Human Rights

Moderator

• Michael Ineichen, Human Rights Council Advocacy Director, ISHR

For those unable to attend, the event will be webcast at www.ishr.ch/webcast. You can also follow the event on Twitter @ISHRGlobal, using the hashtag #ProtectCSS.

If you would like to attend but do not have UN accreditation, please email [email protected] before 12 noon on 16 September.