DECEMBER 4, 2012, The Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 8th Floor

Welcome and Opening Message

Elisa Massimino
President & CEO
Human Rights First

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (by video)

Kenneth R. Feinberg
Feinberg Rozen, LLP

America and the World: Global Attitudes

Does the Ascendance of Political Islam Threaten Human Rights?

Robert Kagan
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Zied Ladhari
Member of the Constituent Assembly and of the political bureau of al-Nahdha (Tunisia)

Robin Wright
Journalist, Author, Foreign Policy Analyst

Rodger Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award Luncheon honoring the Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Senator Dick Durbin

Aryeh Neier
President Emeritus, Open Society Foundations

William D. Zabel
Chair, Human Rights First

Maryam Al Khawaja
Acting President, Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Big, Important, and Challenging: What should the U.S. do in countries where its human rights promotion policies aren’t working?

Can the Arab Spring Be a Human Rights Success Story?

Nadine Wahab
International Advocacy Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (Egypt)

Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Human rights and democracy activist, writer and university professor (Egypt)

Michele Dunne
Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council

Maryam Al Khawaja
Acting President, Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Dr. Adel Iskander
Adjunct Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture and Technology program, Georgetown University

Respect for International Law and U.S. Leadership on Human Rights

Harold Hongju Koh
U.S. Department of State

Screening of THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
2012 Sundance Film Festival

A film by Eugene Jarecki, from Executive Producers Danny Glover, John Legend, Brad Pitt, and Russell Simmons

Hart Auditorium, Georgetown University Law Center; Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and other guests

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DECEMBER 5, 2012, The Newseum, Knight Conference Center, 7th Floor

Where is the common ground in fixing our broken immigration system?

Atrocities Prevention: Should halting the world’s worst crimes be at the top of America’s national security agenda?

Ambassador Richard Williamson
Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Michael Abramowitz
Director of the Committee on Conscience
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg
President, Connect U.S. Fund

Keynote Address

Senator John McCain

Luncheon: Why and how should American companies promote human rights?

Michael Posner
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State

Marcela Manubens
Chair, GSCP

Elliot Schrage
Vice President of Communications and Public Policy, Facebook

Christine Bader
Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Eric Biel
Acting Associate Deputy
Undersecretary for International Affairs
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor

Michael Garland
Assistant Comptroller for Environmental, Social and Governance at New York City Office of the Comptroller

What are the human rights implications of new technologies in confronting threats to national security?

Richard Verma
Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Mona Sutphen
Managing Director, UBS AG

Richard Fontaine
President, Center for New American Security

Maj. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF (Ret.)
Former Deputy Judge Advocate General of the United States Air Force

Keynote

Looking for Leadership: What do human rights activists want from the United States?

Video message from Ai Weiwei (China)

Cristina Hardaga
Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (Mexico)

Haris Azhar
Coordinator of KontraS (Indonesia)

Julius Kaggwa
Executive Director of SIPD (Uganda)

Oleg Kozlovsky
Democracy activist, political scientist (Russia)

Dr. Rula Al Saffar
Medic (Bahrain)

Lorne Craner
President, International Republican Institute

Keynote

Beacon Prize Dinner honoring Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens (posthumous)