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Syria : guilty of inaction

With: Samar Yazbek, Syrian writer and opposition political activist Haytham Al-Maleh, Syrian lawyer, human rights defender and opposition political activist Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme Anouar Malek, writer and former observer for the Arab League in Syria Moderator : Hala Kodmani, journalist

Khmer Rouge: beyond good and evil

Rithy Panh, Cambodian film-maker François Roux, Duch's French lawyer Alain Werner, lawyer of the victims in Duch’s trial Lida Chan, jeune journaliste représentant la génération post khmer-rouge Moderator : Michel Beuret, Journalist - RTS / TSR

Native populations surviving on borrowed time

Introduction by Gilles Marchand, RTS Director, Gerald Staberock Secretary General of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Davi Kopenawa, Spokesperson and Chief of the Yanomami Indians Santiago A. Canton, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the Consultative Committee of the Human Rights Council Moderator : Jean-Philippe Ceppi, journalist, Producer of Temps Présent, RTS

Risking peace: the daring of reconcilers

Cornelio Sommaruga, former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Micheline Calmy-Rey, former Swiss President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed El Hacen Ould Lebatt, Special envoy of the Francophonie in the DRC and former Mauritanian Foreign Affairs Minister Moderator : Richard Werly, journalist - Le Temps

Reconciliation: a game of basque pelota

Gorka Espiau, basque film-maker Gorka Landaburu, Basque journalist, victim of ETA Pierre Hazan, member of the International Contact Group (IGC) for the conflict in the Basque country and lecturer at the University of Geneva Joxean Agirre, former ETA prisoner and member of the Abertzale left Angeles Escriva, editor in chief, el Mundo Moderator : Marc Decrey, journalist, RTS / RSR

Dangers of National Populism

Justine Masika Bihamba, president of the women’s rights organisation Synergie des Femmes pour les Victimes des violences Sexuelles, in the DRC Dismas Kitenge Senga, president of the Lotus Group and Vice-president of the FIDH (DRC) Me François Cantier, Member of the Lawyers’ collective for the defense of the Chebeya familly and founder of the French branch of Avocats Sans Frontière Moderator : Florent Geel, FIDH Desk Officer for Africa

Israel-Palestine: breaking the status quo

Elias Sanbar, Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO Yaël Dayan, Israeli writer and politician, daughter of Moshe Dayan Moderator : Romaine Jean, Deputy Editor-in-chief of News for RTS / TSR

To live and die for human rights in the DRC

Justine Masika Bihamba, president of the women’s rights organisation Synergie des Femmes pour les Victimes des violences Sexuelles, in the DRC Dismas Kitenge Senga, president of the Lotus Group and Vice-president of the FIDH (DRC) Me François Cantier, Member of the Lawyers’ collective for the defense of the Chebeya familly and founder of the French branch of Avocats Sans Frontière Moderator : Florent Geel, FIDH Desk Officer for Africa

From arab spring to islamist autumn?

Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisian blogger and journalist Sondos Asem, journaliste égyptienne et propagatrice de la révolution, à tendance islamiste Mansoureh Shojaee, Iranian Women Activist, writer and journalist Maryam Al-Khawaja, Head of Foreign Relations of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights

The sun has not set on Sri Lanka's war crimes

Louise Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Yasmin Sooka, lawyer, member of the UN Panel of Experts for war crimes in Sri Lanka Callum Macrae, british film-maker and writer Sunanda Deshapriya, Sri-Lankan journalist and activist Moderator : Jonathan Miller, Journalist, Channel 4

Laïcité Inch'Allah : discussion following the screening

with Nadia El Fani, director of the film

Under the yoke of financial markets

Roberto Lavagna, former Minister of the Economy of Argentina Charles Wyplosz, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, where he is Director of the International Centre for Money and Banking Studies. Martine Brunschwig Graf, president of the Federal Commission Against Racism and member of the Swiss Radical-Liberal Party Moderator : Frédéric Lelièvre, head of the economics section, Le Temps