PROGRAMME

The programme of the Civil Society Forum included the following:

Friday 17th April

19.00 – 21.00, OPENING SESSION
Auditorium Arditi, 1 Av. Du Mail

Welcome from organizers :

Malaak Shabazz, Daughter of Malcolm X, Trustee Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Center
Professor DouDou Diene, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism
Anna Irma Rivera Lassen, Latin America and Caribbean NGOs group
Senator Anne-Marie Lizin, Honorary President, Belgian Senate
Liberato Bautista, UN Representative, United Methodist Church and President of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the UN (CONGO)
Chibo Oneyi, Vice President, European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
Oludore Ogunlana, Secretary General, All Africa Student Union (AASU)
Edna Roland, Brazil, Member of the Independent Eminent Experts Group to follow the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Remy Pagani, Deputy Mayor of Geneva

Professor Yash Tandon, Senior Advisor, South Centre
Mireille Fanon, President Frantz Fanon Foundation
Karl Flecker, Director for Human Rights, Canadian Labour Congress
Nimalka Fernando, President, International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
Humberto Brown, Latin America and Caribbean NGOs group
Violette Daguerre, President, Arab Commission for Human Rights
Rene Meyer, Geneva Trade Union Federation

For themes of working groups and location of meeting halls see here.

International demonstration against racism organized by Swiss organizations.
Depart from Place Neuve short distance from the Forum meeting halls.

See working groups here.

For themes of working groups and location of meeting halls see here.

Reports from the working groups
Presentation of the Geneva 2009 Declaration Against Racism
Ramsey Clark, former United States Attorney General (TBC)
Ambassador Francisco Lacayo, Special Advisor for Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights to the President of the UN General Assembly
Conclusion of Forum