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title: "Tomorrow: Human Rights Defenders Discuss Rights Violations in Syria at UN"
slug: "tomorrow-human-rights-defenders-discuss-rights-violations-in-syria-at-un"
post_type: "post"
published_at: "2010-09-22T01:00:00+01:00"
modified_at: "2010-09-22T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://cihrs.org/tomorrow-human-rights-defenders-discuss-rights-violations-in-syria-at-un/?lang=en"
category:
  - "International Advocacy Program"
causes_and_rights:
  - "Freedom of Association"
  - "Protection of Human Rights Defenders"
country:
  - "Syria"
field:
  - "Regional and International Protection and Advocacy"
interest:
  - "Events"
protection_and_advocacy:
  - "United Nations Human Rights Council"
---

# Tomorrow: Human Rights Defenders Discuss Rights Violations in Syria at UN

The President’s 10 Year Anniversary:
Curbing Worsening Repression and
Human Rights Abuses in Syria

Thursday 23 September
13.00 – 15.00
Palais des Nations, room XXIV

Human rights defenders and advocates discuss the legacy of torture, arbitrary detention, and repression of basic freedoms perpetuated during the past decade in Syria under Bashar al-Asad’s rule.

Arabic interpretation will be available

 **SPEAKERS**
Joe Stork, Deputy Director MENA Section, Human Rights Watch
Nidal Darwish, Committees for the Defense of Democracy Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria
Iyas Maleh, Director, Free Haitham Maleh Foundation
Ziad Abel Tawab, Program Officer, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Chair: Juliette De Rivero, Geneva Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch

Refreshments will be provided