Event

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Venue : 
National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights

Place de la Résistance
Esch-Alzette

Time :
7.30 pm

Language :

English with french translation

Participants :

Taysir Mathlouthi – Senior EU Advocacy Officer at 7amleh

Tenzin Namgyal – Tibetan human rights defender

Magdalèna Bordagorry – Policy and Network Coordinator at EU-LAT Network

Amnesty France – Campaigning against public use of facial recognition

Luc Dockendorf – Luxembourg’s Ambassador for Cybersecurity and Digitalisation

Moderator

Dr. Salomé Lannier – Researcher at the University of Luxembourg

Free admission

The stifling of dissent through anti-democratic laws and expanding systems of digital surveillance is driving a dramatic shrinking of civic space worldwide. This not only enables the targeting, silencing, and criminalisation of human rights defenders, but also allows authoritarian states to extend their repression across borders. Across the world, the security of individuals and organisations defending human rights are threatened.

The round-table seeks to raise awareness of such troubling situations and to promote critical reflection on how they may most effectively be addressed. The Panel will bring together human rights activists working for Latin America, Palestine, Tibet and here in Europe to testify how human rights defenders are being watched, threatened, restricted, or pressured into silence, whether through digital surveillance or other forms of repression, and how these evolving methods affect their daily work and personal safety. We will critically reflect on how communities are resisting the erosion of civic space: how we can learn from each other’s strategies, strengthen collective support, and confront both newly emerging digital tools of repression and older tactics that have been adapted or intensified. Ultimately, we ask: How can we bring our diverse struggles together to defend and expand civic and democratic space, while recognising and acting upon the subjectivity and intersectionality of these lived experiences?

This round table is organised by four Luxembourg NGOs active in the field, Action Solidarity Tiers Monde, Amnesty International Luxembourg, Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche Orient and Les Amis du Tibet, Luxembourg.

As part of the open-air exhibition DÉFENSEURS DES DROITS HUMAINS

To the Exhibition

AEIN Website    CPJPO Website    FDH Website    Amis du Tibet Website    SOS Faim Website    Amnesty Website