Repression and Resilience: Human Rights in Tibet and Regions under China
Panel Sessions
VIDEOS
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Inaugural panel/session
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Panel Session 2
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Special Panel: 2
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Tibet Museum Exhibition
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Special Panel- 1
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Panel Session- 4
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Panel Session- 1
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Panel Session- 3
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Closing Panel
[/ultimate_heading]Geneva Forum 2026 Speakers
Inaugural Panel
Ms. Thinlay Chukki
Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Bureau, Geneva
Dilara Bayrak
VP, Grand Council for Geneva
Laurence Fehlmann Riell
MP, Member of the National Council, Switzerland
Paloma Dominguez Ugarte
MP, Mexico City, Mexico
Pavel Fischer
Senator, Czechia
Michael Brand
MP, Parliamentary State Secretary, Germany
Penpa Tsering (Chairperson)
President (Sikyong), Central Tibetan Administration
Thematic Panel 1 – Uncovering Violations: Human Rights Review of Regions under China
Mr. Fang Xiangui (Christian)
Chinese Human Rights Lawyer, UK
Mr. Johnny Fok (Ka Chi Fok)
Barrister- at-Law and an advocate for democracy in Hong Kong
Mr. Lee Chung Lun
China Programme Officer at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
Dr. Tenzin Desal
Senior Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute, CTA
Ms. Zumretay Arkin
Vice President of the World Uyghur Congress
Karma Choeying (Chairperson)
Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration
Thematic Panel 2 – Examining State Narratives: Development and Dispossession
Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang
Research Fellow at Leiden University’s International Institute for Asian Studies.
Dr. Gyal Lo
Tibetan activist and Educational Sociologist
Dr. Martin Hala
Founder and director of sinopsis.cz
Dr. Sophie Richardson
Co-Executive Director CHRD and senior China advisor to Climate Rights International
Special Panel 1 – Endangering the Roof of the World: Environmental Exploitation and Displacement in Tibet
Dr. Jagannath Panda
Head of the Stockholm Center for SCSA-IPA at the ISDP, Sweden
Dr. Ute Wallenböck
Research associate at the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany
Dr. Tsewang Dorji Jeshong
Research Fellow atthe Tibet Policy Institute
Ms. Mercè Monje Cano (Chairperson)
Secretary- General of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
Thematic Panel 3 – Breaking the Silence: Surveillance, Censorship, and Transnational Repression
Dr. Bonnie Yushih Liao
Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Tamkang University
Dr. Mareike Ohlberg
Senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund
Prof. Ralph Weber
Professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Ms. Tenzin Choekyi
Senior Researcher at Tibet Watch
Special Panel 2 – Sacred Choice, Legal Rights: Building Global Understanding of Reincarnation
Ms. Kate Saunders
Tibet specialist and co-founder of Turquoise Roof
Prof. Cameron Warner
Associate Professor, Aarhus University, and Chair of the Leadership and Reincarnation of the Dalai Lamas Research Network
Mr. Alexandr Neuman
Former secretary to President Vaclav Havel
Ms. Kateřina Procházková (Chairperson)
An analyst at Sinopsis in Prague
Thematic Panel 4 – What Next? Advancing International Accountability and Multilateral Responses
Prof. Nicolas Levrat
UN Special Rapporteur for Minority Issues and Professor of International Relations & European Law
Dr. Bill Hayton
Author, Editor of Asian Affairs and Associate Fellow
Dr. Maria Blancas
Former Diplomat, Mexixcan Foreign Service & International Relations Professional
Dr. Tenzin (Tendor) Dorjee
Senior Researcher and Strategist at Tibet Action Institute
Ms. Uzra Zeya
President & CEO. HRF and Former US Special coordinator for Tibetan Issues
Ms. Thinlay Chukki (Chairperson)
Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Bureau, Geneva
Closing Session Panel
JEANNERET Cedric
Grand Counseil Geneve
Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata
Senator of the Italian Republic
Karma Choeying
Secretary, Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration
Greg G.D. Lee
Ambassador Director General, Taiwan
Delphine Klopfenstein Broggini
Member of Parliament, Switzerland
Penpa Tsering
President (Sikyong), Central Tibetan Administration
Ms. Thinlay Chukki (Chairperson)
Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Bureau, Geneva