Panel Sessions
Videos
Inaugural panel or session:
Panel 1:
Panel 2:
Panel 3 :
Panel 4:
Special Panel on Panchen Lama:
Special Panel on Tibet Brief 20/20:
Geneva Forum 2021 Speakers
Inaugural Panel
Penpa Tsering
President
Central Tibetan Administration
Chhimey Rigzen
Representative,
Tibet Bureau Geneva
Nicolas Walder
Member of Parliament,
Switzerland
Jiri Oberfalzer
Vice-President, Senate of the Parliament,
Czech Republic
Gelencsér Ferenc
Deputy Mayor of 1st District Budapest,Hungary
Panel 1 : Social and Cultural Rights Violations by China
Tencho Gyatso
Interim Vice President and Director of Outreach
International Campaign for Tibet
Karma Choeying (Chairperson)
Secretary
Department of Information and International Relations, CTA
Dr. Michael van Walt van Praag
International lawyer, mediator and advisor , and professor of international law and international relations
Dolkun Isa
President of the World Uyghur Congress and Vice-President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO)
Tsolmongerel Orkhonselenge Khatagin
Secretary
International Human Rights Center for Mongolians
Panel 2 : Cultural Genocide in Tibet
Dr. Tenzin Desal
Senior Research Fellow
Tibet Policy Institute
Sonam Frasi (Chairperson)
Representative
Office of Tibet London
Dr. Martin Mills
Director
Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research at the University of Aberdeen
Donnet Pierre-Antoine
French journalist
Vijay Kranti
Senior Media Professional
Kashmir Origin
Panel 3 : Economic Rights Violations by China
Dr. Adrian Zenz
Senior Fellow
China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Thinlay Chukki
Former Special Appointee for Human Rights, Tibet Bureau Geneva
Marco Respinti
Italian professional journalist, essayist, translator, and lecturer
Mr. Tashi Phuntsok (Chairperson)
Representative
EU and Western Europe, based in Brussels
Panel 4 : China’s Footprint Overseas: Impacting Human Rights at the Global Level and the Way Forward
Kelsang Gyaltsen
Former Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Dr. Tenzin Desal (Chairperson)
Senior research fellow
Tibet Policy Institute
Hon. André Gattolin
Senator, French Parliament
Dr. Martin Hala
Director, Sinopsis
Laura Harth
Italian political activist for human rights
Special Panel on : Tibet’s Stolen Child 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima
Penpa Tsering
President,
Central Tibetan Administration
Dukthen Kyi (Chairperson)
Head of UN, EU, and Human Rights Desk
Karma Choeying
Secretary
Department of Information and International Relations, CTA
Tenzin Thupten Rabyal
Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, India
Mr Kai Müller
Executive Director, International Campaign for Tibet, Germany
Special Panel : on Tibet Brief 20/20
Kalden Tsomo
UN Advocacy Officer
The Tibet Bureau, Geneva
Dr. Michael van Walt van Praag
International lawyer, mediator and advisor , and professor of international law and international relations
Declaration
Closing Speaker
Penpa Tsering
President,
Central Tibetan Administration
Hon. André Gattolin
French politician and academic
Hon.Zdenek Hrib
Mayor of Prague,
Czech Republic, Switzerland
Schedule
Nov 1, Mon
Inaugural Panel
- 2 to 3:30 pm
- (India time)
- 9:30 to 11:00 am
- (Geneva time)
- 3:30 to 5:00 am
- (New York time)
Nov 1, Mon
Panel 1
- 4:00 to 5:30 pm
- (India time)
- 11:30 to 1:00 pm
- (Geneva time)
- 2:30 to 4:00 am
- (New York time)
Nov 1, Mon
Panel 2
- 7 to 8:30 pm
- (India time)
- 2:30 to 4:00 pm
- (Geneva time)
- 8:30 to 10:00 am
- (New York time)
Nov 1, Mon
Special Panel on Panchen Lama
- 9:00 to 10 pm
- (India time)
- 4:30 to 5:30 pm
- (Geneva time)
- 10:30 to 11:30 am
- (New York time)
Nov 2, Tue
Special Panel on Tibet Brief 20/20
- 2:00 to 3:00 pm
- (India time)
- 9:30 to 10:30 pm
- (Geneva time)
- 3:30 to 4:30 am
- (New York time)
Nov 2, Tues
Panel 3
- 3:30 to 5:00 pm
- (India Time)
- 11:00 to 12:30 pm
- (Geneva Time)
- 2:00 to 3:30 am
- (New York Time)
Nov 2, Tue
Panel 4
- 6:30 to 8 pm
- (India Time)
- 2:00 to 3:30 pm
- (Geneva Time)
- 8:00 to 9:30 am
- (New York Time)