The speakers’ interventions

Name of the debate	Medias at disposal
Plenary session: Business and the death penalty	Video message : Richard Branson, Entrepreneur, Founder of Virgin Group – United Kingdom *Message vidéo* / *Retranscription* Carleen Pickard, Ethical Campaigns Specialist, LUSH Cosmetics – Canada *Vidéo Lush / Powerpoint / Retranscription* Nadia Benhida, Executive Director, Zino Mar – Morocco *Intervention* Emmanuel Oudar, CEO, Tout terrain, ECPM Board member – France Retranscription vidéo / Powerpoint Sune Skadegård Thorsen, CEO, Global CSR, expert in Corporate Social Responsibility – Denmark *Powerpoint* Video message : Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, European Union *Retranscription / Video message*
Abolition strategies: challenges and opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa	Cheick Sako, Minister of Justice – Guinea Urbain Yameogo, CIFDHA Executive Director – Burkina Faso Powerpoint Maryann Njau-Kimani, Chair of the Taskforce on the review of the mandatory nature of the death penalty – Kenya Powerpoint Mohamed Ali Mossaad, Director of the African Centre for Justice & Peace – Sudan Powerpoint Raphaël Nyabirungu Mwene Songa, Professor and Lawyer – DRC Intervention
Roundtable: Foreigners sentenced to death in the fight against terrorism	Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Intervention James Connell, Learned Counsel, Military Commissions Defense Organization – USA Intervention Hédi Yahmed, Journalist – Tunisia Intervention
Workshop: Death row prisoners and their families: assistance and support	Ensaf Haidar, President and Co-founder, Raif Badawi foundation for freedom – Canada Intervention
Roundtable: How to prevent the resurgence of the death penalty?	Yuval Shany, Chair or the United Nations Human Rights Committee Powerpoint Sandrine Dacga, Lawyer and member of the Cameroonian Network of Lawyers Against the Death Penalty – Cameroon Powerpoint Powerpoint Intervention Fatimata M’Baye, President, Mauritanian Association of Human Rights – Mauritania Intervention
Workshop: Abolition generation: young people join the movement!	Apollinaire Lenovo, Lawyer and President of Justice impartiale – Cameroon Powerpoint Hajer Ben Naceur, Trainee lawyer and member of the Tunisian Organisation Against Torture – Tunisia Powerpoint Aymane Aouidi, Steering Committee member, Moroccan Coalition against the death penalty – Morocco Powerpoint
Training: Keys for preparing a funding proposal	Maria Orejas, Policy and Programmes Director, European Foundation Centre – Belgium Powerpoint
Roundtable: The discriminatory application of the death penalty towards women	Delphine Lourtau, Executive Director, CornellCenter on the Death Penalty Worldwide – USA Powerpoint Susan Kigula, witness – Uganda Danthong Breen, Senior Advisor, Union for Civil Liberty – Thailand Intervention Angela Uwandu, Head of Office, Avocats Sans Frontières France – Nigeria Presentation Powerpoint
Workshop: New technologies and the death penalty	Tom Waldron, Senior Vice President, The Hatcher Group – USA Powerpoint Sarah Belal, Director, Justice Project Pakistan – Pakistan Powerpoint Lesedi Bewlay, Light Touch Support Coordinator, The Engine Room – Botswana Powerpoint
Training: UN advocacy: using the UPR and Treaty Bodies to advocate for abolition	Anna-Karin Holmlund, Senior UN advocate, Amnesty International – United Kingdom Powerpoint Intervention
Roundtable: Reducing the scope of the death penalty	Shreya Rastogi, Founding member of Project 39A, National Law University Delhi – India Powerpoint Naomi Lynton, Lawyer – Barbados Presentation Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights – Norway Powerpoint Andrew Khoo, Lawyer – Malaysia Powerpoint Mohammad Musa Mahmodi, Executive Director, Independent Human Rights Commission – Afghanistan Powerpoint
Workshop: New strategies for abolition	Chiara Sangiorgio, thematic Adviser, Amnesty International – United Kingdom Intervention Hsin-Yi Lin, Director, Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty – Taiwan Powerpoint
Training: Advocating for abolition with community and religious leaders	Jeanie Ollivierre (absent), Training and public relations officer, SVG Human Rights Association – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Powerpoint Intervention