East Turkestan: 60 Years under the People’s Republic of China
Past, Present and Future
18 – 19 May 2009
Washington DC, USA
- Programme -
Monday 18 May
10.30 Registration: National Endowment for Democracy
11.00 – 12.00 Introduction / Opening Session
Opening statements
Rebiya Kadeer, President, World Uyghur Congress (WUC)
Marino Busdachin, General Secretary, UNPO
Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Mr. Hans Hogrefe (Director of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission)
12.00 – 13.30 Panel I -- “The War on Terror; persecution, stigmatization and preventive strike”
Panelists:
Moderator: Mr. Alim Seytoff (General Secretary, Uyghur American Association)
Ms. Sarah McKune (Human Rights in China)
Dr. Sophie Richardson (Advocacy Director Asia Division, Human Rights Watch)
Mr. T. Kumar (Advocacy Director Asia & Pacific, Amnesty International USA)
Q & A Round
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.00 Panel II -- “Religious Freedom; constitutional right in vain?”
Provisional Panelists:
Moderator: Henryk Szadziewski (Office Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Ms. Kara Abramson (Advocacy Director, Congressional-Executive Comm’ on China)
Ms. Louisa Coan Greve (Director of East Asia, National Endowment for Democracy)
Ms. Amy Reger (Principal Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Q & A Round
6.00 – 16.15 Break
16.15 – 17.45 Panel III -- “Meaningful Autonomy & Politics of Demography; economic, social and cultural challenges”
Provisional Panelists:
Moderator: Ms. Louisa Coan Greve (Director of East Asia National Endowment for Democracy)
Mr. Ulrich Delius (Director Asia, Society for Threatened Peoples)
Mr. Joshua Cooper (Hawaii Institute for Human Rights)
Senator Marco Perduca (Italian Senator)
Q & A Round
Tuesday 19 May
08.30 – 10.30 Panel I -- “The War on Terror; persecution, stigmatization and preventive strike”
Round table discussion on future policy
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12.45 Panel II -- “Religious Freedom; constitutional right in vain?”
Round table discussion on future policy
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 16.00 Panel III -- “Meaningful Autonomy & Politics of Demography; economic, social and cultural challenges”
Round table discussion on future policy