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Opening of the Forum. High-level Segment

Zohrab Mnatsakanyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia

Since May 12, 2018, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.
In 1990, he graduated from the Department of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1991, he received a Master of Arts degree in Western European Politics from the Department of Politics, Economic and Social Studies of the Victoria University of Manchester.
He has been working in various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia since 1991, including as the Head of European Department (1998-1999) and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011-2014).
In 1993-1997 he served as second, then first secretary at the Embassies of the Republic of Armenia in the United Kingdom and Holy See. More

Zohrab Mnatsakanyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia

Since May 12, 2018, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.
In 1990, he graduated from the Department of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1991, he received a Master of Arts degree in Western European Politics from the Department of Politics, Economic and Social Studies of the Victoria University of Manchester.
He has been working in various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia since 1991, including as the Head of European Department (1998-1999) and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011-2014).
In 1993-1997 he served as second, then first secretary at the Embassies of the Republic of Armenia in the United Kingdom and Holy See. More

Adama Dieng

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Adama Dieng, a Senegalese jurist, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on 1 September 2012. More

Adama Dieng

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Adama Dieng, a Senegalese jurist, was appointed as Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on 1 September 2012. More

Henry Theriault

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Henry Theriault is the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University, after 19 years in its Philosophy Department. Theriault’s research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, denial, atrocity prevention, and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured around the world and published numerous journal articles and book chapters, edited two books, and coauthored with Samuel Totten The UN Genocide Convention: A Primer (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press). He is founding co-editor of the Genocide Studies International journal, and from 2007 to 2012 he was co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention. Since 2007 he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is co-author More

Henry Theriault

UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

Henry Theriault is the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Worcester State University, after 19 years in its Philosophy Department. Theriault’s research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, denial, atrocity prevention, and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured around the world and published numerous journal articles and book chapters, edited two books, and coauthored with Samuel Totten The UN Genocide Convention: A Primer (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press). He is founding co-editor of the Genocide Studies International journal, and from 2007 to 2012 he was co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention. Since 2007 he has chaired the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group and is co-author More

Fernand de Varennes

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

Dr Fernand de Varennes is Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria (South Africa), Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland-Galway, Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (China) and holds the mandate of United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues. He is renown as one of the world’s leading experts on the international human rights of minorities, has focused particularly on issues surrounding languages, and has worked and written in areas of international law such as the prevention of ethnic conflicts, the rights of migrants, the relationship between ethnicity, human rights and democracies, as well as the use of federalism and other forms of autonomy. Dr de Varennes’ research and publications record spans more than 200 publications in More

Fernand de Varennes

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

Dr Fernand de Varennes is Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria (South Africa), Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland-Galway, Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (China) and holds the mandate of United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues. He is renown as one of the world’s leading experts on the international human rights of minorities, has focused particularly on issues surrounding languages, and has worked and written in areas of international law such as the prevention of ethnic conflicts, the rights of migrants, the relationship between ethnicity, human rights and democracies, as well as the use of federalism and other forms of autonomy. Dr de Varennes’ research and publications record spans more than 200 publications in More

Mô Bleeker

Chair of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes – Platform for Prevention – GAAMAC

Mô Bleeker chairs the Global Alliance Against Mass Atrocity Crimes- prevention platform since its creation in 2013. She acts as the Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities of Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA where she has been working in different positions since 2003. Mrs. Bleeker has accompanied complex political processes of transition in numerous and different contexts and continents (Central America, Colombia, the Balkans, South-, Southeast-and Central Asia as well as in several different regions of Africa). Currently, she also serves in Colombia as Special Envoy for the Peace Process between ELN and the Colombian Government and the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the FARC and the Government. She also acted as Chair of the Transitional justice and Reconciliation Commission- TJRC of More

Mô Bleeker

Chair of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes – Platform for Prevention – GAAMAC

Mô Bleeker chairs the Global Alliance Against Mass Atrocity Crimes- prevention platform since its creation in 2013. She acts as the Special Envoy for Dealing with the Past and Prevention of Atrocities of Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA where she has been working in different positions since 2003. Mrs. Bleeker has accompanied complex political processes of transition in numerous and different contexts and continents (Central America, Colombia, the Balkans, South-, Southeast-and Central Asia as well as in several different regions of Africa). Currently, she also serves in Colombia as Special Envoy for the Peace Process between ELN and the Colombian Government and the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the FARC and the Government. She also acted as Chair of the Transitional justice and Reconciliation Commission- TJRC of More

Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni

Rapporteur of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE

Dr Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni was elected Rapporteur of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions at the 2016 Annual Session in Tbilisi and re-elected at the 2017 Annual Session in Minsk and at the 2018 Annual Session in Berlin. As a Rapporteur he has authored the Report and Resolution of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions for the years 2017/2018, while previously he authored a Resolution on “Missing Persons in connection with Armed Conflicts” (2015).
He has been a Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus since 2006, where he serves as the Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs and Culture. He is also a Member of the Committee on Refugees-Enclaved-Missing-Adversely Affected Persons. More

Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni

Rapporteur of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE

Dr Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni was elected Rapporteur of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions at the 2016 Annual Session in Tbilisi and re-elected at the 2017 Annual Session in Minsk and at the 2018 Annual Session in Berlin. As a Rapporteur he has authored the Report and Resolution of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions for the years 2017/2018, while previously he authored a Resolution on “Missing Persons in connection with Armed Conflicts” (2015).
He has been a Member of the House of Representatives of Cyprus since 2006, where he serves as the Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Educational Affairs and Culture. He is also a Member of the Committee on Refugees-Enclaved-Missing-Adversely Affected Persons. More

Dunja Mijatović

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Dunja Mijatović was elected Commissioner for Human Rights on 25 January 2018 by the Parliamentary Assembly and took up her position on 1 April 2018. She is the fourth Commissioner, succeeding Nils Muižnieks (2012-2018), Thomas Hammarberg (2006-2012) and Alvaro Gil-Robles (1999-2006).
National of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has been working to promote and protect human rights for the past two decades, thus acquiring extensive knowledge in the field of international monitoring, in particular as regards freedom of expression.
Prior to her appointment as Commissioner for Human Rights, she has served as OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017), Director of Broadcast of the Communications Regulatory Agency of More

Dunja Mijatović

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Dunja Mijatović was elected Commissioner for Human Rights on 25 January 2018 by the Parliamentary Assembly and took up her position on 1 April 2018. She is the fourth Commissioner, succeeding Nils Muižnieks (2012-2018), Thomas Hammarberg (2006-2012) and Alvaro Gil-Robles (1999-2006).
National of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has been working to promote and protect human rights for the past two decades, thus acquiring extensive knowledge in the field of international monitoring, in particular as regards freedom of expression.
Prior to her appointment as Commissioner for Human Rights, she has served as OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017), Director of Broadcast of the Communications Regulatory Agency of More