TIME (SLST | UTC+5:30)

AGENDA*

08:45 – 09:15

Registration

09:15 – 09:30

Exhibition Opening 

09:30 – 09:40

Opening Remarks: Power and Privilege - The Invisible Majority

Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, MSF South Asia

09:40 – 10:25

Keynote Address: Gender, Protection and Reproductive Rights

Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat, and human rights advocate, Former UN’s Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012

10:25 – 11:45

Panel Discussion 1
Through Her Eyes: Understanding women’s vulnerabilities in migration

Paula Gil, President of MSF Spain

Sergio Martín, MSF Asia, Chief of Operations

Hafsar Tameesuddin, Co-Secretary General, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network

Priyali Sur, Founder and the Executive Director of The Azadi Project

Moderator: Dr Santhushya Fernando, Senior Lecturer, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

11:45 – 12:05

TEA BREAK 

12:05 – 12:45

Wave side Conversation 1
Convergence for Change: Dynamics of Regional Solidarity

Ambassador Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary of India

Dr Farhat Mantoo, Executive Director, MSF South Asia 

Heela Najibullah, Peace and Conflict Researcher from Afghanistan

Moderator: Dr Ravi Rannan-Eliya, Director, Institute of Health Policy, Sri Lanka

12:45 – 14:00

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30

Boundaries, Blind Spots, and Breaking Points: Building a Better World for Women

Lina AbiRafeh, Arab-American Women’s Rights Activist & Author

14:30 – 15:40

Panel Discussion 2
Structural Inequity: Access to medical treatment in an unequal health and R&D system

Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni, Senior policy and technical advisor to UNAIDS and the People Vaccine Alliance on access to COVID-19 health technologies

Dr Unni Krishnan Karunakara, Former MSF International President & Senior Fellow, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School, United States

Eldred Tellis, Founder & Director, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust & Activist for Access to Medicines

Moderator: Ghada Khemissi, Head of Programmes Unit, MSF South Asia

15:40 – 16:00

TEA BREAK

16:00 – 16:40

Wave side Conversation 2 
Reclaiming Spaces: Collective Action to safeguard civil society

Marvi Sirmed, Political Commentator from Pakistan, Journalist, and Human Rights Activist

Bhavani Fonseka, Constitutional & Human Rights Lawyer & Activist, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka

Smriti Singh, Regional Director, Amnesty International, Sri Lanka

Moderator: Ruki Fernando, Human Rights Defender, Writer and Educator from Sri Lanka

16:40 – 16:50

Closing Remarks  

Dr Unni Krishnan Karunakara, Former MSF International President & Senior Fellow, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School, United States

*Subject to change