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200+ Inspiring Talks

Voices from China’s Concentration Camps

One Pastor’s Rescue Mission

Nicaraguan Democracy Advocate

ATLYS Musical Performance

Ariana Vafadari Musical Performance

The Moral Mirror: Using Space to Monitor Human Rights Around the World

Inside Tajikistan’s State of Fear

The Art of Choosing Love

Egyptian Musician in Exile

Human Rights Is a Global Fight

My Quest for Acceptance

Burma’s Broken Promise

The Uyghur Crisis: China’s Cultural Genocide

Under the Umbrella: Creative Dissent in Hong Kong

Icarus and Russia’s Olympic Doping Scandal

The Language of Nonviolence

What Happens Next?

Democratization in Thailand: 100 Years of Struggle

From Despair to Hope: The Chronicles of Sudan’s Peaceful Revolution

Stop Executions in the Islamic Republic

Big Data and Human Rights

Cuba: Nothing Left To Lose

Stand-up performance

Adapting to the Global Rise of Authoritarianism

Uyghur European Ensemble Performance

Gambia’s Visible Sexual Assault Survivor

A Conversation with Bryan Fogel, Director of “The Dissident”

The Poison of Putin’s Regime

From Hong Kong to the World: Activism in Exile

A Conversation with Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey

A Bright and Free Future for North Korea

Leading Belarus’ Democratic Movement

2020 Havel Prize Ceremony: Baiducao, Omar Abdulaziz, and Kizito Mihigo

Women Under Threat

Yemen’s Assault on Media

Youth Are Not the Future

Why We Need to Speak Up for Eritrea

Wikipedia and Exposing the Truth

Women Against Honor Punishment

Whitewashing Western Sahara’s Struggle for Freedom

Who is Killing Bangladesh’s Bloggers?

Why Boris Nemtsov is Important for Russia

Why China Wants the World to Forget the Tiananmen Massacre

Why Vietnam Silenced a Pop Star

What is Rwanda’s Government Hiding?

What Surviving a Terrorist Attack Taught Me

Wedding Busters

Welcome to Norway

What Happened to Libya’s Revolution?

Using the Law to Defeat a King

Venezuela Under Siege

Voices From the Internet Underground

Watching the Watchmen

We Demand Freedom for China’s Political Prisoners

Unmasking Evil

Unmasking Ortega’s Regime

Unrigging an Election

Using Media to Fight Homophobia in Uganda

United For Iran

Unmasking Burma’s Junta

Tyrants and Technology

Uganda’s Nuremberg Laws

Uganda’s War Against Gays

Unbinding the Women of Sudan

Turkey and the Loss of Democracy

Turkey’s Authoritarian Drift

Turn Your Floodlights On

Treating the Invisible Wounds of Torture

Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution

Three Dimensions of Transparency

To Be With You and Nightingale (Live in Oslo)

Too Young to Wed

Transcending Hate

Transforming Media, Transforming Women

Theatre of Resistance

They Who Stand Most Alone

Three China’s and the Rest of the World

The White Helmets

The Women Calling for Yemen’s Spring

The World’s Biggest Financial Scandal

The Untouchables of India

The Voice of Women is a Revolution

The West’s Attack on Free Speech

The Whistleblower

The Struggle of Turkey’s Kurds

The Student vs. The Military

The Success of Nonviolent Struggle

The Standing Man

The Statistics of Human Rights

The Strength of Satire

The Secret of Singapore

The Singing Revolution

The Six Four Incident

The Sound of Defiance

The Responsibility of a Free Society

The Revolution Will Be Encrypted

The Rise of the New Dictators

The Price of Mexico’s Drug War

The Promise of Psychedelics for PTSD

The Quest for a Better Ukraine

The Power of One

The Power of Pop Culture

The Powers and Dangers of the Internet

The Price of Freedom for North Korean Women

The Police State of the Future is Already Here

The Post-Conflict Mind

The Power of Nonviolence

The Mind of a Dictator

The Myth of Han China

The New Generation in Equatorial Guinea

The Lessons of Sudan’s Past

The Liberating Power of Storytelling

The Long Road to Freedom

The Historic Impact of Aid

The Historical Truth Behind Mao’s China

The Human Cost of the War on Drugs

The Impact of Indifference

The Killing Fields

The Global Jihadist Insurgency

The Greatest Coverup in U.N. History

The Future of Egypt

The Future of Freedom

The Gambia’s Silenced Dissent

The False Promise of Saudi Reform – A Conversation with Manal al-Sharif

The Fiery Heart of Uzbekistan

The Fight for a Free Ukraine

The Forces of Change in North Korea

The Frontlines of Saudi Arabia’s New Media War

The Drug Laws That Are Tearing Mexico Apart

The Erosion of Democracy in Bolivia

The Evolution of Money

The Dictator’s Learning Curve

The Drive for Freedom

The Caucasian Knot

The Cruel Cut

The Cruel Cut

The Cruel Cut

The Democratic Rebellion

The Breaking of a Man

The Case for Economic Freedom

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Birth of a Thousand Mothers

The Art of Dissent

The Art of Forgiveness

The Ascent of Libyan Civil Society

The Assault on Venezuela’s Free Press

The Attack on Gay Rights in Uganda

The Aid Debate

The Arab Spring Manifesto

The Art of Activism

Terrorism and Impunity in Argentina

The $42 Million Op-Ed

The Afghan Dreamers

Syria: No Turning Back

Syria’s Uncovered Story

Tech Against Corruption

Ten Years in North Korea’s Gulags

Superheroes Against Extremism

Supply Chain Slavery

Survivor’s Journey

Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones

Stones Into Schools

Stopping Congo’s War on Women

Sonata in A Major and A Felicidade

Sri Lanka’s Deadly Profession

Stain on the Rainbow Nation

Standing Up for Freedom in Russia

Singing Truth to Power

Soft Power and Global Peace

Solidarity

Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child and Whoopie

Saving Your Digital Soul

Seeking Justice in Chad

Shielding Free Speech Online

Saudi Women’s Spring

Saving Democracy from Disinformation

Saving the World’s Poor

Rule of Law for Sale

Rule of Law: Afghanistan’s Best Hope

Russia’s Propaganda War

Russians Are Ready for Democracy

Russians are Ready for Freedom

Royal Rules in Saudi Arabia

Rule of Law For All

Reversing Freedom’s Decline

Revolution 101

Rise of an Elected Autocrat

Refugees and Human Rights

Remembering Iran’s Prisoners

Reporting from an Island Prison

Repression in Brazil: Past and Present

Rethinking Poverty

Rebuilding Afghanistan

Reform in Burundi

Re-Arrange Again

Re-energizing Human Rights

Ready for Change

Protesting for Democracy

Psychedelics, Marijuana, and Healing PTSD

Putin’s Next Move: A Conversation with Garry Kasparov & Ian C. Kelly

Putin’s Mafia State

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Prisoner of Tehran

Promoting Freedom with Decentralized Apps

Performance: Comedic Freestyle

Performance: Myeong Seong-hee

Platform of Possibilities

Painting a Massacre

Peace Can Be Scary

Pedagogy of Suffering

Performance: “Freedom” & “Don’t Say a Word”

Out of the Shadows Out of the Closet

Outlawing Child Marriage

Outmaneuvering State Control

Outrunning Genocide

Organizing the Opposition

Orphaned

Orwell, Spraypaint, and the Fight to Free Cuba

One Yazidi Against ISIS

Opening a Window into Cuba

Opening Moment

On Air and Under Attack in Kosovo

On the Way Down and Can’t Take My Soul

One Day Seyoum

One Million Bones

Notes to My Activist Self

Nothing Left to Fear: The Struggle for a New Somalia

Omid: An Iranian Memorial

North Korea’s Black Market Generation

North Korea’s Freedom Fighters

North Korea’s Rising Civil Society

My Struggle for Burma’s Future

Name, Shame, and Jail

Negotiating Peace

No Escape from Eritrea

My Life For Democracy

My Role in Acting for Change

My Fight For a Free Cambodia

My Impossible Escape from North Korea

My Journey from North Korea to America

My Life as a Dissenter

Mobilizing with Art

Mosul Eye

Mugabe’s Reign of Terror

My Escape from North Korea

Mexico’s Rule of Impunity

Mining in Africa for the 21st Century

Malaysia: A Story of Hope

Malaysia’s Most Wanted

Mali’s Islamist Takeover

Mapping Human Trafficking

Letter from a Bahraini Prison

Literature, Freedom, and Power

Live from the Oslo Freedom Forum

Look Away

Lukashenko’s Iron Grip

Laos: Where Dissidents Disappear

Let Cuba Decide

Keynote Address

Knick vs. Dictator: A Conversation with Enes Kanter

Laogai: The Chinese Gulag

It Happened Before, It’ll Happen Again

Justness for All

Kazakhstan’s Great Façade

Kazakhstan’s Human Rights Desert

Investing in Free Press

Iran’s Awakening

Iran’s Weapon of Choice

Inside the Mind of a Digital Attacker

Inside the Mind of an Extremist

Internal Exile in the Soviet Union

Individual Freedoms in Islamistan

Indonesia’s Hidden Colony

Innovative Financing for Development

Inside China’s Digital Authoritarianism

Inside the Global Arms Trade

In the Kingdom of Obiang

In the Shadow of Liberia’s Civil War

Independent Media is the Answer

In Putin’s Shadow

In the House of an Ayatollah

If You Don’t Want to Be Alone

In Conversation with Philippa Thomas: Turkey and the Loss of Democracy

In Conversation with Srdja Popovic: Revolution for Dummies

In Conversation with Thor Halvorssen

In Mugabe’s Crosshairs

How Online Activism is Bringing Democracy to Togo

Human Rights and Political Leadership

I Am a Ukrainian

How Girls Are Using Robotics to Build Their Futures

How Islam Works with Democracy

Heroes of Bahrain’s Revolution

Hiding from the Taliban in Plain Sight

Hiding from the Taliban in Plain Sight

How Afghan Women Are Coding For Tomorrow

How Corruption Created Boko Haram

Hacking North Korea’s Information Monopoly

Haiti’s Human Property

Healing Kashmir

Google’s Think-Do Tank

Greetings From Cell G4

Growing Wealth, Shrinking Democracy

Gabon’s Endangered Activists

Girl Powered: The Future of Tech in Afghanistan

Girls Not Wives

Giving Voice to Malawi’s Youth

From Egypt to Taiwan: Shared Hopes for LGBTQ Equality

From Famine to Freedom: A North Korean’s Story of Escape

From Stardom to the Political Underground

From Subtle Dictatorship to Subtle Revolution

Freedom’s Counsel

Freeing North Korea with Flash Drives

Freeing the Daughters of Nepal

Free to Offend

Freedom to Protect the Environment

For a Free North Korea

For Your and Our Freedom. 1968-2014

Forbidden Faith in Vietnam

Forced to Fight

Free Speech in a Globalized World

Fighting For My Father’s Freedom

Fire Under the Snow

Façade Capitalism and Its Threat to Human Rights

Faure Must Go

Fighting Dictatorship in Cambodia

Exposing a Nation of Spies

Exposing China’s AIDS Crisis

Exposing Hamas’s Rule

Exposing the Crimes of ISIS

Exposing Tyranny in Belarus

Everday Lives in North Korea

Everywhere I Go (Live in Oslo with the Norwegian Girls’ Choir)

Evolution of Censorship

Escape the Internet

Escaping Iran’s Dungeons

Ending Anti-Gay Violence in Jamaica

Ending Dictatorship and Building Democracy—With a Pencil

Ending Human Trafficking: How Technology Can Save Lives

Ending Slavery in Mauritania

Enemies of Free Speech

Egypt’s Revolutionary Censors

Elected Autocrats

Elected in Ecuador, Imprisoned for Dissent

Devil’s Advocates

Drawing a Line in Venezuela

Drømmen om Morrada’n

Economic Sustainability in Authoritarian Systems

Democracy in Exile

Democracy Under Threat

Detecting a Dictatorship

Dangerous Words

Dawn of a New Arab World

Death and the Democratic Deficits in Duterte’s Drug War

Defeating Dictators

Defending Democracy

Corruption Panel Speech

Corruption Panel Speech

Cuba’s Underground Revolution

Coordinating People Power

Corruption Panel Q&A

Corruption Panel Speech

Competitive Authoritarianism

Condemned to Venezuela’s Prisons

Confronting Half a Century of One-Party Rule

Consent of the Networked

China’s Hidden Market

China’s Inevitable Transformation

Comedic Performance

Comedic Performance

Coming Out in the Middle of a Revolution

China’s Dark Secret

China’s Inevitable Transformation

China’s Information War

Chechnya’s Witness

Chess, Human Rights, and the Self

Censorship in an Age of Freedom

Challenging Europe’s Last Dictator

Challenging Power

Changing the Custom of Corruption

Chechnya’s Leader in Exile

Caricatura Subversiva

Cartooning the Prophet

Catalysts

Censorship for Sale

Building a Free Syria One Town at a Time

Can Decentralized Technologies Preserve Democracy?

Can Iran Take a Joke?

Breaking Free of Bahrain’s Regime

Breaking the Myth of North Korea

Building a Free Pakistan

Beneath the Killing Fields of Cambodia

Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State Panel

Blockchain: Virtual Nations

Blueprint for Revolution

Banks Not Tanks

Bearing Witness for Iran

Behind Communism’s Curtain

Avenging Magnitsky’s Murder

Azerbaijan’s Secrets

Bahrain’s Inconvenient Revolution

Anti-Semitism in Venezuela

Arab Spring Generation

Arab Uprisings: One Year Later

Argentina’s Desaparecidos

Arming Women for Peace in Libya

All Rights for all People

Ammon’s Horn & Wake the Earth

An Artist’s Call for Vietnam’s Freedom

After the Coup in the Maldives

Against All Hope

Africa’s Tech Frontier

Africa’s Military Scourge

African, Muslim, and Gay

After Tehran

After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed

A Vote for Cuba’s Future

A Welcome to Norway

Abolishing Child Marriage

Advocates for Freedom

A Story of Life and Death

A Tribute To Boris Nemtsov

A Tyrant’s Best Friend

A Modern Day Abolitionist

A New Kind of Diplomat

A North Korean Rescue Story

A Conversation with Pussy Riot

A Conversation With Thor Halvorssen on Eritrea

A Counter-Productive War

A Different Kind of Warfare

A Million Shining Lights

2018 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

6,000 Miles to Freedom

A China More Just

2017 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2018 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2015 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2015 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2015 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2017 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2017 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2013 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2013 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2014 Keynote Address

2012 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2012 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

2013 Havel Prize Acceptance Speech

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