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UNESCO, in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, is organizing a commemoration event and panel discussion on the theme “From hate speech to genocide” on the occasion of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on 7 April at 9am EST.

The roundtable will be moderated by Stephen Smith, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education, Executive director, USC (University of Southern California) Shoah Foundation - Institute for Visual History and Education (USA), with the participation of:

·       Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO

·       Susan Benesch (USA), Director of the NGO Dangerous Speech Project

·       Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi, (Argentina), President of Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes and President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

·       Marcel Kabanda (France), Historian of Rwanda and former President of Ibuka France

·       Freddy Mutanguha (Rwanda), Survivor and Executive Director of the genocide prevention NGO Aegis Trust

·       Tali Nates (South-Africa), Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

·       François Xavier Ngarambe, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Rwanda to France, Permanente Delegate of Rwanda to UNESCO

·       Paul Rutayisire (Rwanda), Historian of Rwanda, National University of Rwanda

·       Alice Wairimu Nderitu, United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide