Our Key Speakers

International Leaders

Max Wyman

Canada

Leading cultural commentator and Chair of the Canadian National Commission for UNESCO

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Pauline Audrey McLean

Jamaica

Adjunct Professor of Research Methods

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Romina Marconi

Ecuador

International Personal Assistant to the Secretary General of UNASUR

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Ahmed Sayyad

Yemen

UNESCO Assistant Director-General for External Relations

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Leighton Naraine

Guyana

Research Manager and Former Acting Vice Principal, Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College

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Nada Al Nashif

Jordan

Assistant Director, UNESCO

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Mariano Jabonero

Spain

Secretary General, Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI)

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Pedro Monreal 

Cuba

Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences Sector at UNESCO Headquarters

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María Eugenia Morales de Sierra

Guatemala

Deputy Human Rights Prosecutor

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Maria Do Socorro Gomes Coelho

Brazil

President, World Peace Council

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Pierre Sané

Senegal

Assistant Director-General, Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO

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Mauricio Dorfler 

Bolivia

Former Vice-Minister, Foreign Affairs of Bolivia

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Francisco Piñón

Mexico

Secretary-General, Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI)

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Ernesto Samper

Colombia

President, Colombia (1994–1998); Secretary-General, UNASUR

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Catalina Andujar

Dominican Republic

Director, OEI National Office

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Ana Maria Serrano

Ecuador

Head of Communications, UNASUR General Secretary's Office

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Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Spain

Director-General, UNESCO (1987-1999)

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Heads of State

Rodrigo Carazo Odio

Costa Rica

President, Costa Rica

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Leonel Fernández Reyna

Dominican Republic

President, Dominican Republic; President, Funglobe Foundation

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Alvaro Colom

Guatemala

President, Guatemala

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Alpha Oumar Konaré

Mali

Former President, Republic of Mali; Former Chairperson, African Commission

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Danielle Mitterrand

France

First lady of France (1981-2011); President, France-Libertés Foundation (1986-2011)

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Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva

Brazil

President, República Federativa de Brasil (2003-2010; from 2023)

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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Cuba

President, Republic of Cuba (since 2019)

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José “Pepe” Mujica Cordano

Uruguay

President, Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2010-2015)

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Fidel Castro Ruz

Cuba

President, Councils of State; President, Ministers of the Republic of Cuba (1976-2008)

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Pope Francis

Holy See

Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church (2013-2025)

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Government Representatives

Lester Joan Cenzi Vera

Venezuela

Director General (In Charge) of the Cultural Cabinet of the Capital District since 2023

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Mikhail Ostrovskiy

Russia

First Vice-President of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

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Peter Kajatvivi

Namibia

Speaker, Parliament of Namibia; Speaker, National Assembly of Namibia

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Alicia Kirchner

Argentina

National Senator, Santa Cruz Province

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Yeidckol Polenvski

Mexico

Senator, State of Mexico

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Lucia Topolansky

Uruguay

Former Vice President, Uruguay; Former First Lady of Uruguay

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José Antonio Barroso

Spain

Mayor, Puerto Real, Seville

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Hugo Moldiz

Bolivia

Minister of Government, Bolivia

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Roberto Sánchez

Spain

Councillor, United Left Party, Asturias

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Roberto Castellanos Vieyra

Mexico

Director, Library, Archive, and Editorial Office of the Congress of the State of Jalisco

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Peter Mertens

Belgium

General Secretary, Belgian Labour Party (PTB); Member, Federal House of Representatives of Belgium; City Councillor in Antwerp

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Ignacio Caraballo

Spain

President, Provincial Council of Huelva

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Eduardo Lorier

Uruguay

Senator, Oriental Republic of Uruguay; Secretary General, Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU)

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Rafael Albuquerque de Castro

Dominican Republic

Foreign Minister, Dominican Republic

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Miguel Mejía

Dominican Republic

Minister, Regional Integration Policies

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Elder Súchite Vargas

Guatemala

Minister, Culture and Sports of Guatemala

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Raúl Pérez Torres

Ecuador

Former Minister, Culture and Heritage of Ecuador

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Gisela Alonso Domínguez

Cuba

President, Environment Agency (AMA) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba (CITMA)

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Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari

Qatar

Minister , State in the Amiri Diwan

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Guillaume Long

Ecuador

Minister, Culture of Ecuador

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Ernesto Emilio Villegas Poljak

Venezuela

Minister, People's Power for Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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Daniel Johnson

Bahamas

Minister, Youth, Sports and Culture

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Arthur Foulkes

Bahamas

Governor-General, Commonwealth of the Bahamas

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Simon Dieuseul Desras

Haiti

President, Senate of the Republic of Haiti

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Pedro Calzadilla

Venezuela

Minister, Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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Georgy Lvovich Muradov

Russia

Deputy President, Federal Agency Rossatrudnishestva

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Maria Fernanda Espinosa

Ecuador

Minister, Defense

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María de los Ángeles Higonet

Argentina

National Senator, Argentina

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José Antonio Rodríguez

Dominican Republic

Minister, Culture of the Dominican Republic

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Jean-Pierre Bel

France

President, Senate of the French Republic

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Erika Sylva

Ecuador

Minister, Culture of the Republic of Ecuador

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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

Cuba

Foreign Minister, Republic of Cuba

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Jorge Taiana

Argentina

Minister, Defense; Minister, Foreign Affairs of Argentina

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John A. King

Barbados

Minister, Creative Economy, Culture and Sports, Barbados

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Political Leaders

Willy Meyer

Spain

Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Spain (2004-2014)

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Iacovos Tofari

Cyprus

President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (PFMJD) Cyprus

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Tang Haijun

People's Republic of China

Director-General, Research Office of the International Department, Communist Party of China Central Committee (ILD-CPC)

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Yuri Afonin

Russia

Deputy Chairman, Communist Party of the Russian Federation

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Lucia Hubinská

Slovakia

Vice-President, Socialist Party of Slovakia

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José Luis Centella Gómez

Spain

President, Communist Party of Spain

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Christopher Joseph Helali

United States

Statesman; Member, American Communist Party; Former International Secretary, Communist Party of the United States

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Cristina Simó Alcaraz

Spain

President, Democratic Women's Movement; Secretary, Feminist Area of the Communist Party of Spain.

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Amílcar Figueroa

Venezuela

Deputy President, PARLATINO

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Aleksandar Djenic

Serbia

Executive Secretary, New Communist Party of Yugoslavia (NKPJ); Member of the Municipal Assembly of Zemun

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Adan Chávez Frías

Venezuela

President, International Relations Commission of the National Constituent Assembly; Vice President, International Affairs of the Socialist Party

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Faith-based Organisations

Daisuke Inoue

Japan

Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Soka University

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Yoshiyuki Nagaoka

Japan

President, Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue; Executive Director, Soka Gakkai Office of International Affairs

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Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia

Holy See

President, Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican.

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Reverend Joan Brown Campbell

United States

Director, Department of Religion, Chautauqua Institution

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Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

Holy See

Bishop and Chancellor Emeritus, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences

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Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula

Holy See

President, Pontifical Academy for Life

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Mehdi Fouladvand

Iran

Professor and Member, Nasī e Rahmān Foundation

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Gail Walker

United States

Executive Director, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) / Pastors for Peace

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Hiromasa Ikeda

Japan

Vice-President, Soka Gakkai International

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Artists and Academicians

Héctor Díaz Polanco

Dominican Republic, Mexico

Anthropologist, writer, and founder of REDH

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William Serafino

Venezuela

REDH

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Dimitrios P. Petropoul

Greece

University of the Peloponnese

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Pauline Audrey McLean

Jamaica

Adjunct Professor of Research Methods

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Mario Armando Mena

Argentina

Rector of the University of Morón, Buenos Aires

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María Elena Zea

Argentina

Co-founder and Coordinator of the International Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Carlos Alberto de Almeida

Brazil

REDH

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Ángel Guerra

Mexico

REDH

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Rui Pereira

Portugal

Associate Professor and Director,1st Cycle in Communication Sciences at the Universidade Lusófona do Porto

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Rita Brañas

Argentina

Visual Artist; Painter

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Rabab Abdulhadi 

United States

Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicity and Diaspora Studies Program at San Francisco State University; Senior Research Fellow, Palestine Teaching

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Philip Brenner

United States

Professor, International Relations at the American University Washington

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Pablo Sepúlveda Allende

Venezuela

Coordinator, Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH) ; President, Dr. Salvador Allende Latin American Foundation

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Nayar López Castellanos

Mexico

Professor-Researcher, Center for Latin American Studies, UNAM

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Nguyen Dang Thanh

Vietnam

Vice Rector, Ho Chi Minh National Political-Administrative Academy

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Miodrag J. Mihaljević

Serbia

Deputy Director, SASA Mathematical Institute; Member, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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Luis Morales Alonso

Nicaragua

Co-Director, Nicaraguan Institute of Culture of the Republic of Nicaragua

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Lionel Muñoz 

Venezuela

Director, Institute of Hispanic American Studies at the Central University of Venezuela

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Li Houqiang

People's Republic of China

President, Sichuan Academy of Social Science

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Leonid Savin

Russia

Director, Fidel Castro Foundation for the Development of Russian-Cuban Relations

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Knightingale Lulu Mmakola

South Africa

Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Limpopo

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Karina Batthyany

Uruguay

Secretary General, Latin American Council of Social Sciences

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José Barreiro

Cuba

Assistant Director of Research, Smithsonian Institution.

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José Antonio Ruz Hernández

Mexico

Rector, Autonomous University of Carmen

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José Antonio Mayoral Murillo

Spain

Rector, University of Zaragoza; Member, Executive Committee of the Sustainable Chemistry Technology Platform

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Jorge Enrique Adoum

Ecuador

Poet; Novelist; Diplomat; Cultural Intellectual

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Jesús Gerardo Torres Salcido

Mexico

Director, Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean

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Jamuna Bini

India

Adjunct Professor, Department of Hindi, Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh Arunachal Pradesh

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Israel Jurado Zapata

Mexico

Ph.D. and Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico

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Ismael Clark Arxer

Cuba

President, Cuban Academy of Sciences

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Fernando Buen Abad

Mexico

Member, Secretariat of the Network in Defense of Humanity; Member, REDH

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Hildebrando Pérez

Peru

Member, REDH

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Ernesto Cardenal 

Nicaragua

Member, REDH

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Emiliano José da Silva Filho

Brazil

Writer, Professor, University of Bahia

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Djordje Baralic

Serbia

Deputy Director, National Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Serbia

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Debora Kayembe

United Kingdom

Rector, The University of Edinburgh.

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Carmen Bohórquez

Venezuela

President, Francisco de Miranda Institute of Studies

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Carmen Lira

Mexico

Director, Newspaper La Jornada; Member, REDH

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Carlos Alberto Cordovano Vieira

Brazil

Professor and researcher, Institute of Economics of UNICAMP

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Artur L. Demchuk

Russia

Head, Chair of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

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Alejandro Pedregal

Spain

Researcher, Spanish National Research Council

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Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations

Oscar López Rivera

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican independence fighter

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Zaida Castro Delgado

Venezuela

Executive Director, Casa de Nuestra América José Martí

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José Juan Nazario

Puerto Rico

Co-founder, Nazario & Santiago Lawyers Association

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Paul Bloomfield

United Kingdom

Global Director of Partnership Relations, Words of Global Peace

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Stanisław (Stan) Strasburger

Germany

Board/Council Member, Humanismo Solidario

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Rosa Collelldevall

Spain

Founder, President, Foundation for the Aid and Promotion of Indigenous Cultures

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Gianmarco Pisa

Italy

National Secretary, Italian Peace Research Institute - Civilian Peace Corps

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Mohamed Boutaleb

Algeria

President, Emir Abdelkader National Foundation

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Owei Lakemfa

Nigeria

President, Society for the Awareness of International Relations ; International Coordinator, Movement to End Colonialism

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Eberhard Schultz

Germany

Member, Board of Directors of the International League for Human Rights in Germany; Founder and President, Foundation for Social Human Rights

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Graciela Ramírez

Argentina

Coordinator, International Committee of Solidarity with Cuba

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