<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000066">The Freedom House Internet Freedom report will be released two weeks from now. Our very own Grace Githaiga will be Hanging Out with the launch team. You can stream it live using the link provided. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000066"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000066">Moses</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000066"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Freedom House</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fhevents@freedomhouse.org">fhevents@freedomhouse.org</a>></span><br>Date: 13 October 2015 at 20:48<br>Subject: Freedom on the Net 2015 Report Launch<br><br><br><br><u></u>
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Please join us for the launch of<i> Freedom on the Net 2015</i>, the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual assessment of internet access, censorship, and internet user rights in 65 countries around the world. This year’s event will highlight the advances and setbacks in internet freedom over the past year, emerging threats to digital media, and the challenges these trends pose to U.S. foreign policy.</p>
<p style="text-align:left"><b>Breakfast and registration will begin at 8:30 a.m.</b></p>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:medium"><u><b>Program</b></u></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b>Introductory Remarks<br>
</b>The Honorable Brian Schatz (D-HI)<br>
United States Senate</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Ross LaJeunesse<br>
Global Head of Free Expression & International Relations, Google</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Daniel Calingaert<br>
Executive Vice President, Freedom House</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Sanja Kelly<br>
<i>Freedom on the Net</i> Project Director, Freedom House</p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b>Panelists<br>
</b>Chinmayi Arun<br>
Research Director, Centre for Communication Governance<br>
National Law University, Dehli</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Eileen Donahoe<br>
Director of Global Affairs, Human Rights Watch<br>
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Gady Epstein<br>
Media Editor, <i>The Economist </i></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b>Google Hangout Participants</b><br>
Grace Githaiga<br>
Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network</p>
<p style="text-align:center">Tetyana Lokot<br>
Contributing Editor for <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CXWdbSomfR5upLasEcqFJI8qOD5HqIaT" target="_blank">RuNet Echo</a><br>
Ukraine</p>
<p style="text-align:left">Special thank you to Google for sponsoring the launch of <i>Freedom on the Net 2015.</i> </p>
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