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Dr. Zhou Xinping, Director, Professor, Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Opening Address
   
Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Opening Address
     
Jorge Precht, Professor of Public Law, Catholic University of Chile
"Evolving International Approaches"
     
Setsu Kobayashi, Director, Keio University Legal Research and Training Center
"Evolving International Approaches"
     
Hüseyin Levent Köker, Professor, Doctor, Gazi University
"Evolving International Approaches"
     
Abdul Fatah Salah, Minister, Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs
"Emerging Challenges: Regional Perspectives"
     
J. Clifford Wallace, Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
"Emerging Challenges: Regional Perspectives"
     
Monica Herman Salem Caggiano, Professor of Law, Department of Public Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
"Emerging Challenges: Regional Perspectives"
     
Syed Saif Mahmood, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Senior Partner, Amicus Juris Law Firm
"Emerging Challenges: Regional Perspectives"
     
Vladimir Filipovich Fedorov, Rev. Dr., Russian Christian Academy for Humanity
"Religious Perspectives: Views from the Catholic and Orthodox Tradition"
     
Nikos Mahgioros, Assistant Professor of Canon and Ecclesiastical Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
"Religious Perspectives: Views from the Catholic and Orthodox Tradition"
     
P. Evaldo Xavier Gomes, PhD Fr, Carmelite Order
"Religious Perspectives: Views from the Catholic and Orthodox Tradition"
     
Michael K. Young, President, University of Utah
"Implementing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: U.S. Foreign Policy Perspectives"
     
David Rodarmel, Foreign Service Officer/Europe Team Leader, Office of International Religious Freedom
"U.S. International Religious Freedom Act After Ten Years"
     
W. Cole Durham, Jr., Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University
Final Remarks
     
P. Evaldo Xavier Gomes, PhD Fr, Carmelite Order
"The Implementation of Inter-American Norms on Freedom of Religion in the National Legislation of OAS Member States"
     
Octavio Lo Prete, Professor/Secretary, University of Buenos Aires and Catholic University of Argentina; Argentine Council for Religious Liberty (CALIR), Argentina
Session I: "The Protection of Religious Freedom by the National Constitution and by Human Rights Treaties in the Republic of Argentina"
     
Sergio González Sandoval, Professor/Secretary, University of Buenos Aires and Catholic University of Argentina; Argentine Council for Religious Liberty (CALIR), Argentina
Session I: "The Colombian Experience in the Area of Protection of the Freedom of Religion"
     
José Maria Gómez Villaseñor, National Department of Properties Used by Religious Associations, Mexico
Session IV: "Recognition and Freedom of Religious Associastions in Mexico"
     
Oroslinda Taranto Goulart, Special Advisor to the Minister of Education, Ministry of Education, Brazil
Session V: "Inter-Religious Dialogue to Improve Brazilian Education"
     
Marcelo Antonio Moscogliato, Federal Prosecutor, Regional Procurator, National Public Ministry, Brazil
Session V: "Religious Freedom in Brazil – Some Precedents"
     
Hans Gerald Hödl, Privatdozent Dr. Mag., Vice-Director of Study-Programme, University of Vienna, Institute for the Study of Religions, Austria
Session VII: "Beyond the Sect-Paradigm? Did attitudes in monitoring religious groups change in Austria during the last decades?"
     
Steffen Rink, Dipl.-Pol., Religious Studies Media and Information Service, Germany
Session VII: "Increasing plurality, religious freedom, and the importance of law - Some Remarks on developments in Germany as an example for new challenges"
     
Ameer Ali, Professor, Murdoch University Centre for Muslim Studies, Australia
Session VIII: "Religious Freedom in ‘Islamic’ Australia"
     
Oluremi Olabimpe Akinsoji, Assistant Director, Federal Ministry of Interior, Nigeria
Session X: "The Nigerian Perspective"
     
Helena Van Coller, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University, South Africa
Session X: "The Need and Progress of a Bill / Charter of Religious Rights for South Africa"
     
Sujata Koirala, Cabinet Minister, Nepali Congress, Nepal
Session XV: "Religion is Unity in Diversity - Let Us All Maintain Each Other’s National Integrity"
     
Denise Meyerson, Professor of Law, Macquarie University, Australia
Session XVII: "Australia’s Implementation of Its International Religious Freedom Obligations"