JUST ANNOUNCED! Amal and George Clooney to headline Rappler’s Social Good Summit 2025

The power couple, co-founders of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, will speak at the November 16 summit in Metro Manila

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Amal and George Clooney to headline Rappler’s Social Good Summit 2025   International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and award-winning actor and director George Clooney will headline Rappler’s Social Good Summit that is set to take place on November 16 in Metro Manila.   Amal Clooney co-leads the international legal team of Rappler CEO and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, along with barrister Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC.    George and Amal Clooney are co-founders of the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), an organization that provides free legal aid to defend freedom of speech and women’s rights in over 40 countries. CFJ’s TrialWatch program is the first initiative that monitors criminal trials of journalists globally, exposing unfair trials and challenging laws that are weaponized against free speech.   CFJ has partnered with 35 law firms and 19 law schools (including in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) globally and its Board includes the president of Microsoft, the editor of The Economist, the former president of the Ford Foundation and Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege. In the last five years, its work has helped free over a hundred journalists and advocates and helped thousands of women defend their legal rights in court.      The Clooneys at Social Good Summit   Mr. and Mrs. Clooney will lead opening sessions at the Social Good Summit, Rappler’s annual gathering of community members, partners, supporters, and readers. This year’s summit, entitled “Make Your Move,” will take place on November 16, from 12 pm to 8 pm, at Lanson Place MOA in Pasay City.   The Clooneys will speak about the global challenges to free speech and civil liberties, drawing on their work at CFJ, and join a Q&A with Rappler CEO Maria Ressa.   The summit will feature other thought leaders and experts.   Taiwan’s first digital minister and current cyber ambassador Audrey Tang will headline a panel on artificial intelligence and trust, “AI Safety, Ethics, and the Future of Civic Resilience.” Joining her are British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, famous for uncovering the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal, and Microsoft Philippines CEO Peter Maquera.   Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist Oleksandra Matviichuk, whose organization, Center for Civil Liberties, was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, will also deliver a keynote address. Senator Risa Hontiveros will close the summit with a call to action speech on fighting corruption and pushing for accountability.   A panel on how journalism helps communities and catalyzes change even amid oppression will be headlined by Ukrainian war reporter Nataliya Gumenyuk and Filipino trauma journalist and book author Patricia Evangelista. Joining the panel are James B. McClatchy Foundation president and CEO Priscilla Enriquez, who has been working to keep local newsrooms alive in Trump-era America, and veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona.   Other speakers at the summit are film directors Antoinette Jadaone and Rodina Singh, Film Academy of the Philippines director general Paolo Villaluna, and more.   The summit’s breakout sessions again put AI and communities at the forefront. One breakout session will give participants a hands-on workshop on “Creating a People-first AI Policy.” Another breakout session will equip participants with knowledge and insights about how to keep movements alive.

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About the Clooneys   Amal Clooney is one of the leading human rights lawyers in the world. She is a barrister specializing in international law and human rights, described in legal directories as “a brilliant legal mind” who is “in a league of her own” with a “commanding presence before courts.” She has helped to secure milestone judgments on behalf of ISIS victims, civilians subject to crimes against humanity in Darfur, countless victims of sexual violence, and journalists imprisoned around the globe for their work.    She is also a Professor of Practice in International Law at Oxford University and author of seminal textbooks The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (with P. Webb) and Freedom of Speech in International Law (with D. Neuberger). She is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, a global initiative dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to increase access to justice. And she is the co-founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, a charity that has helped free over a hundred journalists and advocates and helped thousands of women defend their legal rights in court. Her work has led to numerous awards including from the American Society of International Law, the Legal 500, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the King’s Trust, and Time Magazine.    George Clooney is an actor, filmmaker, and activist recognized as much for his global humanitarian efforts as he is for his accomplishments in the entertainment industry. Clooney’s achievements as a performer and filmmaker have earned him two Academy Awards, five Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, four SAG Awards, one BAFTA award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, an Emmy, and four National Board of Review Awards.   This year, Clooney wrote and starred in the play Good Night, and Good Luck, based on the movie that he also wrote and starred in about the importance of a free press — and where Clooney plays Edward R. Murrow, the iconic CBS journalist. The play was the first Broadway production to be aired live on television, on CNN and CNN International, and its revenues broke Broadway records. It was nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Actor for Clooney.   When Clooney received his eighth Academy Award nomination, he earned a special spot in the Oscar record books. He has now been nominated in more categories than anyone else in Oscar history.

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