Welcome to the RightsCon 2026 (Lusaka, Zambia and online, May 5-8) proposal portal!

The portal allows you to manage your RightsCon submissions. Once you create an account, you can submit a session proposal, apply for the Community Support Fund, and more – all in one centralized location.

Travel support applications are now open! Applications for travel support will close in early January 2026. Decisions will be communicated to applicants by the end of January 2026.

Nominations for the RightsCon Speaker & Facilitator List are now open! If you have a thematic or regional perspective to contribute to our RightsCon 2026 program, nominate yourself as a speaker or facilitator before November 27, 2025 at 23:59 Pacific Standard Time. To learn more about our approach and who chooses speakers or facilitators, please read our blog post.

The Call for Proposals for RightsCon 2026 is now closed. During the upcoming months, the RightsCon team and the Program Comittee will be reviewing the proposals. Final notifications will be sent by late-December.

For more information on our community program, please visit our program page. 

The RightsCon proposal portal is hosted on OpenWater. We recommend that you read OpenWater’s privacy policy, and review RightsCon’s data usage policy, Code of Conduct, and participation and privacy policy.
We use the information provided through the portal to review session proposals, build the RightsCon program, send you updates about the summit, allocate connectivity support, and coordinate your involvement with RightsCon. We will not sell your data to anyone or share your data with an unauthorized third party.
If you have questions about our data usage policy, or if you wish to exercise your rights to information, access, erasure, rectification, or more, contact us at legal@accessnow.org. All other queries can be directed to legal@accessnow.org.