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Published in: HomeFear of surveillance is forcing activists to hide from public life in BelarusA visitor to Minsk might conclude from its calm appearance that the human rights situation had changed. But beneath...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy – a call to armsDavid Bernet’s profoundly European film, Democracy, is that rare thing, a documentary about the complex system that...
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Published in: HomeThe right to online anonymity
Human rights should be considered proportionally in any governmental policy related to the Internet, in a way which...
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Published in: HomeMobilisation for digital rights
Post-ACTA, decision-making has been adapted to avoid decision-moments. Of course, individual grassroots campaigns...
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Published in: HomeInternet governance as seen from the Right to DevelopmentParticipatory democracy has been hijacked by business-led multistakeholderism, and 'presence and power' are replaced...
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Published in: HomeWe must understand threats in the technology we use every day
Like everyone else, human rights activists use mobile phones, email and social networks to connect. Unlike most...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesAfter Snowden, can technology save our digital liberties?In this wide-ranging interview with human rights lawyer and former Privacy International head of advocacy Carly...
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Published in: HomeWhose data is it anyway?Collection, categorisation, and experimentation on people’s data are presented as legitimate because online...
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Published in: HomeWith one bound he was free!
The Internet organisation ICANN’s charismatic CEO, Fadi Chehade has moved on. Did he achieve what he set out to do?...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesBrazil's Internet Bill of Rights not to blame for takedown of WhatsAppIt was a tough job to get the Marco Civil da Internet approved. But it seems the work is far from done. Português
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Published in: HomeAs Poles shift right, democracy runs scarce
While the Law and Justice party insists that local disputes are best settled at home, Polish opposition and fearful...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and the internet from a curatorial perspective
How can we build a visual literacy that strengthens the movement for human rights on the internet? First, understand...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHuman rights in Europe should not buckle under mass surveillancePrivacy is a fundamental human right essential for living in dignity and security. This is why it is necessary that...
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Published in: HomeChampioning human rights on the internet — Part Six: Summing up, too much or not enough?
The hard work is only just beginning, that is the drip, drip, drip of legal, political and intellectual labour to...
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Published in: HomeChampioning human rights on the internet – Part five: Why bother then?
What have yet to get going are more informed discussions in local (schools, universities, hospitals, town halls) and...
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Published in: HomeChampioning human rights for the internet - why bother? Part four: Stepping up the tempo
Staying visible, not being drowned out by hostile agendas, or captured and then defused by lobbies of every ilk, is...
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Published in: HomeChampioning human rights for the internet - why bother? Part two: "Ground control to Major Tom"Corporate actors play no small part in setting this agenda as well, in kind rather than by international treaty,...
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Published in: HomeChampioning human rights for the internet – why bother? Part one: coming in from the coldArguments about why indeed human rights matter for our online lives, and who is responsible for taking action - the...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesDefending human rights in a digital age (II)Are our rights online under threat by our own governments? What real and imagined dangers face citizens at the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Defending human rights in a digital age
Public Debate: Defending human rights in a digital age is being livestreamed from Goldsmiths media and...
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