Political Science PhD student at the University of Toronto and researcher at The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs. Focus on how information and communication technologies intersect with human rights and security.
The Constitution and Reform Education Consortium (CRECO) is a network of civil society organizations that belong to the broad human rights, governance and democracy category of NGOs. CRECO was founded in 1998, as a culmination of a networking history dating as far back as 1992 with the exponential increase in NGOs involved in governance. CRECO’s…
Maina Kiai is a co-director of InformAction, a non-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya. From 2011 to 2017, Kiai served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. As the inaugural UN Special Rapporteur for his issue, Kiai developed a strong mandate that brought the voices…
On May 9, 2017, Hassan Shire, the Executive Director of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (DefendDefenders), addressed the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and encouraged them to play a stronger role in protecting human rights on the continent. Shire drew attention to a number of recent human rights…