Global Partners Digital is launching a cyber capacity-building program, “How to Engage in Cyber Policy: Tools for Human Rights Defenders,” in an effort to increase civil society organizations’ interest and involvement in cyber policy. The video series introduces different aspects of “human rights, cybersecurity, regulatory frameworks, and cyber capacity-building issues.” The second part of the…
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), recently launched Profiles in Media Development Funding, a new online resource for media development funding. With support from the Open Society Foundations, CIMA has begun surveying organizations and producing brief profiles on them in order to better understand the donors facilitating media development work around the world. …
On March 9, 2016 at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, and Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, presented their joint report on the proper management of assemblies. The report summarizes applicable…