From November 16-18, 2018, join CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation in three days of global action by organizing a SPEAK! event to bring people together across lines of division and help to build connections. Not sure what your event could be? CIVICUS encourages any activity that inspires dialogue and understanding: “a public forum featuring individuals who…
On September 19, 2018, a court in Belgrade established that the editor of a daily newspaper called The Informer broke a law against hate speech by publishing an article attacking an activist and former Hurford Youth Fellow Anita Mitic and her former organization the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR). The editor was ordered to pay…
On January 8, 2018, the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issued a statement of concern regarding the recent invasive security measures and harassment undertaken by the Chinese government against the Uyghur ethnic minority living in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The CECC noted the exponential increase in security forces, arbitrary arrests, and the systemic, “involuntary collection…
On December 6, 2017, Citizen Lab released their new report entitled “Champing at the Cyberbait,” which exposed a new commercial spyware being used to target Oromo dissidents living abroad. Citizen Lab reported that the targeted activists had received emails with a URL imitating a video portal; when clicked, the user was asked to install an…