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On September 3, 2017, Egyptian authorities arrested 24 Nubian activists, including human rights lawyers Maysara Abdoun and Mohamed Azmy, during a peaceful demonstration in Aswan, Egypt. The activists’ protests drew attention to the forced displacement of Nubians from their historic lands between 1912 and 1964 and demanded that the Egyptian government grant them “their right…
On October 23, 2017, 55 international civil society organizations (CSOs) issued an open letter about the government’s extreme crackdown on Cambodia’s independent media, political opposition, and members of civil society over the past year. In addition to the Cambodian National Assembly’s recent attempt to pass legislation that allows the government to dissolve political parties, the letter notes that independent…
On October 16, 2017, Public Knowledge, Article 19, and Access Now issued a joint statement of concern about the recent proposal to expand the mandate of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a United Nations communication agency – to include regulating international privacy policies. Under the proposal, the ITU would drive the regulation and establishment of an international framework for privacy-related issues. The…