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 Association for Women in International Development’s (AWID) 13th International Forum, “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” will be held on September 8-11, 2016 in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia, Brazil. More than 2,000 participants from a broad diversity of movements and sectors are slated to come together to strategize on issues pertaining…
On July 21, 2016, Hong Kong’s judicial system ruled that Nathan Law, a 23-year-old Umbrella Movement leader, was found guilty of inciting people to partake in unlawful assembly charges. The charges stem from 2014 protests where tens of thousands demonstrators occupied a public business square and several key intersections in opposition of proposed restrictive electoral…
VICELAND’s latest episode of CYBERWAR interviewed Ron Deibert about Citizen Lab‘s groundbreaking research on repressive regimes’ use of malicious spyware to “spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists.” Commercial surveillance tools are loosely regulated and Citizen Lab has publicized invaluable information documenting the growing market between technology firms in the West, and authoritarian governments…