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How is the internet being used to improve people's lives? APC sends you news stories, resources and info about what we are doing twice a month.

Everyone has rights, including online. APC documents trends, advocates for freedom of expression/information & trains human rights defenders to use the internet securely.

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APC is working with partners to contribute to the effective, secure and safe use of the internet by women’s human rights defenders in their work.

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Violence is not our Culture Campaign  Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition

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  • 30 January 2013
    Testimony from a Survival of Gang Rape on Tahrir Square Vicinity

    We Will Take Her and Then One by One, Guys’

    I will tell my story that bears a lot of resemblance to other stories, your story and mine. We both know how this happened; death was so close but never came. You and I now that we have been violated, we were raped in the middle of Tahrir Square among throngs of Godless people, human wolves that are ravaging us violate all that is private stripping us from our bodies. Violence, lust, and instincts and no one can save us; to face death and...
  • 26 November 2012
    Women human rights defenders: activism's front-line
  • 14 November 2012
    Q&A: “They Demanded I Behave. I Decided Not To”

    Khadija Ismayilova has been threatened with blackmail by her own government. She has been branded an “enemy of the state”, mainly for her exposés of official corruption.

    Not only did these persecution campaigns fail to silence her, but Ismayilova recently received international recognition with the 2012 Courage in Journalism Award given by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF).

    ‘‘I didn’t want to step back and I didn’t want to give...

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  • 26 November 2012
    Landmark report on women’s rights on the internet

    Women may not have been an active part of policy-­making conversations when internet governance started, but the rapid pace of change online means they need to participate now to ensure that the future of the internet is shaped taking into account women’s rights. Read a report about “Women’s Rights on the Internet” on UNICEF’s The World We Want 2015 platform.

  • 29 October 2012
    Crossing Borders : Cyberspace and National Security

    This edition of GenderIT.org explores the online safety of women human rights defenders from the perspective of national security and counter-terrorism. National security often encompasses a variety of security threats, including those in cyberspace. While national security measures are meant to protect the security of a nation and its citizen, in many contexts they serve as a pretext for suppressing unfavourable political and social views. Despite the fact that online & offline security...

  • 26 October 2012
    What are the digital security concerns and threats facing Women Human Rights Defenders?

    One of the first steps to addressing violence against women is documenting that there is a problem. This is as true online as it is offline. APC’s Connect Your Rights! Campaign has conducted a survey of 40 women human rights defenders (WHRDs) from across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, on their online experiences, their security concerns and their training needs. This is an important step towards developing long-term strategies, responses and policy...

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  • 31 October 2012
    Attack on Malala Yousufzai

    AWID strongly condemns the attempted assassination of 14-year-old Pakistani school girl and activist, Malala Yousufzai by Taliban militants. We urge the authorities to bring to account those responsible for this attack and bring an end to the violence against women human rights defenders in Pakistan. We stand in solidarity with Malala Yousufzai and wish her a full and quick recovery.

  • 30 October 2012
    Stop Targetting Sri Lankan Human Rights Activists

    Target: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sponsored by: Kiri Westby, Urgent Action Fund For Women’s Human Rights

    On 17 March 2012, Sunila Abeysekera, a prominent Sri Lankan Human Rights Defender, was branded as working for the LTTE in an article published on the State-sponsored Lanka C News website. There were disturbing comments made by the readers, including calls for her to be killed and her house burnt to the ground.

    Sunila is...

  • 20 August 2012
    Sudanese Women Human rights defenders Project

    Sudanese Women Human rights defenders Project, is an initiative aimed at advocating Sudanese WHRD’S , and highlight their brave struggle to promote and empower human rights in one of the world most hostile environment against human rights advocates . the Sudanese government is long term leader of brutal war against its own peoples on racial and ethnic basics , which led to secession of the country on July 2011 , when South Sudanese declared their ” independence ” from Sudan , after 5 years...