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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

For more resources, articles and interviews please visit:
  Take Back the Tech  GenderIT.org  FLOW

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  • 11 October 2012
    Attack on Pakistani youth activist will not shake women's rights activists

    An exceedingly sad, insensate and astounded feeling comes to mind while writing this piece about an innocent 14 year-old activist Malala Yousafzai shot in Swat, Pakistan earlier today. This young girl who exemplifies active participation in the Take Back the Tech! campaign in Pakistan.
  • 22 August 2012
    Brigid Inder appointed Special Gender Advisor to ICC

    Today International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the appointment of Brigid Inder as her Special Gender Advisor. With more than 25 years of experience working in the international justice, women’s human rights and health fields as a strategic leader, policy advisor and advocate for women’s human rights and gender equality, Ms. Inder will provide strategic advice to the Office of the Prosecutor on gender issues, including sexual and gender-...
  • 22 August 2012
    Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe LGBTI Violations Report 2011

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  • 10 May 2012
    Women's human rights online & the Universal Periodic Review

    In the edition, GenderIT ask three women human rights defendersi and co-authors of the country reports for Brazil, Ecuador, and the Philippines about the importance of the UPR for the rights and daily lives of women, the trends in exercising women’s and sexual rightsi online, and their tips on how women’s and sexual rights activists can support their advocacyi through the UPR process.

  • 11 April 2012
    Self-Care & Self-Defense Manual for Feminist Activists

    This self-help manual written by Marina Bernal and others with the collaboration of Artemisa, Elige and CREA, proposes to feminist activists to undertake a journey of self-exploration in order to learn to build their own self-defense strategies. Deepening our self-knowledge will help us understand our limitations and strengths, what makes us strong and what makes us vulnerable. It will also help women human rights defenders to understand why they are victims of...

  • 10 April 2012
    Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders

    This guidebook is designed to support the ongoing process of
    enhancing the understanding of, and sensitivity to, the specific issues
    and situations confronted by women human rights defenders.
    Women human rights defenders are women who defend human
    rights as well as those who defend sexuality-related rights. By
    naming the specific violations, risks and constraints that they face,
    this guidebook aims to continue advocacy, research, and documentation,
    ...