CALGARY (LC for APCNews) - While
hidden cameras can document and flag human rights abuses by
authoritarian governments, these same videos can then be used to
identify dissidents who are later detained and tortured, explains David
Sasaki in his introduction to this year's Global Information Society
Watch, which focuses on transparency and accountability online. More
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BERLIN (FD for GISWatch) - The
2012 update on action steps for selected countries of GISWatch 2011
looks back at progress in freedom of expression and association for 10
countries: Jamaica, Rwanda, Lebanon, Romania, Indonesia, Cameroon,
Argentina, Brazil, India and Nigeria. More
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MONTREAL (APC) - The Association
for Progressive Communications today released a new resource “Digital
security first-aid kit for human rights defenders.” It is an
interactive website publication available online at http://rights.apc.org/infosec.
BERLIN (Joy Liddicoat and Avri
Doria for APC) - “Like Internet protocols, human rights
standards attempt to articulate principles that will apply universally
over time, as ideas and conditions evolve,” a new paper argues.
Commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications and the
Internet Society, the issue paper released today compares the
standards-making processes as well as the principles underlying human
rights on the one hand and Internet protocols on the other. More
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