Human rights and ICTs
Freedom of expression remains Southern Africa’s most violated online right. Advocacy for the respect, recognition and promotion of freedom of expression online has been marked as a priority for digital rights activists in the region. Southern African members of the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (AfDec) Coalition, drawn from Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, noted this during a strategy-networking meeting held in Windhoek, Namibia...
On 23 September, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) participated in the Christchurch Call Leaders’ Dialogue at the UN General Assembly in New York as a member of the Christchurch Call Advisory Network. The meeting featured announcements and updates on the Christchurch Call, which was launched in May 2019 in response to the 15 March terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. During the tragic attack, the killing of 51 people was broadcast live on the internet, and then ...
APC statement to the Christchurch Call Leaders’ Dialogue at the UN General Assembly in New York, 23 September 2019 Excellencies, colleagues, For too long, efforts to address violent extremist and terrorist content have focused almost exclusively on Islamic terrorism, overlooking violent misogyny, white supremacy, far-right and anti-LGBTIQ extremism. The Christchurch Call provides an ...
From 9 to 13 September 2019, the United Nations Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security held its first substantive session in New York. The OEWG has a broad mandate, covering existing and potential threats in cyberspace; the applicability of international law; rules, norms and principles for resp...
This article was originally published on the website of APC member organisation EngageMedia. As an organisation that stands for media freedom and digital rights, EngageMedia finds the recent threats against freedom of expression in West Papua concerning, including undue restriction and harassment, as well as internet blocking and throttling. UN Human Rights Council experts have urged the Indon...
Human rights norms and standards integrate gender and development, and are respected and promoted in internet and ICT policy, governance, development and practice. This is a compendium of the highlights from APC's Annual Report for 2018. Contributed to policy by addressing new threats to human rights online The 38th Human Rights Council session saw the updating of its landmark re...
The APC community of members, allies and partners are strengthened as a network and work collaboratively to use the internet and ICTs for social and environmental justice, gender equality and sustainable development. This is a compendium of the highlights from APC's Annual Report for 2018. Expanded outreach and influence Our main website, apc.org, had 658,252 unique visitors and 1,194,057 visit...
APC has joined the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and 130 organisations from around the world to set out the criteria that should be at the heart of the selection of the next UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders plays a key role in the recognition and protection of those ...
Statement by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) First Substantive Session of the Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security New York, 10 September 2019 Thank you Chair, colleagues, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) welcomes this opportunity to address the Open-end...
Papuan Voices is a video for change initiative enabling Papuan activists and citizen journalists to tell their stories to the world. Papua (West Papua and Papua provinces of Indonesia) is one of Indonesia's least developed and least known regions. Since its controversial integration into Indonesia in 1969, Papuans have suffered discrimination in favour of Indonesian migrants...
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