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Follow-up to Beijing: APC Women's Rights Programme at CSW58 Nueva York 26 February 2014 By Flavia Fascendini for APCNews

The APC Women’s Rights Programme will be present at the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will take place in New York on 10-21 March 2014. This year’s priority theme is “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for wom...

Porn and violence: Navigating grey areas 26 February 2014 By Richa Kaul Padte for EROTICS India

Padte’s is the first in a series of posts reporting on the day-long “Tangled, Like Wool” meeting held in New Delhi in January 2014 under APC’s EROTICS project. Through talks, presentations and discussions participants explored the links between pornography, gender, sexuality and freedom of s...

APC at the third meeting of the Working Group of Enhanced Cooperation
APC at the third meeting of the Working Group of Enhanced Cooperation 24 February 2014 By APCNews

On 24-28 February the APC community will be in Geneva discussing the future of internet governance in the context of the UN at the third meeting of a working group that addresses enhanced cooperation among multi-stakeholders.

Job opportunity: Internet rights outreach and capacity-building coordinator for the Maghreb-Machrek region
Job opportunity: Internet rights outreach and capacity-building coordinator for the Maghreb-Machrek region 19 February 2014 By SF for APCNews

APC is seeking an outreach and capacity building coordinator to join its policy to coordinate its internet rights networking and capacity-building work with women’s and human rights defenders in the Maghreb-Machrek region.

Reflections on the 2013 Internet Governance Forum, recommendations for 2014
Reflections on the 2013 Internet Governance Forum, recommendations for 2014 19 February 2014 By APCNews

APC and its community will remember the 2013 forum most for the impact of the Snowden revelations, ICANN and Brazil’s initative to convene an internet governance meeting in 2014, the hospitality of our Indonesian hosts, and for Miss Internet Bali. Read our full assessment.

Drafting an African internet bill of rights
Drafting an African internet bill of rights 14 February 2014 By AG for APCNews

Civil society activists from sixteen African countries met on 12-13 February 2014 in Johannesburg to begin a dialogue towards the development of an African declaration on internet rights and freedoms.

Allied Media Conference to feature digital, analog security solutions for activists
Allied Media Conference to feature digital, analog security solutions for activists 13 February 2014 By Mallory Knodel for APCNews

The 16th annual Allied Media Conference calls for session proposals until 1 March 2014. APC and partners are curating a programme track on digital security and surveillance for organisers and activists.

Global internet users demand an end to mass surveillance on “The day we fight back”
Global internet users demand an end to mass surveillance on “The day we fight back” 11 February 2014 By APC

Internet rights organisations, civil-society groups, authors, and internet users across six continents take to the digital streets to demand an end to mass surveillance on Tuesday, 11 February 2014.

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