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The 26th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC26) will take place in Geneva from 10 to 27 June. This session will include debate on a new resolution on the protection and promotion of human rights online, as well as special panels on racism online and on the safety of journalists. New reports ...
All the questions you have about internet intermediaries and their legal responsibility for illegal or harmful activities performed by users through their services.
This briefing paper was produced for the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Seventeenth Session, which took place 12-16 May 2014 in Geneva.
Uganda has in the recent months passed a raft of legislation, which human rights defenders say detract from citizens’ freedoms. These laws and policies were passed in the context of shrinking space for the opposition, civil society and the media, and come two years to presidential elections in ...
Where do human rights and online rights meet? Is there a clash between online freedom and human rights? Is there room for self-regulation? These are some of the questions that a recently concluded online discussions report on Internet freedom in Africa explores.
Participants from various African ...
Concept note on online discussions on internet freedoms in Africa, co-hosted by The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), during November and December 2013.
South Africa largely respects online freedoms, and to this extent the country could be considered to have a free online media environment. Many of the instances of internet censorship apparent in more repressive countries, and outlined by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and...
