Human Rights Archive
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UN Experts Underline Negative Impacts of New Digital Tools The experts reiterated their calls for caution about the radical impact of digital technologies in the context of humanitarian
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Corporate
Volker Türk Asks Bangladesh to Suspend Digital Security Act UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called on Bangladesh to immediately suspend its application of the Digital Security Act.
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Feature
Access Now Report Records 187 Internet Shutdowns in 35 Countries In 2022, authorities shut down the internet across 35 countries — the highest number ever recorded in a
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Feature
UN Report Details Impact of Internet Shutdowns on Human Rights Shutdowns were also reported when governments carried out security operations, severely restricting human rights monitoring and reporting. The
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Enterprise Events
The additional protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), intended to enhance cooperation and disclosure of electronic evidence, will be opened for signature at an international conference
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Enterprise Events
The course is intended for anyone interested in following and understanding the basics of preventing corruption. The Council of Europe held an online event to launch the e-course
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E-Governance
Indian authorities are increasingly targeting journalists and online critics for their criticism of government policies and practices, including by prosecuting them under counterterrorism and sedition laws, ten human
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Enterprise Events
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to drive innovation and help people and societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times. Yet, as the military uses
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CIO Info
How to Check ‘Fake News’ on Digital and Social Media At the UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC) on Friday (April 1), Member States adopted a plan of
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Corporate
GoTech World: NATO Stresses the Importance of Cybersecurity Speaking at the 2021 GoTech World Conference, NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană stressed the importance of cybersecurity at a
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Feature
Emerging digital technologies driven by big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are entrenching racial inequality, discrimination, and intolerance, a UN human rights expert said Wednesday (July 15), calling
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Feature
“As more and more data is generated about us, as we go about our daily lives it is essential that data protection is seen as a human rights
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E-Governance
The Digital Security Act was on Monday signed into law in Bangladesh, despite wide-ranging concerns that its content and scope could seriously impede the exercise of the rights
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Consumer Events
Following the opening of physical exhibits at the ICC and Atrium in The Hague and the UNHQ in New York, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched the
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E-Governance
A new report by a UN human rights expert warns that governments and companies risk undermining free speech on the internet, and urges both public officials and private
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