Tag: Business & Human Rights
It wasn’t all bad: 2020 digital rights wins
Open Letter to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube: Stop silencing critical voices from the Middle East and North Africa
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and Access Now, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations, are voicing our frustration at how platform policies and content moderation procedures all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices across the Middle East and North Africa.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube must end the attack on critical voices in MENA
Access Now and 42 human rights organizations, journalists, and activists from across the globe call on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to not be complicit in censorship of human rights defenders across the Middle East and North Africa.
India pushes for National Health ID; what about privacy
DSA: European Commission delivers on the first step toward systemic rules for online platforms
Today, the European Commission launched a legislative reform that holds the promise of systemic regulation of large online platforms, consisting of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act. Access Now’s initial assessment focuses on the DSA, and highlights key issues that will affect human rights in the EU and beyond.
Can human rights survive the digital age? Only if we do these things
“We’re at a human rights tipping point.” On Human Rights Day of 2020, Access Now’s Brett Solomon maps out a pathway to take us to a full implementation and vindication of these rights, not just in principle, but in policy and practice.
Fighting systemic racism in the digital age: a global challenge
On Human Rights Day of 2020, we highlight the mandate of E. Tendayi Achiume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance to fight systematic racism.
COVID’s viral tech tools: All Hail The Lockdown
The fight continues this Human Rights Day: Access Now event highlights
December 10 is World Human Rights Day 2020. Under the theme “Recover Better — Stand Up for Human Rights”, organizations and individuals across the globe are coming together to advance — and innovate — the fight for human rights in the digital era. See Access Now’s recommended events:
