Tag: Business & Human Rights

In response to mounting pressure from civil society, MTN has published an inaugural transparency report. Although this report is a welcome development, and Access Now encourages MTN to make this a yearly publication, the content leaves us with more questions than answers. 

The incoming Biden-Harris administration must ensure agency hires hail from diverse backgrounds and prioritize civil rights and technology equities.

After years of calls from civil society for transparency and accountability, MTN has taken an important first step.

Access Now is calling out the Council of the European Union for failing to reconsider and strengthen the EU dual-use recast compromise amendments. Council members must urgently reevaluate their positions to meet their human rights obligations. 

Here’s where you find Access Now staff at the Internet Governance Forum 2020, which focuses on strategies for using the internet to increase human resilience and solidarity.

Austrian-owned A1 Telekom Austria Group must acknowledge its role in election-related internet shutdowns in Belarus, maintain free and open internet, and resist and denounce any and all future orders by the Alyaksandr Lukashenka government to interfere with internet access.

Access Now applauds Yandex for being the first major tech company in Russia to release a transparency report.

The U.S. FCC will vote on an order upholding its rights-harming decision to repeal net neutrality protections.

For democracy to flourish, access to free and open internet is vital, especially throughout elections — and several are scheduled over the next few months.