Tag: Business & Human Rights

This week six global tech companies — including Vodafone and Kakao — responded to letters from Access Now demanding that they increase transparency around digital rights such as privacy and free expression.

Our submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Council in the Universal Periodic Review for Uganda and South Sudan highlight ways that they can improve their human rights records.

The Global Connect Initiative to connect 1.5 billion to the internet by 2020 must bake in human rights by design, says Access Now’s Brett Solomon.

We asked attendees at RightsCon to share their thoughts on the experience, and to articulate what they see as the next steps in the fight for human rights worldwide. Here’s what they had to say.

We’ve recorded shutdowns in Chad, Ethiopia, India, and Pakistan. Each shutdown is unique, but they all harm people, violating human rights and often damaging the local economy.

Today we sent letters to 10 companies evaluated by Ranking Digital Rights, offering guidance for improving their practices to better respect human rights.

Today we kick off RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016, the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. Here’s what you need to know.