Tag: Business & Human Rights
After the Paris attacks, France enacts sweeping legislation limiting fundamental freedoms
After the Paris attacks, France made changes to its laws. Here’s our detailed analysis of those changes and what they mean for human rights.
RightsCon 2016: Forging the right path for keeping the internet open and secure
Here are the issues we’re reflecting on as we look ahead to RightsCon, our signature conference that gathers digital rights activists, companies, government officials, technologists, and academics from all over the world.
Nigerian government levies $5.2 billion fine, threatens anonymity online
MTN Nigeria was fined a record $5.2 billion for providing services to users with unregistered SIM cards, protecting their anonymity. We stand with MTN in its efforts to meet its responsibility to respect human rights.
Bangladesh and the U.S.: Internet shutdowns are the wrong response to national security threats
Yesterday, authorities in Dhaka, Bangladesh shut down some internet services for several hours, including blocking access to Facebook, Whatsapp, and Viber. Service was later restored, but key services remain offline. The latest shutdown in Dhaka shows worrying backsliding to the use of internet shutdowns as a blunt instrument to deal with threats to national security. It also solidifies the South Asia region as a hub for these intentional disruptions, given that Pakistan and the Indian provinces of Gujarat and Kashmir have also chosen to disrupt networks in the past few months. Worse, it looks as though lawmakers around the world are seeing threats to national security as a justification for undermining the open internet.
Defending solidarity and human rights after the attacks in Paris and Beirut
Following the horrific attacks in Paris and Beirut, Access Now urges governments to respond by affirming and strengthening our very best values.
Access Now events at Internet Governance Forum 2015
Access Now at the Internet Governance Forum: A full agenda
E.U. Commissioners call for new Safe Harbor framework
Nauru in hot seat as U.N. decries internet blocking, clampdown on free expression
Today countries around the world urged the small island state of Nauru to restore access to social media and support free expression. Delivered in a session at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the recommendations — presented by official delegations from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Timor Leste, among others — represent a sharp rebuke after Nauru clamped down on free expression over the past year, including blocking Facebook. In a separate action, Access Now delivered a petition to the government of Nauru signed by more than 5,000 people calling on the government to restore full access to the internet.
