Tag: #KeepItOn

We’re urging authorities to resist using new “jamming” technology to shut down communications networks, and to keep the internet on during the Olympic games.

The latest issue of Digital Citizen focuses on internet shutdowns in the Arab world.

People in Turkey need access to information, and if there is violence, access to emergency services. These depend on stable communications channels.

Only five days after the U.N. passed an historic resolution specifically condemning internet shutdowns, reports from Zimbabwe suggest that the government may have ordered WhatsApp blocked.

The document condemns internet shutdowns and renews earlier resolutions that declared, unequivocally, that human rights apply online just as they do offline.

Rights groups in Bahrain reported widespread disruptions in mobile internet service following a series of street protests.

The U.S. military gave a resounding rebuke to U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to shut down the internet in the fight against ISIL.

Here’s what we’re prioritizing this week at the 32nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

As Ghana threatens to cut off social media during elections, nearly 70 human rights organizations rally to #KeepItOn globally.

Internet shutdowns violate human rights. Here’s why they keep happening anyway.