Tag: United Nations Human Rights Council
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Access Now and global partners report to Human Rights Council on most pressing digital rights issues in Nicaragua, DRC, Qatar, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica
Our reports cover a country’s human rights obligations, developments since the last review, and pressing examples with evidence to show how rights are being violated or put at risk. …
10 October 2018
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Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
Access Now joins a coalition of rights organizations in calling on Russia to stop blocking the encrypted messaging application Telegram, and to cease its broader attack on free expression online and the free press. …
30 April 2018
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United Nations urged to intervene in Cameroon to stop the violence and internet shutdowns
The Cameroon government has again issued orders to block access to the entire internet in Anglophone regions of the country, this time in the lead up to Oct. 1, 2017, a day for planned demonstrations in those regions. On Oct.…
6 October 2017