Tag: United Nations
How is tech disrupting our human rights framework?
Help shape our message to the United Nations on the ways in which technology has disrupted our existing human rights framework.
Saving free expression in MENA: what happens after Khashoggi’s death?
The international community must act to investigate the evident murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and to amplify Arab voices.
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.
At the United Nations, UPR surfaces threats to our digital ecosystem
In the current review cycle, we provide evidence on the human rights situation in Chile, New Zealand, Uruguay, Vietnam, and Yemen.
Access Now condemns U.S. withdrawal from U.N. Human Rights Council
The United States is pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This abdicates responsibility and will hurt human rights.
Internet rights in focus: 38th session of the Human Rights Council
Our joint review with APC of the internet and human rights issues at stake in the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, June 18-July 6
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.
Defending the right to privacy globally: 8 key recommendations for the digital age
Our submission to the United Nations on “the right to privacy in the digital age” details ways that governments can protect this fundamental right.
Access Now, USC IHRC urge United Nations to take action on human rights in Cameroon
Our letter to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, urges the United Nations to address recent human rights violations committed by the Republic of Cameroon against the country’s Anglophone population.
Tunisia: for a free press, journalists must have privacy
The Minister of the Interior admits to spying on journalists’ phone calls with protesters.