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Published before the UN’s Open Ended Working Group on ICTs, the joint input makes recommendations regarding responsible state behaviour in cyberspace from a rights-centric perspective.

Two new reports zone in on how West Africa governments are weaponising cybersecurity and anti-disinformation laws and using them against journalists and critical voices.

Apple is the Online Safety Bill as it could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal and other to scan;

As Internet access continues to grow in Africa, with over 450 million people now connected to the Internet, more than 60 percent of

Latest news on protests in Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, a country in western South America and the third largest in that continent.

Feminist activists are working to make the internet a safer place. Apps like Herd and Block Party provide harassment-free spaces for women online.

October 2017The Russian Federation presents a letter to the UN General Assembly containing a draft of the United Nations Convention on Cooperation in Combating Cybercrime, intended for circulation to Member States. November 2019A resolution, sponsored by Russia—along with Belarus, Cambodia, China,...

UNFPA and partners (The Governments of Chile, Denmark and the United States, and the member States of the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse, together with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), UNICEF and UN Women) are pleased to invite you to the High-Level Thematic Session entitled Catalysing Collective Action to End Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence that will be held on the margins of the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Commission...

The digital gender gap is multifactorial in Latin America and as long as countries fail to address discrimination against women, inequality will be reflected in the digital space, excluding them from

February 2023 in Africa: A special feature looks at a new African soft policy framework that considers the root causes of digital violence, plus the latest free expression news from the region, produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Reyhana Masters.