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Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah is in jail and in failing health. Why is he still in there and does he have a case to be released?

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Ninety-five groups call on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently denounce and mandate independent investigations into the situation of human rights violations facilitated by the sale, export, transfer, and use of surveillance technology.

Civil society and experts call on Member States of the U.N. HRC to take urgent action regarding abuses facilitated by spyware technologies.

civil society space resolution, we deplore the removal of general debates in June and call for their reinstatement including with NGO video statements. COVID-19 has exacerbated existential threats to civil society and demonstrated the importance of bridging digital divides. We welcome the focus of the resolution on the Internet, and that the resolution on digital technologies places a stronger focus on human rights impacts and approach to new technologies. We also welcome the resolution on ...

An open letter, signed by 14 not-for-profits, called upon the government to suspend the implementation of Indias new IT rules, which came into effect last month.

Read more about Digital rights outfits call upon Indian govt to roll back IT Rules on Business Standard. Coalition of 14 such outfits is also asking corporations to step up against intrusion by Indian authorities into the rights of millions of people who use their services everyday

APC On 4 June 2021, the government of Nigeria “suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter” in the country. The decision was announced days after a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari was deleted by the platform. Since then, access to Twitter through Nigerias main phone service providers has been blocked, according to news reports. So far the government has not detailed how the ban will be operationalised in practice. Also, no further ...

Right groups, digital privacy rights organizations and researchers call on Google to halt its plans to establish a "Cloud region" in Saudi Arabia, pointing to the country's track record of violating privacy rights to spy on citizens.

Why are peoples relationships important in online work? A network is only as strong as the people that are part of it. Working for social change requires passion and commitment to a cause. This becomes even more crucial if the work we do is mostly online, because the support of our co-workers is distant and it is easy to lose motivation or the sense of urgency when we interact through a phone, pad, tablet or computer screen instead of face to face. In this sense, it is important for your organi...