Gendered disinformation has become an increasing form of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) affecting women ...

The value of the UPR for promoting digital rights comes from its ability to shape human rights norms (through the provision ...

A human rights watchdog in the Philippines on Monday declared its “full support” for the passage of a proposed internet safety education bill protecting children from online sexual abuse and ...

(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech, Human Rights Watch said today. Many are ...

In response to the ongoing partial internet shutdown by Tanzanian authorities following the October 29 general elections, Amnesty International’s Deputy ...

The NGO denounced the "violent and repressive" response to the protests. President Samia Suluhu Hassan blamed foreigners for ...

The United Nations counts internet access as a basic human right in a report that bears implications both to on-going events in the Arab Spring and to the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted today to establish a watchdog to monitor the state of privacy rights worldwide. That watchdog, called a special rapporteur, was created by a consensus vote of all ...

UN rights chief Volker Türk calls for a probe into mass killings and disappearances after disputed October 29 elections in Tanzania.

Part 1. Introduction / Theodore E. Downing and Gilbert Kushner. Human rights research, the challenge for anthropologists / Theodore E. Downing. Is there a scientific basis in anthropology for the ...

THE nationwide internet blackout and ongoing suspension of X (formerly Twitter) have cost the economy over $238m (560bn/-) in ...