This years Civil Rights Defenders Innovation Challenge, an annual human rights focused technology award, rewards a team of lawyers and journalists. The winning proposal aims to create a game intended ...
Defending human rights has never been a safe activity, but it’s gotten even more dangerous in the past few years. Whether it is hackers in their email accounts, or threats, harassment and persecution,...
Authoritarian regimes and those who support their practices or ideology are putting a lot of resources and effort into utilising new digital tools. Sometimes they develop new ones, such as different s...
Recently the Innovation Initiative at Civil Rights Defenders conducted an Innovation Studio. The Innovation Initiative develops solutions to protect civil and political rights, with a particular focus...
After five months working as an intern with the Innovation Initiative at Civil Rights Defenders, it is sadly time for me to sign off. I grew up in the southern United States with American and Swedish ...
We closed the first round of Innovation Challenge 2019 on 9 January. Once again this year, we are amazed of the ingenuity of our applicants and are happy to be able to contribute to the sustainable de...
Facing harassments, threats, smear campaigns, defamation, legal prosecution, and even death threats can be a part of many human rights defenders everyday life. Human rights defenders are willing to ta...
In a world where repressive regimes constantly step up their coercive game and target human rights defenders, we need to find smart solutions that enable continued human rights work globally. When you...
Technology is improving at an exponential rate. Today, it is being used to empower everyone, including authoritarian state actors. This is the last of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s Specia...
This is the second of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s Special Series on Digital Rights entitled “Digital Rights and Civil Rights Defenders”. This series will present how Civil Rights Defend...
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