This is the second of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s special series on digital rights entitled “The State of Digital Rights”. It is difficult to identify what objectively constitutes suppo...
Early this morning, Kenyan human rights defender Joel Ogada used his Natalia Project alarm device to let Civil Rights Defenders know that a security incident had occurred close to his home. The situat...
This is the first of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s special series on digital rights entitled “The State of Digital Rights”. To illustrate the complexity of digital rights we will attack i...
In 2015, Shabnam Khudoydodova, a human rights defender from Tajikistan, was targeted by Tajik authorities in retaliation for her political activism online. With the support of Civil Rights Defenders E...
It took the deaths of over 50 million people to impress upon the world the necessity for an organisation as the United Nations (UN). 31 years after its founding, the UN General Assembly finished ...
We have seen an explosion of new technology over the past decades. This unprecedented advancement is impacting our everyday lives and will continue to do so in ways we can’t imagine in the years to co...
This year Civil Rights Defenders awarded four projects at our annual Innovation Challenge (IC). The remarkable contributions of these projects strengthen the security and impact of human rights defend...
A total of 101 creative applicants entered the Innovation Challenge 2018. They all brought forward ideas on how to increase the protection and efficiency of human rights defenders at risk. Today, Civi...
One of the greatest challenges for many human rights defenders is to inform the public about the continuous human rights abuses in their environments. SugarCube – one of the winning applications in th...
Latin American journalists often become targets of violence and threats, online and offline. In order to meet this worrying trend, the organisation Derechos Digitales – winner of the Innovation Challe...
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