The Karisma Foundation is a digital rights advocacy organisation that works to reduce gender inequalities. This year, the organisation applied to the Innovation Challenge 2018 and is one of four winne...
Laws, technology and oppressive methods used by governments can change quickly. In order to stay on top of things and avoid unnecessary risks, human rights defenders need access to the latest security...
“I spent 6 months in prison and after that my studies to become an accountant was over”. She is 29 years old and lives in Cuba where arbitrary detentions are occurring daily. Every month people are be...
Dear reader, happy summer wishes from Sweden! Here in Stockholm, June has been a bit moody. One day with heat and glistening sunshine, another with hefty winds and stormy clouds. In the midst of all t...
More than one hundred creative human rights defenders entered this year’s Innovation Challenge. In an innovative and creative manner, they have all brought forward ideas on how to increase the protect...
Last week we introduced three of the competitors of Innovation Challenge (IC) 2018, and promised to present two more this week. So without further ado, here are Sawsan Nashashibi with Isha L’lsha (Hai...
On Monday the 18th of June we closed the second round of Innovation Challenge 2018. The second round tested 16 of our applicants further, asking them to elaborate on their plans. The results are now b...
At Civil Rights Defenders we have a defender-centric approach. This essentially means that we put our human rights defenders at the centre of attention for our work. We try our very best to enable the...
What some ten years ago was separated out as ‘digital rights’, has now been so intensively intertwined with our everyday life that it currently affects us all, all of the time. And as digital rights a...
May 22 we closed the first round of Innovation Challenge 2018. We were amazed at the great turnout, 101 applications in total! Civil Rights Defenders would like to thank all of the participants for ma...
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