by Saskia Rowley | Feb 3, 2020 | Communication Rights
Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, has published its Front Line Defenders Global Analysis 2019. It details the physical assaults, defamation campaigns, digital security threats, judicial harassment, and gender-based...
by Saskia Rowley | Dec 9, 2019 | Communication Rights
In a digital era, Internet freedom is essential. Internet freedom includes digital rights, freedom of information, the right to Internet access, freedom from censorship, and net neutrality. In Russia, a new law enabling the government to disconnect users from the...
by Saskia Rowley | Dec 2, 2019 | Communication Rights
How is “digital” transforming the way we live? Imagine the abode of the future – house, apartment, hotel room, log cabin, prison cell – equipped with a “plasma wall” incorporating all the telecommunications interfaces that enable social and cultural activity. Each...
by Saskia Rowley | Nov 25, 2019 | Communication Rights
Equitable access to the Internet is one of the claims of today’s communication rights. As the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) points out, not only is the Internet a pathway to information, communication, and economic opportunity, it is increasingly necessary...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 21, 2019 | Communication Rights
Children now represent one third of all Internet users. This number is expected to increase once developing countries – where most of the world’s children live –become digitized. This is both exciting and worrisome. Exciting because it has been established that...
