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26 January 2013

Video Advocacy Races Forward: 2012’s Dangers & 2013’s Solutions

Written by WITNESS · Activism, Advocacy, Anonymity, Arrest and Harassment, Bahrain, Brazil, Burma, China, Feature, Human Rights, Latin America, Middle East & North Africa, Protest, Saudi Arabia, Surveillance, Syria

Video is increasingly at the nexus of opportunity and danger for human rights activists. Video helps activists to document, confront, circumvent, and lobby against oppressive authorities—but it also allows those authorities to stalk them. Here's what we think will happen in 2013.

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10 January 2013

#DELETECONTROL/: Campaign Against Digital Repression

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Activism, Advocacy, Anonymity, Arrest and Harassment, Campaign, Feature, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, video

The Humanist Institute for Cooperation, Hivos, in partnership with Global Voices Advocacy, Witness, Mideast Youth and Tactical Technology Collective, are launching #DELETECONTROL/, a campaign to help threatened netizens fight against digital repression.

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31 December 2012

10 New Year's Resolutions to Browse the Internet Safely in 2013

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Activism, Advocacy, Anonymity, Feature, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Surveillance

As 2012 draws to a close, dear reader, here at team Advox, we've decided to suggest 10 resolutions for 2013, presented in the form of a review of the tools and strategies to protect yourself online.

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18 December 2012

Right to Forget: Between Data Protection, Memory and Personal Life in the Digital Era

Written by CELE · Translated by Gabriela Garcia Calderon · Advocacy, Feature, Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property, Internet governance, Latin America, Law, Regulation

A new essay from the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information addresses the question of the "right to forget," one that might give back to individuals the control over their own information and, additionally, free them from their “digital past”.

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15 December 2012

What Happened at the WCIT-12: Interview With Beatriz Busaniche

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Conference, Feature, Internet governance, Interviews, Privacy, Regulation, Surveillance, video

The World Conference on International Telecommunications has just ended in Dubai, UAE. Beatriz Busaniche from Fundacion Vida Libre, Argentina, explains what was at stake at the UN-sponsored meeting.

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12 December 2012

Global Voices Where Every Voice Counts

Written by Sana Saleem · Advocacy, Bahrain, Egypt, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Latin America, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, REGIONS & COUNTRIES, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan

The idea that every voice counts is one that is very close to the notion of Global Voices as a platform and as a community. As netizens unite to have their voices heard when the world's authorities argue on who should run the internet, we decided to ask our diverse community to participate and speak out on issues that matter to them and look back at issues we have covered over the year bearing in mind that every voice counts.

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7 December 2012

The WCIT Wake-Up Call: Time To Broaden the Discussion on Internet Governance

Written by Danielle Kehl · Advocacy, Conference, Feature, Internet governance, Regulation

World leaders are meeting in Dubai this week for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), and depending on whose perspective you get, the future of the entire Internet as we know it may be at stake.

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