Newsletter - April 2021
Announcements
We are delighted to announce that the U.S. Embassy to Canada has awarded MIGS a grant to organize a virtual speaker series titled “Countering Digital Authoritarianism”. MIGS will bring American and Canadian experts together to discuss how new technologies are being used to suppress human rights.
MIGS was selected to host a panel discussion titled “Spotlight on Digital Authoritarianism” at the 10th edition of RightsCon taking place June 7-11, 2021.
19 April 2021
MIGS is hosting its monthly “Democracy Drinks” in partnership with the Canadian International Council. Distinguished Canadian career diplomat, Jeremy Kinsman, will be this month’s guest.
Canada Recognized China s Actions Against Uyghurs As Genocide. Here s What You Need To Know
Destruction of religious and cultural sites, forced labour and arbitrary detention: China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims needs to be held to account.
March 15, 2021
Protesters gather outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Monday, February 22, 2021. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Canada’s parliament recently voted to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim populations as genocide, making them the second country to do so after the U.S. Here’s what you need to know about Uyghurs, what’s happening to them in China and why there’s been an international push to recognize genocide and impose consequences on China in attempts to stop the ongoing human rights abuses.
Women and visible minorities in media are disproportionately targeted by hate speech online.
Author of the article: T Cha Dunlevy • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Mar 02, 2021 • March 2, 2021 • 4 minute read • In general, social media are both an incredible asset for people who do not have a voice in traditional media, and also a very dangerous weapon, says columnist Emilie Nicolas, who is regularly subject to rape threats, insults, death threats because of her opinions. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
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Newsletter - February 2021
Announcements
MIGS is delighted to launch the Canadian Women Leaders Digital Defence Initiative with support from the Department of Heritage’s Digital Citizens Contribution Program. The initiative will examine the impact of disinformation and online harms targeting Canadian women leaders. The first roundtable discussion will take place on
25th February. Speakers include Supriya Dwivedi (Power and Politics),
Lana Cuthbertson (Areto Lab),
Marilou McPhedran (Senator) You can register here.
We are delighted to once again partner with the Canada Human Rights Watch Film Festival which opened on February 18th with A La Calle: - the first-hand account of the efforts of ordinary Venezuelans to reclaim their democracy from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro”.