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Joint statement on the cybercrime treaty, January 2024

Access Now and more than 100 NGOs demand state delegates to amend the draft cybercrime treaty in the upcoming concluding session of UN AHC. ....

Sri Lanka , Wolfgang Kleinwaechter , Derechos Digitales , Instituto Nupef , Los Derechos Digitales , Derechoy Tecnologia , Valerie Steeves , Douwe Korff , Institute For Research On Internet , Development Media Freedoms , Electronic Frontier Foundation , Electronic Privacy Information Center , Globe International Center , Laboratory Of Public , Korean Progressive Network Center , Bangladesh Ngos Network For Radio Communication , Syrian Center , International Commission Of Jurists , Bahrain Center , Media Foundation For West Africa , Centre For Free Expression , Cambodian Center , Albanian Media Institute , European Network For Professionalization Of Media , Paradigm Initiative , Palestinian Center ,

UN Cybercrime Convention must not become a tool to undermine international human rights standards

Signatories stress that the Convention should only move forward if it pursues a specific goal of combating cybercrime without endangering the human rights and fundamental freedoms of those it seeks to protect, nor undermining efforts to improve cybersecurity for an open internet. ....

Sri Lanka , Los Derechos Digitales , Derechos Digitales , Valerie Steeves , Wolfgang Kleinwaechter , Douwe Korff , Instituto Nupef , Derechoy Tecnologia , Centre For Free Expression , Globe International Center , Bc Civil Liberties Association , International Commission Of Jurists , European Center , Cyberpeace Institute , London Metropolitan University , Syrian Center , University Of Ottawa , European Summer School In Internet Governance , Innovation Technology , Cartoonists Rights Network International , International Federation Of Human Rights , Centre For Information Technology , International Press Institute , Freedom House , Committee To Protect Journalists , Surveillance Resistance Lab ,

Joint Statement on the Proposed Cybercrime Treaty Ahead of the Concluding Session

23 January, 2024We, the undersigned organizations and individual experts call on the state delegations participating in the concluding session of the United Nations (UN) Ad Hoc Committee to ensure that the proposed Cybercrime Convention (the Convention) is narrowly focused on tackling cybercrime,. ....

Sri Lanka , Douwe Korff , Wolfgang Kleinwaechter , Valerie Steeves , Derechoy Tecnologia , Instituto Nupef , Derechos Digitales , Los Derechos Digitales , Maharat Foundation , Privacy International , Digital Empowerment Foundation , Foundation For Information Policy Research , Media Institute Of Southern Africa , Department Of Criminology , Cybercrime Convention The , Federation Of Nepali Journalists , Human Rights Network For Journalists , Surveillance Resistance Lab , Network On Burma , Centre For Feminist Foreign Policy , Centre For Information Technology , Development Media Freedoms , Media Foundation For West Africa , Pakistan Press Foundation , European Center , Freedom House ,

CSOs Urge Parliament to Stop PVO Amendment Bill

A group of Civil society organisations has written to the Zimbabwean Speaker of Parliament expressing their collective concern regarding the Private Voluntary ....

United States , Sri Lanka , Peacebuilding Cemesp Liberia , Jacob Mudenda , Ngos Pvos , Association Of Caribbean Media Workers , Journalism Center Moldova , Zimbabwean Speaker Of Parliament , Financial Action Task Force , Africa Freedom Of Information Centre , Media Foundation For West Africa , International Covenant On Civil , Freedom Forum , Parliament Of Zimbabwe , Development Media Freedoms , Initiative For Freedom Of Turkey Ifox , International Press Centre , South East Europe Media Organisation , Freedom Of Expression Institute , Palestinian Center , Institute For Media , World Association Of Community Radio Broadcasters , Media Institute For Southern Africa , Africa Freedom Of Expression Exchange , Free Media Movement Sri Lanka , High Court ,

Groups: Vaccine Roll-Out Exposes Israel's Inhumane Acts of Apartheid

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The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian National Institute for NGOs (PNIN) are concerned that since commencing the roll out of a vaccine against COVID-19 in December 2020,
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Israeli occupying authorities have implemented its vaccine policy in a discriminatory, unlawful, and racist manner by completely disregarding its obligations to Palestinian healthcare. Throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), apart from East Jerusalem, Israeli occupying authorities have reserved access to the vaccine to the unlawfully transferred in settler population of Jewish Israelis in illegal settlements, and denied the vaccine to the Palestinian population. According to data collected by the University of Oxford, around 1.99 million Israelis, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem had been vaccinatedby 13 January 2021. According to the State ....

Israel General , Gaza Strip General , Gaza Strip , West Bank , Arab Women Union , West Bank General , Hilary Gbedemah , Sareyyet Ramallah , Un Committee , Service Of Man , Human Rights Rehabilitation Center , Palestine Negotiation Affairs Department , Palestine Amputee Football Association , Palestinian Family Planning Protection Association , Al Atta Charitable Society , Governmental Organizations Network , Bait Al Mostuqbal Association , Justice Association , Society Of Women Graduates In Gaza , Palestinian Institute For Communication , Wassel Center , Development Media Freedoms , International Humanitarian Law , Central Blood Bank Society , Red Crescent Society For Gaza , Free Thought Association ,