Tag: United Nations

The new United Nations privacy resolution recognizes that companies must act to protect rights.

Our UPR submissions to the United Nations highlight risks to digital rights in Brazil, India, and the U.K.

Here’s what’s on the agenda for digital rights at the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Only five days after the U.N. passed an historic resolution specifically condemning internet shutdowns, reports from Zimbabwe suggest that the government may have ordered WhatsApp blocked.

The document condemns internet shutdowns and renews earlier resolutions that declared, unequivocally, that human rights apply online just as they do offline.

Here’s what we’re prioritizing this week at the 32nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye maps out the pathway for developing global business standards to defend free expression and privacy in the digital age.

After we spent years applying for accreditation at the United Nations, the NGO Committee granted our request. It should now do the same for other groups, and reform the process.

A look at the digital rights landscape in Mauritania and Rwanda, and the implications for people at risk of human rights violations in these countries.

The U.S. government does not protect the privacy rights of non-citizens beyond its borders. That’s the message it will deliver at the U.N. Human Rights Council tomorrow in its official response to the 348 recommendations received during the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.S. human rights record in Geneva.