Rights

Photo from the 2016 GISWatch launch about economic, social and cultural rights and the internet at the IGF in Mexico Photo from the 2016 GISWatch launch about economic, social and cultural rights and the internet at the IGF in Mexico

What we work for

Human rights norms and standards integrate gender and development, and are respected and promoted in internet and ICT policy, governance, development and practice.

 

Our strategies

  • Conduct and disseminate rights-related research to inform policy and advocacy.

  • Engage with national, regional and global human rights mechanisms to take up internet and ICT rights-related issues (including economic, social and cultural rights).

  • Campaigning, research, advocacy and network building to counter internet surveillance and censorship by states and corporations.

  • Engage with SDG and other development processes to promote integration of internet, information and communications rights.

  • Strengthen capacity of civil society actors to identify and respond to internet-related human rights violations.

  • Engage global women’s rights mechanisms and processes to integrate internet-related issues.

  • Advocacy, capacity building and further research to integrate economic, social and cultural rights into the internet rights agenda.

 

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