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UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

[NEW!] Call for Submissions: The Surveillance Industry and Human Rights

Over the next year, the Special Rapporteur will study State and business responsibilities to limit the export and use of surveillance technologies to undermine fundamental rights. Click here to engage in our study.

Mapping the Impact of #AI on Freedom of Expression

Artificial Intelligence is deeply embedded in today's information environment. How should the design and use of AI to curate, analyze, and share information protect our rights to freedom of opinion and expression?

Report on #FREEDEX and platform content regulation

Social media has changed and shaped the ways in which we express ourselves, seek and receive information, and communicate with each other. How should human rights standards apply on these platforms?

Access to Information in International Organizations

The workings of international organizations, including the United Nations, are deeply opaque to most people. How should they open up to the public?

#FREEDEX and the Internet and Telecommunications Access Industry

The Internet is at a crossroads. Thousands of new users are connected daily. But users are also facing unprecedented levels of censorship and surveillance online. What can digital access providers do to protect their users?

Comments on New Australian Law on Online “Abhorrent Violent Material”

Australia has adopted a law that would penalize platforms and their executives for a failure to control what it calls “abhorrent violent material.” The law is deeply problematic, as was the extraordinarily compressed timeframe for its adoption (basically two days).

Zimbabwe policies hitting poor hardest, say UN rights experts

GENEVA (4 April 2019) – Government policies in Zimbabwe are worsening the country’s economic crisis, causing immense hardship to those less well-off, and crushing the human rights of those who dare complain, a group of UN experts* has warned. “We

Plans to redevelop UK’s Seven Sisters market pose human rights threat, say UN experts

GENEVA (26 March 2019) – Plans to press ahead with the redevelopment of the Seven Sisters Indoor Market in London threaten the cultural rights of residents and traders who are mainly of minority origin, say a group of UN human

Venezuela: UN experts condemn widespread rights violations reported during protests

GENEVA (21 March 2019) – Human rights violations which are reported to have taken place during protests in Venezuela have been condemned by UN human rights experts* as systematic and pervasive. “We are deeply concerned about the rapidly deteriorating economic,