Tag: Human rights
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The Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, is currently preparing a report on the legal framework governing the relationship between freedom of expression and the use of encryption to secure transactions and communications, and other technologies to transact and communicate anonymously online. This…
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Tow Center Report – THE NEW GLOBAL JOURNALISM: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE IN TRANSITION
[Including this chapter, close to my heart:] A Professional Kinship: Journalism and Advocacy With media tools like video recording and Internet transmission now widely available, people and institutions all over the globe have the ability to commit journalistic acts. Advocacy organizations such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS have developed digital skills put to practice with the…
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Contemporary debate about compensation for past wrongs turns on the assumption that state reparations benefits the victims of atrocity by acknowledging harm and ameliorating victim suffering. Indeed, much recent theoretical and practical work has concurred to establish reparation to victims of state crimes as a cornerstone of human rights. However, this article argues that reparation…
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Typically within existing academic debates, forensic databases are seen as tools of state surveillance and are deeply connected to issues of privacy. This project moves the debate beyond these themes to explore how citizen-led forensic databases can be used as a tool for reparation and truth finding. The project breaks with traditional (state-centric) ways of…
Sameer Padania 