On August 4, 2016, a Kazakh court ordered the early release of Vladimir Kozlov, an activist who has been jailed since 2012 on politically motivated charges. Kozlov was the leader of the Alga! (Forward) opposition party and a prominent human rights advocate. In 2011, he led an advocacy campaign in support of Zhanaozen oil workers…
BAHRAIN: Nabeel Rajab’s trial has been postponed again to September 5. He is currently awaiting trial for charges in relation to his twitter posts in which he spoke out against the use of torture in Bahrain’s prisons. Others from his organization, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, have had travel bans imposed on them by the…
The Association for Women in International Development’s (AWID) 13th International Forum, “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” will be held on September 8-11, 2016 in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia, Brazil. More than 2,000 participants from a broad diversity of movements and sectors are slated to come together to strategize on issues pertaining…
VICELAND’s latest episode of CYBERWAR interviewed Ron Deibert about Citizen Lab‘s groundbreaking research on repressive regimes’ use of malicious spyware to “spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists.” Commercial surveillance tools are loosely regulated and Citizen Lab has publicized invaluable information documenting the growing market between technology firms in the West, and authoritarian governments…