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Direito à comunicação e internet: O empoderamento digital como garantia deste direito no ambiente online
São Paulo: Intervozes (2018), 12 pp.
"Se, num primeiro momento parecia suficiente a oferta do acesso à Internet, hoje sabe-se que o direito à comunicação não será exercido de maneira plena na rede se esta não se mantiver um ambiente diverso e que respeite direitos fundamentais como a liberdade de expressão e a privacidade dos u
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Evade la censura en internet: Cómo acceder a sitios web bloqueados o invisibles
Key Guides
Caracas: Espacio Público (2017), 1 p.
"En redes públicas, de trabajo o proveedores en algunos países bloquean determinados sitios web con propósitos asociados a la censura de ideas o información. Los bloqueos procuran restringir el acceso. Los sitios web siguen activos y mantienen la información que pretenden censurar." (Introducci
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Advocating for Openness: Nine Ways Civil Society Groups Have Mobilized to Defend Internet Freedom
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)
"Civil society groups from the Global South are leading the charge to advocate for an Internet that remains open, pluralistic, and democratic. The nine case studies highlighted in this report demonstrate various ways groups in different countries have successfully fought for policies and norms that
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Comparative Study on Blocking, Filtering and Take-Down of Illegal Internet Content
Council of Europe (2017), 31 pp.
"The study consists, essentially, of two main parts. The first part represents a compilation of country reports for each of the Council of Europe member states. It presents a more detailed analysis of the laws and practices in respect of filtering, blocking and takedown of illegal content on the int
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Unshackling Expression: A Study on Laws Criminalising Expression Online in Asia
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2017), 141 pp.
"In this special edition of GISWatch, Unshackling Expression, APC brings together analysis on the criminalisation of online expression from six Asian states: Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand. While the report mostly focuses on criminalisation, curbs placed on expression usin
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Case Study on ICT and Human Rights (Policies of EU)
European Commission (2017), x, 95 pp.
"The first part of the study focuses on the EU’s internal policies in the field of online content regulation. Drawing on case-studies of three EU directives – Directive 2000/31/EC on e-commerce, Directive 2011/93/EU on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child porn
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Die Macht der Informationsintermediäre: Erscheinungsformen, Strukturen und Regulierungsoptionen
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2016), 96 pp.
"Zunehmend ist es nämlich nicht mehr die Frage „Was wird verbreitet?“, sondern die Frage „Was wird gefunden und kann verarbeitet werden?“, die über die Vielfalt der von uns wahrgenommenen Inhalte entscheidet. Vordergründig ist die Zahl der zur Verfügung stehenden Informationen ins Unerme
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"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec
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Safeguarding Human Rights on the Net
Council of Europe (2016), 6 pp.
"Revelations on mass online surveillance and regular reports on abuses of the rights to privacy and free expression clearly show the need to effectively protect human rights on the net. The Council of Europe works with governments, the private sector, civil society and other actors to shape the Inte
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Watchdogs Under Watch: Media in the Age of Cyber Surveillance
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 20 pp.
"The fundamental problem with cyber surveillance, even for the most well-intentioned governments, is that laws have not evolved with the technology. Governments must enforce the laws that exist and apply them to the modern age. And they should consider that just because technology makes surveillance
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The Deep Web and the Darknet, a Look Inside the Internet's Massive Black Box
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2015), 17 pp.
"The scale of the Internet’s underworld is immense. The number of non-indexed web sites, known as the Deep Web, is estimated to be 400 to 500 times larger than the surface web of indexed, searchable web sites. And the Deep Web is where the dark side of the Internet flourishes. While there are plen
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The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: A Positive Agenda for Human Rights Online
London: Global Partners Digital (2015), 20 pp.
"The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms was drafted by African civil society organisations to guide the creation of a positive, rights-based and democratically governed Internet policy environment in Africa. The initiative is part of a rich heritage of freedom of expression advocacy
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The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age: Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xi, 143 pp.
"This edited volume documents the current reflections on the 'Right to be Forgotten' and the interplay between the value of memory and citizen rights about memory. It provides a comprehensive analysis of problems associated with persistence of memory, the definition of identities (legal and social)
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State of Evidence: The Economic Impact of a Human Rights-Based Internet
London: Global Partners Digital (2014), 30 pp.
"This paper takes four key policy issues for protecting human rights online - net neutrality; an absence of arbitrary online filtering and blocking; an absence of arbitrary surveillance; and protecting intermediaries from liability for user-generated content. For each policy area it summarises the t
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Internet Rights That Went Wrong in Turkey
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 17 pp.
"This report presents an up-to-date assessment of internet rights in Turkey, and has been prepared to coincide with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2014 which is being hosted by Turkey in Istanbul from 2–5 September 2014. The IGF is a space that strives for a democratic and inclusive internet
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Überwachtes Deutschland: Post- und Telefonüberwachung in der alten Bundesrepublik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2013), 377 pp.
The Right to Blog
London: Article 19 (2013), 48 pp.
"In this policy paper, ARTICLE 19 proposes a set of recommendations to state actors and policy makers about what they should do to promote and protect the rights of bloggers domestically and internationally. It also gives practical advice to bloggers about their rights and explains how - and in what
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Communication Rights Ten Years After the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil Society Perceptions
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 32 pp.
"This report responds to the opportunity provided by the WSIS+10 review which will culminate in 2015. Its purpose is to collate civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003. The results are being u
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