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By Amy Dickens Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 31 March to 7 April 2017. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Ajay Sandhu I recently interviewed Tanya O’Carroll, a Technology and Human Rights advisor at Amnesty International, to discuss government surveillance and its impact. I framed our discussion around the most common response researchers studying surveillance receive from the public: the “nothing to hide” argument. The nothing to hide argument alleges that government surveillance programs serve […]
By Karinna Fernández, Cristián Peña and Sebastián Smart Scholars and commentators have focused on Chile as a successful example of democratic transition, but much still remains to be done around improving human rights compliance in the country. For example, Chile has failed to effectively address some of the atrocities perpetrated during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship of […]
By Tola Akindipe, Giulia Carlini, Elizabeth Mangenje, Tommaso Poli, Udita Sharma Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world. Africa Uganda: Arrests of Dozens Attending Peaceful Meetings is Absurd – Amnesty International Children Increasingly Targeted for Murder, Rape […]
By Amy Dickens Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 31 March to 7 April 2017. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Udita Sharma, Elizabeth Mangenje, Tola Akindipe, and Giulia Carlini Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world. International New refugee framework “dead in the water” without more international support-IRIN Environmental defenders being killed in record […]
By Amy Dickens Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 31 March to 7 April 2017. You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Ajay Sandhu The precarious state of privacy often fails to stir public attention. For example, the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), a piece of legislation granting police and intelligence agencies sweeping surveillance powers in the UK, is said to have passed into law “with barely a whimper.” What explains this lukewarm response? How does the US […]
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world. International ‘A human right, not a bonus’: readers on campaigning for disability rights – The Guardian Africa Tanzania: Stop Threatening Rights Groups – Human […]
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world. International ‘Inclusive, equitable and quality education’ at the heart of high-level UN event – UN News Centre UN experts call for resistance as battle […]
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