Digital Rights Progress
Digital Rights have long been recognized as crucial to development and growth. Having a right to an internet connection is a vital component of making the freedom of expression real and meaningful....
View ArticleThe Exception as Rule: Protracted States of Emergency
Declaring a state of emergency opens the door to an exceptional world, one in which government power is temporarily prioritized over individual rights. Unfortunately, many countries (see examples...
View ArticleKeyword in Focus: Gay Rights
In the wake of an Ugandan newspaper publishing the names and pictures of the country’s “top homosexuals” recently (with an appalling banner reading ‘Hang them’ on the cover), gay rights across the...
View ArticleEurope’s Pariah People
With over 10 million members, the Roma (also called Romani) constitute today’s largest EU minority group. Scattered across a dozen countries, with their largest concentrated populations in Central and...
View ArticleMr. Chavez and the Jews
Merely a decade ago, close to 20,000 Jews called Venezuela their home. Yet in these past ten years, during President Hugo Chavez extended tenure, their number has dropped to less than 9,000. This...
View ArticleYou Can Run – Or You Can Hide
On 26 January of this year, David Kato Kisule, a prominent gay rights campaigner from the east African nation of Uganda, was beaten to death with a hammer in his house near the country’s capital of...
View ArticleMisguided Priorities for Internet Governance
This is a cross-post from the Lowy Institute’s blog, The Interpreter. If you had to choose between human rights and governance, which one would you pick? Most might go for human rights, but when it...
View ArticleUganda’s Anti-Gay Law Shelved – Backgrounder
Promising news from Uganda: the parliament has adjourned without debating a controversial bill that would have mandated life prison for homosexual acts and the death penalty for ‘aggravated’ cases. The...
View ArticleGhana Moves to Arrest Homosexuals
In a new burst of African homophobia, Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, a government minister in Ghana, has drawn much national support and international condemnation after calling on the country’s intelligence...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligent Agents: Prerequisites for Rights and Dignity
This article was originally published in Volume 2, Issue 2 of Age of Robots magazine on 6 March 2018. IBM’s Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer that achieved remarkable success in 1997 when it...
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