About. Global Voices Advocacy is a project of Global Voices Online. We are a global network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. We report on threats to online speech, share tactics for defending the work and words of netizens, and support efforts to improve Internet policy and practice worldwide. As bloggers, activists, journalists and savvy Internet users, we recognize that universal human rights to free expression, access to information, and privacy are being challenged by governments, companies, and other powerful actors worldwide. With over 1300 contributors in 120 countries, we believe that the Global Voices community is uniquely positioned to do something about this. Leadership Hisham Almiraat is the director of GV Advocacy.
Join Us Our contributors are bloggers, activists, journalists, technologists, lawyers and Internet policy experts from around the world. Our work is made possible by Hivos. Rebecca MacKinnon. The Aggie | TED Talks Speaker Rebecca MacKinnon on Internet Freedom and Censorship. China Speakers Bureau David Cameron and more on internet censorship – Jeremy Goldkorn.
ACTA = Global Internet Censorship – Now Even Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Have Your Website Shut Down. The American Dream January 28, 2012 Global Internet censorship is here. SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is far worse than either of them. ACTA was quietly signed by Barack Obama back on October 1st, 2011 and most Americans have never even heard of it. But it could mean the end of the Internet as we know it. This new treaty gives foreign governments and copyright owners incredibly broad powers. So how come the U.S. Of course it does. But Barack Obama has gotten around this by calling ACTA an “executive agreement”, which is a load of crap. Unfortunately, this is the kind of nonsense we are getting out of Obama on a regular basis now.
Some members of Congress are expressing deep alarm over ACTA. There are some members of Congress that are even demanding that ACTA be submitted to the U.S. But this new treaty is very, very serious. You could potentially be sent to prison. Historic! Omoyele Sowore. Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Read ourBlogs Connect with Us Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr Vimeo RSS Buy your Human Rights Awards ticket Take Action Your donations support our critical efforts for peace, justice, and sustainability Follow us on Twitter more Events [GX LOGO] = Global Exchange event In addition to speaking tours, Global Exchange supports many events. 2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor - San Francisco, CA 94110e: web@globalexchange.org | t: 415.255.7296 | f: 415.255.7498 © Global Exchange 2011 Sitemap | Privacy Policy.
Counter Terror With Justice Campaign Speakers List. Raise awareness and inspire action in your community by holding an event with one of these engaging speakers. To secure a speaker and other resources for organizing your event, please contact your Regional Office by calling 1.866.A.REGION or clicking here. Karen Hanscom, Ph.D. Location: Maryland Areas of Focus: Rehabilitation of survivors, the asylum process, and the psychological effects of torture Personal Profile: Dr. Hanscom is the executive director and founder of ASTT – a Baltimore area treatment center for survivors of torture. ASTT provides innovative psychological counseling and physical treatment to individuals that have experienced torture. In addition to direct psychotherapy, ASTT assists survivors in establishing safety in the United States by aiding in the preparation of political asylum documents, provides assistance with social adaptation to the U.S., and helping to educate the public regarding human rights issues.
Doan Viet Hoat Orlando Tizon Location: Washington, DC Dr. CyberDissident Database - Yemen | Afrah Nasser. "CyberDissidents.org is the leading organization in the world principally devoted to online democratic dissidents. " - Kristen Silverberg, former US ambassador to the European Union CyberDissident Database Yemen | Afrah Nasser يقدم موقعنا دليلاً للسير الذاتية الخاصة بالمنشقين الديمقراطيين الرائدين في الشرق الأوسط . وهم بغالبهم مدونون يعيشون في خوفدائم على حياتهم من التعذيب والسجن. يتضمن الدليل صوراً لهم ، ومعلومات أساسية عنهم، وراوبط الأخبار والمقالات ذات الصلة بموضوعهم، بالإضافة إلى وضعهم الحالي (إن كانوا قيد الإعتقال، او خارج المعتقل، إلخ) بالأضافة إلى مقتبسات لأقوال من مواقعهم المعلومات المتوفرة على موقعنا عن المدونين مأخوذة من مواقع عامة وفي غالب الأمر تكون من مواقع الشخصية انفسهم، نحن نؤمن بأن نشطاء الأنترنت هولاء هم اصحاب رسالة مهمة وعلى العالم ان يسمعها.
ولذلك نقوم كمنظمة بإعادة نشر كتاباتهم. الأسماء الموجودة على موقعنا لاتعني ان كل أصحابها هم جزء من شبكتنا، فأسمائهم وجدت على موقعنا لإدراكنا بأن لهؤلاء رسالة وعلى العالم سماعها info@cyberdissidents.org Search Dissidents: Biography: Afrah Nasser. Threatened Voices | Bloggers | Jila Baniyaghoob. Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the most restrictive environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women. She has been fired from several jobs because she refuses to censor the subject matter of her reporting and several of her media outlets have been closed by the government. She has travelled throughout the Middle East, writing accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict.
The topics of her reporting make her a target of the Iranian government. Jila was arrasted on June 20th, 2009, and released on 24 August 2009, on bail of approximately $200,000, after spending two months in incommunicado detention. Threatened Voices | Bloggers | Fereshteh Ghazi. Threatened Voices | Bloggers | Mohamed Refaat. Blog: Status: Released Arrested between 21 Jul 2008 and 18 Aug 2008 The state security apparatus had raided Mohamed Refaat’s home early in the morning on 21st of July 2008 in his absence, and seized his PC, and many of his books, and when Mohamed Refaat approached the officer “ Hisham Tawfik” in the morning in the state security offices, he shocked by the fabricated charges of “inciting to strike on the occasion of 23rd July”, he was then referred to the state security prosecution office in the case no. 1143 for the year 2008.
After being in jail for more than 2 months, the Egyptian blogger Mohamed Refaat was set free. Mohamed told Add-Dostour daily newspaper that the state security officers insisted that he will not go out of his detention custody till he sign a paper saying he will never update his blog neither heis Facebook account , nevertheless dealing with humanitarian NGOs or journalists. Access Denied Map. - StumbleUpon. Ethan Zuckerman. Email Ethan ZuckermanEthan Zuckerman's HomepageEthan Zuckerman's Blog Ethan Zuckerman served a fellow of the Berkman Center from 2003 through 2009. Since 2009, he's been a senior researcher at the center, working on projects that focus on the impact of technology and media on the developing world and on quantitative analysis of media. With Hal Roberts, he is working on comparative studies of tools for censorship circumvention, techniques for blocking-resistant publishing for human rights sites and on the Media Cloud framework for quantitative study of digital media.
Ethan and Berkman fellow Rebecca MacKinnon founded Global Voices, a global citizen media network. In 2000, Ethan founded Geekcorps, a non-profit technology volunteer corps. Prior to founding Geekcorps, Ethan helped found Tripod, an early pioneer in the web community space. In 1993, Ethan graduated from Williams College with a BA in Philosophy.
Current Projects: Josh Benton interviews Ethan Zuckerman about Media Cloud. Cyberbullying Experts: Dr. Tanya Byron | Cyberbullying News | Research, Reviews, Summaries & Expert Interviews for Educators & Researchers. Dr. Tanya Byron is the U.K.’s most public figure on cyberbullying prevention. She was commissioned by the British Prime Minister to do the Byron Report (2008), “an idependent review of the risks children face from the internet and video games”. The Byron Report made recommendations to the Government on what different stakeholders needed to be doing to protect children. Then, in December 2009, the British Government asked her to report on the progress made improving children’s digital safety. In March 2010, in response, she issued her report “Do we have safer children in a digital world?
Her review website, the Byron Review, provides a wealth of information about digital safety and allows direct, free access to both reports. Dr. See also our other blog on Dr. Byron Review, cyberbullying, Digital safety, Dr Tanya Byron, Safer Children in a Digital World, UK and cyberbullying, Who's Who. Experts on Cyberbullying: Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D. | Cyberbullying News | Research, Reviews, Summaries & Expert Interviews for Educators & Researchers. About Dr. Walker | Cyberbullying News | Research, Reviews, Summaries & Expert Interviews for Educators & Researchers. Dr. Jenny Walker is a speaker, consultant and expert on cyberbullying and positive uses of technology among youth. She is a proponent of confidential online polling of young people in specific local schools to inform stakeholders (educators, parents, students, and community members) about specific learning conditions, and to show specific areas for intervention.
She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and an M.A. in Literature from Arizona State University, and a B.A. in Business Administration from Humberside University in the United Kingdom. She has taught British literature, College Composition and English, and has served at a residential group home for teen girls. For over twenty-five years, Dr. Born and raised in England, her early professional life was in London and Hong Kong, with business dealings in Spain, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. Publications 2013: Bauman, S., Toomey, R., & Walker, J. 2013: Walker, J., Craven, R.G., & Tukunaga, R. 2012: Walker, J. (2012). Amanda Lenhart.