Civil Liberties
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With Roe v. Wade at Risk, Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom
If Roe is overturned, states will likely use sweeping digital surveillance tools to enforce abortion bans.
Sobre el nuevo protocolo sobre vigilancia transfronteriza en materia de cibercrimen, un llamado a la cautela
En vez de "un enfoque proporcionado ... da prioridad a la aplicación de la ley en detrimento de la privacidad, la protección de datos y los derechos humanos."
On New Cross-Border Cybercrime Policing Protocol, a Call for Caution
The treaty creates a range of new policing powers with weak privacy and human rights standards and fails to include sufficient oversight.
Internal Palestinian Divisions and Their Consequences
Recent municipal elections reinforced the political marginalization of already frustrated younger Palestinians.
US, EU Face Higher Hurdles Now for Action Against Orbán’s Tightening Grip in Hungary
His landslide re-election and Russia's war on Ukraine makes pushback on the region's autocratization harder -- and more needed -- than ever.
What Elon Musk Does Not Get about Twitter and Democracy in Africa
Deferring to local laws to determine the bounds of free speech on Twitter - and Musk has suggested doing - would jeopardize hard-won democratic freedoms in Africa.
How Cambodia’s Human Rights Crackdown Undermines Regional Security
The upcoming White House summit with ASEAN offers a chance for the US to press on human rights abuses and costly alliances with China.
The Beginning of the End for Criminal Defamation in the Americas? The El Universo Case
The judgment strengthens media freedom by repudiating a historic legal tool to stifle dissent and flagging the need for legislative measures.
¿El principio del fin de la difamación penal en las Américas? El caso de El Universo
El fallo del Tribunal es verdaderamente importante para la libertad de los medios de comunicación de la región.
Tunisia’s Democratic Backsliding and Economic Woes Illustrate the Limits of Transition
Transitional justice mechanisms confronted bad timing, political infighting, and demands for structural changes that drove the revolution.
Reclaim the First Amendment — Harvard Law Review Address
Remarks from Jameel Jaffer, Just Security Executive Editor and Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
Mayorkas Must Rein in Homeland Security Investigations
Urgent action is needed to rein in this part of DHS that has too much power and is subject to too little oversight.