Digital Rights [Podcast]

In our podcast Digital Rights Explored: Local Fights, Global Perspectives, we dive deep to undestand the most relevant digital rights violations of our time. From targeted disinformation to hate speech, abuse of personal data and others.

In each episode, we talk to people on the ground to find out how digital rights affect our lives. We also interview experts to understand these issues on a global level and together look at concrete solutions for these challenges.

EPISODES

Internet Shutdowns

In Kashmir (India) citizens suffered the longest imposed Internet shutdown of history. For 213 days, they were completely kept in the dark.

Mir Basit Hussain, a journalist and the initiator of the first digital news platform in the valley – Free Press Kashmir – tells us what Kashmireans were doing to get information in and out of the state.

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Digital Security: Threats & Activism

Across Latin America, Indigenous human rights defenders have been targeted by enemies who wish to see them silenced because of their work.

As more and more communities are getting online, so does the risk of harassment and threats, hacking, and other types of digital disruptions.