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Content type: Advocacy
This stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International (PI) and Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. (DRI). PI is a human rights organisation that works to advance and promote the right to privacy and ght surveillance around the world. DRI is an Irish group dedicated to defending civil, legal and human rights in a digital age. PI and DRI wish to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in Ireland before the Human Rights Council for consideration in Ireland…
Content type: Advocacy
This stakeholder report is submitted by the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa and Privacy International (PI). PI, THRDC and CIPESA wish to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in the United Republic of Tanzania (thereafter “Tanzania”) before the Human Rights Council for consideration in its upcoming review.
Content type: Advocacy
This stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International (PI) and Thai Netizen Network (TNN). PI is a human rights organisation that works to advance and promote the right to privacy and ght surveillance around the world. TNN is a Bangkok-based organisation that works to promote human rights in Internet policy and support the work of human rights defenders in digital environment. PI and TNN wish to to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in…
Content type: News & Analysis
In 2015 the United Nations' human rights mechanisms significantly increased their capacity to monitor and assess states' compliance with their obligations around the right to privacy. Notably, the Human Rights Council established the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, filling a significant gap in the international human rights protection system. Meanwhile, the Human Rights Committee put surveillance laws and practices in a range of countries under close scrutiny, making…