Read my reflections on #UN GA78 High Level Week. #UN #HumanRights

🔴ARTICLE 19's Anna Oosterlinck delivers our joint statement during the urgent 🇺🇳United Nations Human Rights Council | 📍 #HRC54 debate on public acts of religious hatred as manifested by the recurrent desecration of the Holy Quran at the #HRC53
📜Read our full statement:
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How free are we? The answer is not very. More people are not free to speak and know than those who can. Read about it in ARTICLE 19 Global Expression Report.

On #WomenInDiplomacy Day, we celebrate the invaluable contributions of women in shaping global relations. 👏

Their agency in diplomacy is key to building bridges, fostering understanding, and creating a more inclusive and peaceful world.

RT if you agree!

“The most important part of the study is evidence, evidence, evidence. This will be a great tool for our work going forward. Thank you for stepping up continuously for civil society.” - Anna Oosterlinck of ARTICLE 19

#DefendCivicSpace

📢Launching 21 June @ defendcivicspace.com

The first Global Study on the Impact of #CT Measures on #CivilSociety & #CivicSpace by #UNSRCT !

If registered for the UN High Level #CT week, RSVP for the launch event (in-person only): forms.gle/xGDWTG7b73hUyW…

📽️: UN Web TV

New #UNSC resolution = highly uncomfortable read if you truly care about #HumanRights inc. #FreeExpression & #Equality . Vage terms eg ‘extremism’ without qualifiers & HR guardrails are misused to shrink #civicspace . 🙏 SwitzerlandUN Malta at the UN 🇲🇹🇺🇳 U.S. Mission to the UN La France à l'ONU 🇫🇷🇺🇳 4 strong EoV

#ICYMI : Look back at our RightsCon session with David Kaye, Foxglove's Rosa Curling, and ARTICLE 19's Chantal Joris + Muthuri Kathure as they discuss Strategic litigation against online platforms.

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Come join us at 11.30am Costa Rica time RightsCon for our cross-sector discussion on human rights due diligence in countering terrorist online content! . Nagham El Karhili David Scharia BSR Dina Hussein United Nations CTED ARTICLE 19

On 6 June, I’m honored to moderate this wonderful panel with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Khalid Ibrahim, Laura O’Brien Access Now and a Dutch government rep at @RightsCon. We will dissect how #HumanRights can & must be protected when countering terrorism. ARTICLE 19

Come and find us at RightsCon !

Thank you to Costa Rica @ the UN and 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY for co-hosting the launch of the SRCT & HR mandate report on regulating spyware. An absolutely full house.

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Join @CSO_coalitionCT reps Charity & Security Network & ARTICLE 19 for a Civil Society Town Hall on the #UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Hosted by Anna Oosterlinck & Ashleigh Subramanian-Montgomery  
With Sally M Mboumien & Ambika Satkunanathan
📅25 April | 10:00-11:45 AM EST
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thanks SwedenUN 🇸🇪 Mission of Rwanda UN 🇷🇼 for today’s consultation on #GlobalDigitalCompact . Existing #HumanRights standards need to be respected offline as well as online. We look forward to contributing to a GDC firmly rooted in human rights & developed through multi stakeholder approach

🇺🇳In 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council | 📍 #HRC54 adopted Resolution 16/18 to tackle hatred and foster greater inclusion worldwide.

🔖Read ARTICLE 19's framework which explores how States and other stakeholders should respond to rising levels of intolerance and hate in societies.
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The #UNSRCT highlights 3 troubling trends in use of new technologies in #CT :

➡️Use of terrorism as a policy rationale to adopt high-risk technologies;
➡️Superficial, inconsistent human rights analysis & practice;
➡️Moves from an initial exception to normalizing general use.

I’ll talk about the need to put #HumanRights at the heart of all #counterterrorism efforts or These risk exacerbating the conditions conducive to terrorism or become sources of rights violations themselves. #HRC52 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin ARTICLE 19

'Combatting terror must never be used as an excuse for trampling on people’s human rights.'

-- António Guterres says counter-terrorism policies & initiatives must ensure the protection of basic human rights. news.un.org/en/story/2023/…

Delighted to join Fionnuala Ní Aoláin at this meeting, echoing the importance of #HumanRights at the heart of countering #terrorism . Also looking forward to your Global Study on the Impact of CT on #CivilSociety & #CivicSpace . United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism United Nations CTED @UN ARTICLE 19

As sole #HumanRights #CivilSociety organisation, I spoke at the @un #CounterTerrorism Compact Coordination Committee, highlighting the need for human rights compliant CT. “Security without #rights is meaningless and #rights advance security” António Guterres United Nations_OCT Fionnuala Ní Aoláin