The United States government has gone from taking the leading role in supporting an open and safe internet to demonstrating how to dismantle it. Last week, I joined over 3,200 digital rights activists ...

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) and Tāhono Trust join the global digital rights community in expressing deep sadness at the sudden news that RightsCon 2026 will not go ahead next week, ...

Yesterday, the third annual RightsCon kicked off in San Francisco. The conference brings together tech executives, diplomats, policy advocates, and self-described cypherpunks who sometimes double as ...

Costa Rica will host the 2020 convention of RightsCon, which calls itself “the world’s leading event on human rights in the digital age.” The announcement was made Friday at the close of RightsCon ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The U.S.-based organizers of an international human rights conference said they canceled it days before it was due to open because China pressured the African host country ...

The world’s largest digital human rights summit, due to meet for the 15th year and in southern Africa for the first time on 5-8 May, was derailed when Zambia pulled the plug as delegates were already ...

China has been accused of pressuring Zambia to block Taiwanese participation and censor discussions critical of Beijing ahead of the RightsCon digital rights summit, prompting organisers to condemn ...

RightsCon takes place later this month in Brussels. Since its inception in 2011, RightsCon has been one of the primary gatherings where human rights activists, politicians, technologists, scholars, ...

The cancellation of RightsCon 2026 in Zambia, just days before it was due to open, is no mere diplomatic incident but a clear signal that even the most established forums for digital rights are ...