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The Citizen Lab has submitted an input on digital transnational repression to the OHCHR report on ‘Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age’.
Senior researcher and co-author of the report, Noura Aljizawi, speaks to the Fuller Project about the ways gender is weaponized to silence women.
On March 10, Citizen Lab senior researcher Noura Aljizawi will participate in an OSCE panel titled “From Harm to Justice: Ending Violence Against Women in the Public Sphere in the OSCE Region.” Women who stand at the forefront of efforts to advance gender equality often face severe backlash for their public engagement, impacting individual rights […]
Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by […]
Senior researcher Noura Aljizawi speaks with Nalah Ayed from CBC Ideas about her personal experience of returning to Syria to grieve for the first time in 13 years following the fall of the al-Assad regime. Aljizawi recalls how grieving publicly was not allowed in the wake of the 2011 revolution, despite the importance of collective […]