Human Rights

Monetization, not human rights or vulnerable communities, matter most at Twitter under Musk

It’s no coincidence that Twitter "experienced a surge in racists slurs in the first few days after Musk’s $44 billion acquisition". Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist", does not care about the human rights of vulnerable communities.

The Canadian Progressive
November 24, 2022

Human rights groups: “Iranian authorities must immediately release technologists and digital rights defenders”

Access Now, ARTICLE19, Front Line Defenders and the Electronic Frontier Foundation "strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ ruthless persecution, harassment, and arrest of technologists and digital rights defenders amid the deadly crackdown on nationwide protests" triggered by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

The Canadian Progressive
October 17, 2022

Egypt: Global coalition calls for release of Mohamed el-Baqer and Alaa Abdel Fattah on three year anniversary of their arrests

Civil society organizations call on the government of Egypt to immediately release Egyptian human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and drop all charges against them

The Canadian Progressive
September 30, 2022

A new Declaration for the Future of the Internet

Meanwhile, Internet freedom declined for the fifth time in a row in the U.S., and for the 11th consecutive year globally, according to Freedom House

Obert Madondo
June 20, 2022

Governments must break Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine

Responding to the recent 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly 300 civil society organizations from around the world issued the following call on governments to break the “Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine”.

Guest Blog
June 17, 2022

Canada delivered only 3.2m of the 40m COVID-19 doses it pledged to poor countries

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a supposedly caring and compassionate "world leader", has so far delivered only 3.2 million (8%) of the 40 million life-saving COVID-19 doses Canada pledged to Africa and other poor regions of the Global South with overwhelming BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, People of Colour) majorities, according to a damning report released this week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

Obert Madondo
October 23, 2021

Obert Madondo is an Ottawa-based digital artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer, web designer, digital rights enthusiast, digital storytelling enthusiast, aspiring filmmaker, and online publisher.

Obert is a former political aide to a prominent former Zimbabwean lawmaker, human rights defender and former freedom fighter. Obert has previously worked as an international development administrator in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, and Canada.

Obert is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Canadian Progressive, an independent political blog dedicated to producing fearless, evidence-based, adversarial, unapologetic, progressive and activism-oriented journalism situated right at the intersection of politics, technology and human rights.

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