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Letter to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime

(New York) - Human Rights Watch together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and over 125 non-governmental organizations and academics sent the following letter, urging Members of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime to ensure that…
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Joint Letter Urging EU Targeted Sanctions Against NSO Group

Dear EU High Representative Borrell and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We are writing following credible revelations that Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware was used to hack the devices of six Palestinian human rights activists – the…
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Letter to Instacart Re: Policies on Independent Contractors

Dear Mr. Mehta, We are writing to you from Human Rights Watch, which is a global non-governmental organization that monitors violations of human rights by state and non-state actors in more than 90 countries around the world. We have been conducting…
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Letter to Shipt Re: Policies on Independent Contractors

Dear Ms. Caruso: We are writing to you from Human Rights Watch, which is a global non-governmental organization that monitors violations of human rights by state and non-state actors in more than 90 countries around the world. We have been…
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Cambodia: Joint Open Letter to Foreign Governments

21 July 2020 Your excellency, We, the undersigned 33 civil society organizations, urge the Governments of Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and…
Communities reiterate their calls for adequate housing rights and an end to land conflicts on World Habitat Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 5, 2015.
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Joint Statement on Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP)

Drop Defamation Complaints Against Rights Defenders

(Bangkok, December 3, 2018)—We, the 16 undersigned organizations, call on the Thai authorities and Thammakaset Company Limited to ensure that the criminal and civil defamation complaints brought by the company against human rights defenders Nan Win and…
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Supplemental Coalition Comments Re: Assistance and Access Bill 2018

To whom it may concern: In response to the invitation of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), by email of October 28, 2018, to submit further comments on the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment…
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An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

The World's Freedom of Expression is in Your Hands

Dear Mark Zuckerberg: What do the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Danish member of parliament, and a news anchor from the Philippines have in common? They have all been subject to a misapplication of Facebook’s Community Standards. But unlike the…

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