Quantcast
Channel: Global Voices Advocacy » Activism
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 131 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hong Kong Voting Site Suffers Massive DDoS Attack Before Civil Referendum

Digital attack map, June 14. Destination: Hong Kong. Just days before a citizen-led online referendum on voting rights, the technical platform that advocates had planned to use for the referendum...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Administrative Court Lawsuit: Stop Social Media Surveillance in Egypt

The original version of this post was published on the AFTE blog. On June 17, 2014, a number of human rights groups and concerned citizens filed lawsuit number 63055/68 in Egypt's Administrative Court...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hong Kong: Massive DDoS Attacks Continue, Targeting Pro-Democracy News Site

Occupy Central forum in April 2013. The forum was disrupted by Pro-Beijing groups in Hong Kong. Photo by Bandari Lei via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Days after a massive DDoS attack on a citizen-led online...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hundreds of Pro-Democracy Protesters Arrested in Hong Kong After...

Hundreds of protesters are surrounded by police in the early morning hours of July 2 on Chater Road in Hong Kong. Photo from inmediahk.net. Non-commercial use. More than 500 protesters demanding...

View Article

Bahraini Satirist Blogger Takrooz Arrested

The Bahrain Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of yet another netizen, who reportedly faces accusations of “inciting hatred against the regime.” The satirist mirco-blogger, nicknamed Takrooz,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

7 Cases That Prove Online Activism is Under Siege in Saudi Arabia

Raif Badawi campaign poster; photo of Waleed Abu Al-Khair, from Al-Khair's Twitter account. In Saudi Arabia, the crackdown against online activists has risen to extremely worrying levels in recent...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How to Temper Internet Trolls: Tips from the Field

Troll doll photo by Eirik Solheim via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Written by Ghausia Rashid Salam. The original version of this post appear on Bolo Bhi's blog. Learn about this and other partnerships. We see...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The World Tweets for Ethiopia's Zone9 Bloggers on July 31

Free Zone9 Tumblr collage. Images used with permission. Join Global Voices bloggers for a worldwide, multilingual tweetathon in support of the ten bloggers and journalists facing terrorism charges in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“The Zone 9 Bloggers are Writing from the Outer Ring of the Prison, the...

Zone9 bloggers. Photos compiled by friends, used with permission. Once upon a time, there was a blog. It was written in Amharic, the dominant language in Ethiopia, by a team of young journalists and...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“From the [Four] Compass Points of the Earth Arises a Mighty Cry —...

Free Zone 9 Vigil, August 2, 2014. Martin Luther King Memorial, Washington, DC. Photo by EthioTube via Facebook. “From the rising of the sun to its setting, from the [four] compass points of the earth,...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 131 View Live




Latest Images