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- Crip Camp (2020) Directors: Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Every summer, thousands of kids leave home to attend summer camp. Camp Jened was special.
- Coded Bias (2020) Director: Shalini Kantayya. While working as an MIT media researcher, Joy Buolamwini noticed that facial recognition systems didn’t work for her.
- Reversing Roe (2018) Director: Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. Released before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the film “Reversing Roe” examined the history of the battle between the pro-choice and anti-choice movements.
- Rustin (2023) Director: George C. Wolfe. Bayard Rustin was a leader in the Civil Rights movement, as well as the movements for socialism and gay rights.
May 9, 2014 · The film focuses on four researchers in the Human Rights Watch emergencies division, or E-Team, as they interview witnesses and gather other evidence of rights abuses and war crimes in Syria,...
- New Laws A Cause For Concern
- Social Media Shut-Downs
- The EU’s Digital Services Act: An Opportunity to Regulate Well
- Five Actions For A Way Forward
- Companies Can and Must Do Better
In the aftermath of the torrent of racist abuse directed towards Black English football players following the UEFA Euro 2021 final, calls have increased in the United Kingdom to implement new online legislation, and quickly. But the draft Online Safety Bill, which was tabled in May, would make provisions that are likely to lead to the removal of si...
The flagging of content by social media companies has also led to some drastic responses by governments, including major disruptions. Last month, the Nigerian government announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the platform deleted a post from President Buhari’s account saying it violated company policies. Within hours, Nigeria’s major ...
Decisions made in the European Union in the coming months could have an impact on digital policy globally, according to UN Human Rights. The EU is currently considering the Digital Services Act, the draft of which has some positive elements: it is grounded in human rights language, it contains clear transparency requirements for platforms, and it w...
To address the dilemmas of regulation and moderation of online content, UN Human Rights has proposed five actions for States and companies to consider. First, UN Human Rights urges that the focus of regulation should be on improving content moderation processes, rather than adding content-specific restrictions. For example, when faced with complex ...
Social media companies are often criticised both for failing to take down harmful content, and also for when they actually do so. In either case, there are few channels for people to use to address their concerns. As an example, during the recent upsurge in violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in May, Palestinian voices were di...
Whether it’s making a positive or negative impact, the role of media should be understood. In this article, we’ll discuss the media’s connection and responsibility to human rights, its potential as a force for harm, and what a responsible media can look like.
Mar 11, 2024 · On March 14, 2022, Netflix’s shares were down to more than 50% by losing all its pandemic gains. Investors have faced the biggest loss; even big companies have withdrawn their shares from Netflix. The founders of Netflix, led by Reed Hastings and pioneered by Marc Randolph, were in trouble.
Mar 12, 2018 · A flowering of human rights took place in many parts of the world over the next two decades or so; proxy wars were brought to an end in Central American, Southern Africa and South-East Asia; and the search for justice for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity became a growth industry.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
