About APC

APC. APC Annual Report 2016. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Briefing papers

Deborah Brown, Anriette Esterhuysen and Mallory Knodel. Briefing document: Cybersecurity policy and human rights. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Peter Jacob. Briefing paper: Desecrating expression. Islamabad: Bytes for All, Pakistan, 2017.

Contributions to other publications

Gayatri Khandhadai. National human rights institutions in digital spaces. Bangkok: Asia Centre, 2017.

IGF Best Practice Forum on Gender and Access. Gender and Access (2016): Overcoming barriers to enable women’s meaningful internet access. Geneva: Internet Governance Forum, 2017.

Issue papers

Applied Law & Technology Ltd. Perspectives on universal free access to online information in South Africa: Free public Wi-Fi and zero-rated content. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Zarizana Abdul Aziz. Due diligence and accountability for online violence against women. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami. A feminist action framework on development and digital technologies. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Anita Gurumurthy. A history of feminist engagement with development and digital technologies. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Research

Various authors. Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs). Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Various authors. Global Information Society Watch 2017 special edition – Internet governance from the edges: NRIs in their own words. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Various authors. Global Information Society Watch 2017 special edition – Unshackling expression: A study on laws criminalising expression online in Asia Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Mariana Palumbo and Delfina Schenone Sienra. EROTICS Global Survey 2017: Sexuality, rights and internet regulations. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Various authors. EROTICS South Asia exploratory research: Sex, rights and the internet. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

Derechos Digitales. Latin America in a Glimpse: Gender, feminism and the internet in Latin America. Santiago: Derechos Digitales.

Umer Ali and Harris Bin Munawar. Internet landscape of Pakistan 2017. Islamabad: Bytes for All, Pakistan.

Umer Gilani, Haroon Baloch, Shaheera Jalil Albasit and Furhan Hussain. Electronic data protection in Pakistan. Islamabad: Bytes for All, Pakistan.

Haroon Baloch, Maria Xynou and Arturo Filastò. Internet censorship in Pakistan: Findings from 2014-2017. Islamabad: Bytes for All, Pakistan, 2017.

Buddhadeb Halder. Privacy in India in the age of big data. New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation, 2017.

Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD). Promoting greater access to internet for female students of secondary schools. Kano: CITAD, 2017.

Various authors. State of the Internet in Asia: The case of India, Malaysia and Pakistan. Chennai: APC, 2017.

Ritu Srivastava. Shrinking spaces: Status of freedom of association and assembly in India. New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation.

Bijo P. Abraham. Trends in religion-based hate speech. New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation.

Gayathry Venkiteswaran. “Let the mob do the job”: How proponents of hatred are threatening freedom of expression and religion online in Asia. New Delhi: APC, 2017.

Ritu Srivastava and Bijo P. Abraham. Anatomy of virtual curfews: Human rights vs. national security. New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation, 2017.

Bytes for All, Pakistan. Shrinking Spaces: Online Freedom of Assembly and of Association in Pakistan. Islamabad: Bytes for All, Pakistan, 2017.

Y.Z. Ya’u and M.A. Aliyu. Internet for Men?: The Digital Marginalisation of Women in Northern NigeriaKano: Centre for Information Technology and Development, 2017.

Statements and submissions

APC. APC Priorities for the 12th Internet Governance Forum, Geneva, 2017.

APC. APC condemns restrictions on civil society at WTO summit, calls on Argentine government to facilitate NGO participation.

Just Net Coalition. A call for openness and transparency in rulemaking for the internet.

Various authors. Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017: Civil society messages.

APC. APC’s letter in support of human rights activist Chelsea Manning after she was turned away at the Canadian border.

Sultana Kamal (CSA) and Gayatri Khandhadai (APC). Bangladesh: Joint submission on freedom of speech, expression and thought under the Third Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review.

Various authors. Privacy rights under the lens: Stakeholders’ joint submission for Pakistan’s review under the third cycle of UPR 2017.

Various authors. Human rights review: An account of online and offline shrinking spaces in Pakistan.

Various authors. Joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review 2018 Cycle – Cameroon.

Various authors. Braamfontein communiqué on the role of national human rights institutions in protecting and promoting human rights online in Africa.

APC. APC calls for an end to restrictions on freedom of expression in Catalonia.

Various authors. Turkey: Secure digital communications are essential for human rights – Joint oral statement at the UN Human Rights Council 36th Session.

Various authors. Civil society organisations write to international bodies over internet shutdown in Togo.

APC. Contribution from the Association for Progressive Communications to the Review of the 2012 International Telecommunication Regulations.

Various authors. Joint CSO Statement on South Africa UPR Recommendations.

APC and IFEX. HRC 36: Secure digital communications in Turkey are essential for human rights.

APC and Foundation for Media Alternatives. Human rights in digital environments in the Philippines.

APC and supporting organisations. Universal Periodic Review: Criminalisation of Online Expression in Asia.

APC, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the Right2Know Campaign (R2K). Parallel Coalition Report and Submission on the List of issues to the 61st session of the Pre-Sessional Working Group of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

APC. Analytical summary of national responses to Special Rapporteur David Kaye’s report to the UN Human Rights Council 35th session.

Brazil Coalition on Network Rights. On the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil.

Various authors. Statement on Facebook’s internal guidelines for content moderation.

APC. APC submission to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) CWG-Internet consultation on public policy considerations for OTTs.

APC. APC statement at the WSIS Forum 2017 High-Level Policy Session.

APC. HRC 35: APC oral statement on bridging the gender digital divide.

Various authors. On the harm to our fundamental rights online under the extended state of emergency in Venezuela.

APC and supporting organisations. Joint written statement submitted by APC to the 35th session of the Human Rights Council: Criminalisation of online expression in Asia.

Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition. Women Human Rights Defenders condemn online threats against Bondita Acharya.

APC. APC statement in solidarity with Hungarian civil society and Central European University.

APC. APC condemns murder of Maldivian blogger and human rights activist Yameen Rasheed.

Social Media Exchange and APC. Submission from Social Media Exchange and the Association for Progressive Communications to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Lebanon.

Various authors. 18 NGOs file an intervention before France’s highest court on dangers of the “right to be forgotten”.

Various authors. Pakistan: Religious intolerance and impunity nurture killing field.

APC. APC statement on World Wide Web Consortium move towards standardising digital rights management.

APC. Bridging the gender digital divide from a human rights perspective: APC submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

APC. HRC 34: Oral statement delivered by APC during the Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children.

Deborah Brown (APC); Elena Goldstein and Peter Micek (Access Now). Internet rights at the Human Rights Council 34th session.

Various authors. Joint written statement submitted by APC to the 34th session of the Human Rights Council: Freedom of expression and religion in Asia.

APC, Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet and OpenNet Korea. Joint civil society submission to the CESCR: Briefing on copyright as a barrier to the exercise of cultural rights online in the Republic of Korea.

Various authors. Joint letter to the UN on social media and device collection at US borders.

APC. Written submission from APC in response to the Draft Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, South Africa.

APC. APC statement on the internet shutdown in Cameroon.

APC. APC input to the IGF stocktaking consultation – January 2017.

APC. APC input for the CSTD WSIS Progress Report 2016.

APC. Submission to the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation from the Association for Progressive Communications.

Toolkits and guides

Alma Ugarte Pérez, Hedme Sierra Castro and Indira Cornelio Vidal. Cyberwomen: A self-defense guide with gender perspective. Institute For War And Peace Reporting, 2017.

APC. The impact of the internet on human rights in Africa. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.

APC. Human rights and the internet: The key role of national human rights institutions in protecting human rights in the digital age. Johannesburg: APC, 2017.