Privacy International

By not mentioning or addressing the right to privacy during the UPR, the review of Egypt’s human rights situation will not include one of the most relevant and pressing issues facing Egyptians today.

Given the challenging UN-level negotiations on the right to privacy, Privacy International and others have urged member states to adopt principles already spelled out in the High Commissioner’s report, as they are based on existing jurisprudence of human rights bodies.

Jaafar Al Hasabi, Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali, and Saeed Al-Shehabi each fled Bahrain to be safe. They thought coming to the U.K., and living in exile, would at least mean they would be outside the reach of the Bahraini government. But they were wrong.

This week’s discussion of the report on surveillance by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council is a critical moment in the global understanding of the human rights challenges raised by unlawful and arbitrary surveillance.

Swiss authorities are investigating the potentially illegal export of mobile phone surveillance technology to an infamous elite unit of the Bangladeshi security apparatus accused of wide-scale human rights abuses.

We are living in a time of new surveillance capabilities. To best protect our threatened rights it is worthwhile to resist the allure of insufficient analogies, Privacy International notes.

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

For the first time, there is solid confirmation of Gamma International’s activities from inside the surveillance-industry giant’s own files, despite their denials, on their clients and support provided to a range of governments.