Community Programme
Technology is increasingly being used by corporations and governments to violate human rights, including through amplifying oppression, enabling surveillance, spreading disinformation, and undermining democracy. Marginalised groups (people of colour, migrants, LGBTI people, children) bear the greatest harm, and existing laws fall short of adequate protection. Further, groups working on these issues are typically fragmented, under-resourced, and too often overwhelmed by corporate and state power.
We have designed our Community Programme to address these challenges by creating a better-connected, larger and more resilient Digital Rights Community.
Digital Rights Community
Anyone tackling human rights and environmental justice in online spaces.
Digital Justice
A society in which everyone uses technology justly and fairly so that all individuals and communities can fully enjoy their human rights in digital spaces.
Through standing together, we can ensure that there are better laws for protecting human rights online and stronger accountability for governments, Big Tech and other actors who violate these human rights. Stronger laws and better accountability means moving closer to our vision of digital justice.
Our Work
Our community work is organised around Hubs and resource development.
Our Hubs
Our Hubs bring together those working on legal actions to ensure strong human rights protection in online spaces to collaborate and share their knowledge. Our Hubs include:
- AI Hub
- Digital Democracy Hub
- Online Children Rights Hub (forthcoming)
- Online LGBTI Rights Hub (forthcoming)
Our Resources
We have developed a number of resources to support the Digital Rights Community to strive for better human rights protection in the online spaces.
Our Impact
400+
Organisations in our network
50+
Countries represented in our network
200+
Positive outcomes
Legal, policy, and social outcomes, including landmark court victories that have stopped discriminatory welfare systems, protected Uber drivers and Glovo riders, ended censorship by Facebook, and reduced government surveillance of citizens.
Justice
Better laws and stronger enforcement have delivered greater justice.
Robust Digital Rights Community
More resilient, larger and better connected Digital Rights Community
More Public Awareness
Wider public better informed on important human rights topics in online spaces
More Community-centred legal actions
which have brought about systemic change and advanced human rights in online spaces
Big Tech & Government Accountability
Big Tech, other corporates and multiple governments have been held accountable for their human rights violations in online spaces
Activists know how to access justice through improved knowledge of:
- Newer digital rights laws, such as EU AI Act
- Strategic litigation
- Evidence gathering
- Complaints to public authorities and regional human rights courts and bodies
- Advocacy and campaigning
- Strategic communications
- Community organising
Centring those most affected by digital harm
Our work centers the voices of those most impacted by digital harms including people of colour, migrants, LGBTI community members, children, marginalised genders, people with low incomes and platform and digital infrastructure workers.