Community Programme

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. 

 
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Digital Rights Community

Anyone tackling human rights and environmental justice in online spaces.

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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:

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  • 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

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.