The Year in Digital Rights 2021

The Year in Digital Rights 2021

The Digital Freedom Fund counted down to Human Rights Day 2021 with a blog series exploring ten of the year’s biggest digital rights stories. Read the full series below.

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When Tech Workers Rose Up and Unionised

In January 2021, after years of activism, Google workers unionised. The launch of the Alphabet Workers Union marked the start of a year characterised by tech workers rising up, banding together and calling out structural inequalities

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The #AbolishFrontex Movement Grows

2021 saw the rise of the #AbolishFrontex movement, an international campaign demanding the shutdown of Frontex, the infamous European border agency accused of persistently violating the human rights of people on the move. Activists claim that

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