Author: Priya Alias New Delhi, India–The Internet Rights team—Niki Shah and Priya Elika Alias—participated in the Security, Governments, and Data: Technology and Policy conference jointly-organized by Observer Research Foundation and the Centre for Internet & Society. The conference focused on the technologies, policies, and practices around cyber security and surveillance. The conference was well attended…
New Delhi, India—Internet Rights team—Niki Shah and Priya Alika Elias—attended the roundtable discussion with Vint Cerf on “Future of the Internet” hosted by Observer Research Foundation. In his keynote lecture, Dr. Cerf traced the history of internet and how it got started in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the United States. Based on the historical…
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Union ministry of drinking water and sanitation to give a presentation on how to reduce fluoride content in potable water in 19 states across the country. The rights body initiated the step after taking suo motu cognisance of a media report that drinking water in 14,132…
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday condemned police abuse of migrants living in makeshift camps in France`s northern port city of Calais, from where they hope to cross to Britain. The organisation also slammed the slow response of the French government to the poor living conditions of the migrants, whose numbers have swelled to over 2,000…
US advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged China to revise draft legislation aimed at combating terrorism, saying it was little more than “a licence to commit human rights abuses”. The law, which was made public for consultation last November, would establish a new counter-terrorism body that would have the power to designate organisations…
US advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged China to revise draft legislation aimed at combating terrorism, saying it was little more than “a licence to commit human rights abuses”. The law, which was made public for consultation last November, would establish a new counter-terrorism body that would have the power to designate organisations…
Shin Dong-hyuk, whose testimony of his life in the North Korean prison camp became a major factor in United Nations condemnation of North Korea for human rights violations, has retracted many key parts of his story. Following the revelation that Dong-hyuk may have embellished the story of prison brutalities in North Korea, the country is…
Martin Luther King, Jr. is being remembered across the US and beyond at the moment. King Jr was not a king in conventional term. Nonetheless he was the king of millions and millions of hearts and continues to be close to many more people even now decades after his death. It is amazing to see…
FremantleMedia, one of the largest creators, producers and distributors of television brands in the world which is best known in India for producing international brands like Indian Idol and India’s Got Talent have now come up with a new reality show called India’s Digital Superstar. For the new show, FremantleMedia has partnered with ZengaTV, which is the largest mobile video…
Technology firm HP sees India as ‘a big focal point’ for its services as it senses enormous opportunity for technology here mainly because the country is heavily under-penetrated. The opportunity only grows with the government’s Rs.1 lakh crore Digital India project. “India has got a significant position in any IT company’s scheme of things. It…