International
Digital
Rights
Days
10th & 11th of December 2024
Celebrate Human Rights in the digital age with us
What are the International Digital Rights Days?
A global celebration of digital rights and their defenders.
Dozens of activities, campaigns and events in cities around the world.
The affirmation of a shared commitment to defend human rights in the digital age.
What are Digital Rights?
Digital rights are human rights. In a society increasingly shaped by the digital world, it is essential to emphasize the importance of everyone’s right to access, use, and create digital technologies and content. These rights encompass the protection of privacy, freedom of expression, and the right to access information online. They ensure that individuals can engage with digital platforms, participate in online communities, and share content freely and safely, without facing undue censorship, surveillance, or discrimination.
Digital rights also encompass issues such as data protection, net neutrality, and the right to be forgotten, ensuring that digital environments remain open, inclusive, and respectful of individuals’ rights and freedoms.
Why are
Digital Rights important?
Digital rights are crucial for several reasons:
Freedom of Expression
They protect individuals' ability to express themselves freely online without fear of censorship or reprisal.
Privacy Protection
Digital rights safeguard personal data and communications, preventing unauthorized access and misuse by governments, corporations, or malicious entities.
Access to Information
They ensure that people can access a wide range of information and knowledge, fostering education and informed decision-making. They are a basis to provide qualitative information and fight against all kind of disinformation.
Equality and Inclusion
Digital rights help bridge the digital divide, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of socioeconomic status, have access to digital technologies and the internet.
Non-discrimination
They enhance the protection of marginalised groups from data profiling, unwarranted policing, biased technologies and online violations of human rights.
Security
Digital rights promote a safer online environment by enforcing laws and standards that protect users from cyber threats, harassment, and exploitation.
Democracy and Participation
Lorem ipsum dolor sit alor amet, cotns ekolor adipiscing elit Nulla molestie convallis convallis.They ensure that people can participate to online democratic processes and have a say in the digital transformation currently at work all over the world.
why JOIN US?
YOU HAVE
An activity on the 10th and/or the 11th of December regarding Digital Rights.
YOU ARE
An association, company or individual who recognise itself in the objectives and principles of CC4DR.
What are the benefits?
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Share your activity on the website’s interactive map.
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Access our communication toolbox that you can use to promote your event and be part of a global movement for digital rights!
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You want to organise something but you don’t know what yet? Check out our toolbox to get some inspiration.
This is an initiative of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights
What is the Coalition for Digital Rights?
The Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, launched in November 2018 and now with a membership of over 60 cities worldwide, is a network of cities helping each other in the greenfield of digital rights based policy-making. The Coalition is committed to promoting and defending digital rights in urban context through city action, to resolve common digital challenges and work towards legal, ethical and operational frameworks to advance human rights in digital environments.
Learn more about it here:
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