Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 30, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Right2Know together with Privacy International and the Association of Progressive Communicators submitted suggestions for right to privacy-related questions to be included in the list of issues on South Africa, Human Rights Committee, 114th session, June-July...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 29, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K and ODAC were disappointed to learn of the judgment handed down in the Western Cape High Court yesterday in relation to our challenge of the Parliament’s broadcasting policy and the use of signal...
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / R2K Events / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 25, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Thursday, 28 May, the Film and Publications Board (FPB) will hold a public hearing on their latest draft regulations. The Board is attempting to give itself sweeping powers to police what we see,...
Campaign Updates / Internet Freedom / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 15, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know Campaign notes with concern that under the guise of providing free internet to those who don’t have it, Facebook Inc. is luring them into a highly controlled and insecure online environment, thereby...
Campaign Updates / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Secrecy Bill
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published May 12, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
R2K is dismayed at reported comments of the Minister of State Security, praising the ‘Secrecy Bill’ and recommitting government to its anti-democratic provisions. City Press quotes the Minister as saying, “I know that when...
Campaign Updates / R2K in the News / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 29, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Yesterday R2K launched Big Brother Exposed – stories of activists who have been spied on and harassed by state intelligence. Below is a summary of news coverage. Download the report here. Watch footage of...
Campaign Updates / popular education / Publications / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 28, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Today R2K launches Big Brother Exposed, a report that documents the stories of activists and community leaders who have been monitored and harassed by South Africa’s intelligence agencies, or people claiming to represent them....
Campaign Updates / Freedom Week / InfoAccessNow / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate / Right to Protest / Security State & Intelligence
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
The Right2Know campaign will again mark “Freedom Week” – 27 April (Freedom Day), 1 May (Worker’s Day) and 3 May (World Press Freedom Day) – in recognition of the democratic struggles and victories that...
Campaign Updates / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
In the next few months South Africa will be changing its ordinary (or “free-to-air”) TV broadcasts to a new digital broadcast system. Decisions taken now will determine the future of television in South Africa....
Campaign Updates / Gauteng / Internet Freedom / Media Freedom / Right to Communicate
by The Right2Know Campaign · Published April 24, 2015 · Last modified April 8, 2019
On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 the Right2Know Campaign Gauteng will be protesting outside the Film & Publications Board offices at 420 Witch Hazel Avenue, ECO Park in Centurion from 11:00AM – 13:00PM. The Right2Know...
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