🇷🇺 Russia is ramping up attacks on encryption - blocking apps like Signal & WhatsApp while forcing users onto state-run platforms. A global coalition, led by GNI & @cdt.org, condemns this move toward digital authoritarianism. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-cdt-...

🇱🇰 GNI has submitted recommendations to Sri Lanka’s Committee to Amend the Online Safety Act. We remain deeply concerned about its threats to free expression & privacy, & urge that it be replaced in favor of a new, rights-respecting process. 🔗 Read more: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-urges-hu...

🇳🇵 GNI strongly condemns the recent violence in Nepal and urges the government to continue de-escalating the situation following its decision to lift the ban on social media services. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-statemen...

🇬🇧 GNI has submitted evidence to the UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee on regulating AI. We call for a rights-based approach to AI governance—anchored in international law, grounded in transparency & accountability. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-submissi...

📬 Our Q2–Q3 2025 newsletter is live! Dive into highlights from GNI’s 2024 Annual Report, a brand-new Stakeholder Engagement Service, global policy wins, and the newest voices joining our network. 📖 Read it here: mailchi.mp/globalnetwor...

On June 24, on the sidelines of #IGF2025 in Oslo, GNI & the Swedish Council on Ethics hosted a high-level dialogue with civil society, investors & the UN B-Tech Project on the role of investors in tech governance. Read the takeaways: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-swed...

🌍 The Global Network Initiative’s 2024 Annual Report is out! Forging Relationships, Evolving Together captures a year of expansion, innovation & global collaboration for digital rights. 📎 Read the full report: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-releases...

🇲🇽 (Spanish below) Mexico has passed sweeping surveillance laws: biometric IDs; centralized data systems; military surveillance without warrants. GNI calls for urgent reconsideration to protect privacy & free expression. globalnetworkinitiative.org/expanding-st...

🔎 GNI’s new learning series explores how human rights due diligence applies to community moderation models amid rising regulation and AI challenges. Read more: globalnetworkinitiative.org/exploring-hu...

📣 GNI is pleased to welcome @sanjanah.bsky.social to our Academic Constituency, in addition to @ooni.org and Factum, who join our growing NGO Constituency. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-welcomes...

🔧 Technical standards aren’t neutral—they shape our digital future. On 8 July, GNI and the OHCHR convened diverse voices to explore integrating human rights into standard-setting. Read the workshop summary: globalnetworkinitiative.org/summary-repo...

If you have concerns about the UK Online Safety Act, you may also want to understand the substantial concerns that we are raising about Sri Lanka's OSA. Check out @thegni.bsky.social's recommendations to learn more!

🌐 Want to understand how countries are prioritizing key issues ahead of WSIS+20? GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have published a new summary infographic offering a quick visual guide to where countries stand on key WSIS+20 issues. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-gpd-...

🚨Sri Lanka is revisiting its Online Safety Act! GNI has shared recommendations to help align the law with international human rights standards with a focus on free expression, privacy, and independent oversight. More here: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-urges-hu... #SriLanka #FreeExpression

🚨Sri Lanka is revisiting its Online Safety Act! GNI has shared recommendations to help align the law with international human rights standards with a focus on free expression, privacy, and independent oversight. More here: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-urges-hu... #SriLanka #FreeExpression

GNI’s submission to the #WSISplus20 Elements Paper calls for strong human rights commitments, renewed IGF support, and multistakeholder Internet governance rooted in equity and inclusion. Read more: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-input-to... #DigitalRights #InternetGovernance #WSIS20 #TechPolicy

🌐 GNI, @gpdigital.bsky.social and country partners from Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ghana, India, South Africa, Tanzania & Zambia contributed to the WSIS+20 Review Elements Paper consultation: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-gpd-and-...

How do we ensure that multistakeholder Internet governance stays inclusive, rights-based, and relevant? At IGF 2025, GNI dug into that question — from WSIS+20 to AI, cybersecurity, and business responsibility in fragile contexts. globalnetworkinitiative.org/rebalancing-...

🗓️ July 23 | Exploring DSA Risk Management At TrustCon, GNI & @oversightboard.bsky.social are hosting a roundtable on how risk assessments under the #DSA can uphold rights while addressing harms. Insights from our EU Rights & Risks Forum + Oversight Board’s work on VLOPs. 🔗 shorturl.at/vx4VV

Just out: GNI & @dtspartnership.bsky.social's 2025 summary of the European Rights & Risks Forum Key takeaways: - Design matters - Data is still missing - Rights must lead - Engagement can improve Report link: globalnetworkinitiative.org/new-report-2...

Can online safety governance frameworks respect human rights? At our Brussels regulator's event, GNI, @dtspartnership.bsky.social along with 75+ participants explored what it takes, across the UK’s Online Safety Act, EU’s Digital Services Act & beyond! lnkd.in/eMHPJ2Vq #TechPolicy #HumanRights

🌐 GNI is at the #WSIS20 HLE in Geneva! Join us on: 📌 July 8: Private Sector + Standard-Setting (with the OHCHR) 📌 July 10: From Principles to Practice (with @gpdigital.bsky.social ) 📌July 10: GNI's Elonnai Hickok speaking on AI & Gender Gaps globalnetworkinitiative.org/global-netwo...

🚨 New Statement from GNI: Zambia’s newly enacted Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Acts of 2025 pose serious threats to digital rights. GNI urges reform to protect #FreeExpression & #Privacy. Read more: globalnetworkinitiative.org?p=17536&prev... #Zambia #CyberSecurity #CyberCrime #surveillance

🚨 GNI is deeply concerned about the network disruptions in Iran and calls on the Iranian government to restore full connectivity and uphold their obligations under international law. Read our full statement: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-statemen...

📣 New report by GNI and Global Partners Digital: The Road to WSIS+20 Featuring country insights from Africa, Asia, Europe & the Americas, it is designed to help governments and stakeholders prepare for the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society. Read more: shorturl.at/1t8Ex

🌍 GNI is strengthening digital rights in Africa—working with partners in East, West & Southern Africa to build multistakeholder collaboration. From DRIF in Lusaka to FIFAfrica in Dar & Dakar, we’re advancing accountability, transparency & inclusion. 🔗 globalnetworkinitiative.org/supporting-m...

🌐 The future of digital governance is being shaped — and Africa has a critical role to play. In a new blog, GNI's Elonnai Hickok, @apc.org's Anriette Esterhuysen, and CIPESA's Lillian Nalwoga explore how Africa can lead in the WSIS+20 review. globalnetworkinitiative.org/the-opportun...

🚨 GNI is heading to #IGF2025 in Lillestrøm, Norway from June 23–27! We're hosting and participating in sessions on platform accountability, transparency, digital safety & rights online, bringing a multi-stakeholder voice to the global governance stage. 🔗 globalnetworkinitiative.org/global-netwo...

🌍 GNI has submitted our input for #WSIS20 - reaffirming the need for a people-centered, rights-based digital future. We call for: ✅ Multistakeholder governance ✅ Rights-based approach to AI governance ✅ Rights-respecting DPI ✅ Stronger civic space globalnetworkinitiative.org/gnis-interve...

On June 3 in Brussels, GNI & @dtspartnership.bsky.social hosted a multistakeholder dialogue on rights-respecting digital regulation, followed by the third annual European Rights & Risks Forum. Thank you to everyone who helped make these events possible. globalnetworkinitiative.org/centering-th...

GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have launched a new project to support civil society engagement in the WSIS+20 Review. Funded by the ICANN Grant Program, the initiative brings multistakeholder dialogue to the forefront of global digital governance. globalnetworkinitiative.org/shaping-wsis...

GNI is pleased to welcome Shreya Tewari as Policy and Communications Lead. In this role, Tewari will guide GNI’s efforts in key policy areas and oversee GNI’s communications strategy across multiple platforms and initiatives. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-welcomes...

📢 GNI, alongside 113 organizations and 57 individual experts, endorses the WSIS+20 Five-Point Plan Follow-up: Eight Practical Recommendations to support transparency, inclusivity, and meaningful stakeholder engagement in the WSIS+20 review process: www.gp-digital.org/wsis20-five-...

GNI Executive Director Jason Pielemeier will speak at the AI & Human Rights 101 panel tomorrow, 13 May at 9AM ET, organized by the UN Global Compact and the B-Tech team at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

📢 GNI is pleased to announce that L’École Supérieure de Journalisme, des Métiers de l’Internet et de la Communication (E-jicom) has joined GNI’s Academic constituency as member. Read the full announcement: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-welcomes...

🌍 GNI's Country Legal Frameworks Resource has three new country profiles: Peru, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. The reports were compiled with support from Hiperderecho, Paradigm Initiative, and Charles Kajoloweka, Executive Director of Youth and Society, Malawi. globalnetworkinitiative.org/new-country-...

📨 Check your inboxes for GNI's newsletter "Safeguarding Rights in Unstable Times" for updates on our AI related work, policy advocacy in Asia, new members & more. 🔔 Get up-to-speed on all the exciting & incredible work that GNI members are doing from the Members Bulletin Board! shorturl.at/iz5Bp

🔴 Read our latest Confluence blog post "Data localization: A Global Threat to Human Rights Online" by Freedom House's Community Engagement Specialist Maddie Masinsin and GNI Senior Fellow Ramsha Jahangir. globalnetworkinitiative.org/data-localiz...

GNI and the Trust and Safety Foundation's #RightsCon2025 session brought together T&S professionals and CSOs in and from the Global Majority to advance digital rights globally. The meeting report is now available to read on our website: globalnetworkinitiative.org/rightscon-se...

🌐 GNI participated in the Open Consultation Process for the WSIS+20 High Level Event 2025 where we emphasized the need for transparent, accountable, & meaningful multistakeholder consultation, with particular attention to Global Majority participation. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-input-on...

GNI, alongside 101 civil society organizations and 46 experts, endorses the Five Point Plan to help operationalize the WSIS+20 review modalities to ensure transparency, inclusivity, and meaningful stakeholder engagement. Learn more: www.gp-digital.org/five-point-p...

🇹🇼 On 13 March, GNI wrote to the Vice Premier of the Government of #Taiwan to express concerns about the proposed amendments to the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act. Read the full letter: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-letter-t...

At this difficult, yet critical, time for the human rights and tech community globally, GNI appreciated the space to be in community and collaborate at hashtag #RightsCon2025 at a key moment for the sector. globalnetworkinitiative.org/looking-back...

📢 GNI is pleased to welcome Dr. Rafael Zanatta, Director of non-profit organization Data Privacy Brasil, to our Board of Directors as a non-voting representative of our civil society constituency. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-welcomes...

Read our latest Confluence blog post, where @sanjanah.bsky.social applies GNI's Content Regulation & Human Rights Policy Brief as a framework to make recommendations for Sri Lanka's OSA to become a more effective & rights-respecting law. globalnetworkinitiative.org/sri-lankas-o...

🔶 Last October, GNI and the Trust and Safety Foundation hosted a virtual workshop on "Engaging Trust & Safety and Human Rights Practitioners on Rights-Respecting Responses to Government Demands." The high-level summary report summarizes key takeaways. globalnetworkinitiative.org/workshop-rep...

As #RightsCon2025 kicks off in Taipei, GNI is gearing up for a series of rich engagements related to intermediary liability, trust and safety, business and human rights, and more, during and at the sidelines of RightsCon. Come say hello! rightscon.org

One year ago, GNI lamented the potential for abuse of the proposed amendments to the #UK Investigatory Powers Act. It appears that those concerns have proven prescient. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... (1/2)

🇧🇩 GNI calls on the Interim Government of #Bangladesh to adopt a rigorous, transparent, forward-looking, and rights-based approach to reform initiatives, engaging with and taking into account expert, multistakeholder input. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-statemen...

🔔 New blog post: This is the fifth in a series that explores the rationale behind adaptations to GNI's fifth assessment cycle, covering how they improve alignment between GNI’s assessment process and the aforementioned developments. globalnetworkinitiative.org/enhancing-pa...