APC statement to the First Substantive Session of the Open-ended Working...
APC welcomes this opportunity to address the OEWG and participate in this informal dialogue with stakeholders. APC and its members are increasingly concerned about state security-centric approaches to...
View ArticleNew global cybersecurity process begins: APC presents statement at UN Open...
Created in late 2018 by the UN General Assembly, the Open Ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security aims to broaden...
View ArticleCivil society statement to the UN General Assembly First Committee on...
The 14 civil society organisations supporting this statement, including APC, stress that cybersecurity includes the protection of human rights, and cybersecurity-related laws, policies and practices...
View ArticleAPC statement at the Intersessional Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group...
This statement focuses on responding to the question: How can non-governmental stakeholders contribute to the implementation of the voluntary non-binding norms of responsible state behaviour contained...
View ArticleAPC statement at the Intersessional Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group...
From APC’s perspective, we feel it’s important to integrate cybersecurity in our broader work on internet governance capacity building, because cybersecurity touches on so many other areas of internet...
View ArticleAPC statement at the UN Open-ended Working Group on International Cybersecurity
APC welcomes this opportunity to address the United Nations Open-ended Working Group and to participate in this informal dialogue with stakeholders. We urge a rights-based and inclusive approach to...
View ArticleJoint civil society feedback on the Open-ended Working Group on developments...
Global cyber governance, including the protection of a secure and stable cyberspace, cannot be limited to any one actor. Therefore, an inclusive approach to maintaining peace and stability in...
View ArticleA human-centric approach to international cybernorms: Civil society feedback...
Cybersecurity is a human rights issue. Human rights defenders, groups that are subject to discrimination, and journalists, among others, rely on the internet to exercise their rights. An open, secure,...
View ArticleLet’s talk cyber: Towards multistakeholder dialogue on cybersecurity
The informal multistakeholder virtual dialogue session taking place 25 February will create opportunities for dialogue between states and other stakeholders on the issues addressed by the UN General...
View ArticleAPC comments on the zero draft of the report of the UN Open-ended Working...
APC welcomes this opportunity to address comments to the zero draft of the United Nations Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of...
View ArticleJoint civil society feedback on first draft of the OEWG on ICTs report
In this response to the first substantive draft of the Open-ended Working Group on ICTs (OEWG) report, APC and other civil society organisations provide general feedback, focusing on the “introductory...
View ArticleAPC statement at the informal multistakeholder segment of the third session...
APC welcomes the opportunity to engage in this session. We appreciate Ambassador Lauber’s openness to civil society and the OEWG’s willingness to receive and consider comments by non-state actors.
View ArticleAPC comments on the final report of the OEWG on cybersecurity
After two years of negotiations, the UN Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security has adopted its final...
View ArticleJoint civil society statement on cyber peace and human security
Technology-facilitated violence must be understood in light of its impact on lives and livelihoods. Human security is at the heart of cyber security and therefore demands human-centric and rights-based...
View ArticlePromoting stakeholder engagement at the Open-Ended Working Group on ICTs
The aim of this brief is to support the implementation of the agreed language in the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) resolution pertaining to stakeholder engagement.
View ArticleMulti-stakeholder letter for OEWG Chair on modalities
A group of more than 140 members of the multistakeholder community have signed a letter addressed to Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Chair of the UN OEWG, about multistakeholder participation in the upcoming...
View ArticleAPC statement at the virtual, informal consultative discussion with the Chair...
In this statement, APC calls on the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) to recognise that existing and emerging cyber threats impact differently on groups subject to intersecting forms of discrimination,...
View ArticleAPC engages with Chair of Open-ended Working Group around the gendered...
Women and girls as well as people of diverse sexualities and gender expressions are more often the targets of online violence, and are increasingly targeted by disinformation campaigns, which can have...
View ArticleStatement to the OEWG on civil society contributions to ICT security and...
Civil society organisations have an important role in making sure that cyber capacity building is informed by human rights, following one of the capacity-building guiding principles in the previous...
View ArticleOEWG: APC stresses importance of a human rights-based and gender-sensitive...
These APC priorities were reiterated in a statement delivered at the informal dialogue with the Chair of the UN Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and...
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