Fireside Chat: Local-to-global efforts to flip the switch on internet shutdowns
Channel: Access Now
Date: 08/06/2022

Join Peggy Hicks and Berhan Taye in conversation with facilitator Felicia Anthonio for a fireside chat on Internet shutdowns. With the upcoming launch of the new OHCHR report on Internet shutdowns at the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council, they will discuss what the findings in the report would mean for users most at risk, and how activists can use the UN recommendations and leverage them at the grassroots level.

Speakers:
Berhan Taye, Senior Advisor, Internet Governance and Policy, Internews
Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures, and Right to Development Division, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Hosted by:
Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager, Access Now

Content note: The following video contains references to, and discussions around, violence, murder and war crimes.