Populations on the Front Lines - Voices from Ukraine, Uganda, and Turkey
Channel: Access Now
Date: 18/03/2014

Ronaldo Lemos, CTS-FGV (Moderator)

Richard Lusimbo, Sexual Minorities Researcher from Uganda; Oksana Romaniuk, Executive Director of NGO Institute of Mass Information and Representative of Reporters Without Borders, Ukraine; Burak Arikan, Alternative Informatics,  Turkey; and Andres Azpurua, Director of VE Inteligente, Venezuela

Each of the panelists have come to RightsCon with a story to tell focusing on their individual experiences. Oksana Romaniuk from Ukraine has will talk about her experiences defending against cyber attacks using social media and "throwing away the dictator." Richard Lusimbo has come to RightsCon from Uganda, where the government has recently passed a draconian anti-gay bill. PUblications there have outed over 200 people using traditional and social media, placing him and his community at risk; Burak Arikan from Turkey is here to discuss the new internet law recently passed which has given his government unilateral authority to surveil the networks and censor content.