| | Last month, the Indian government announced a third-party security audit of Diksha, the educational app it owns and uses to provide online education to students in grades 1 to 12. The government also committed to better protect the data privacy of children and teachers using its app. The news comes after Human Rights Watch reported in January that the app had, for over a year, exposed the personal data of millions of students and teachers. The unprotected records included children’s names, schools, the state, district, and block where they live, test scores, and partially redacted phone numbers and email addresses. Human Rights Watch also documented how the app had the capability to collect children’s precise location data, and that it transmitted their data to a third-party company using a tracker designed for advertising. | |
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| Bill Van Esveld began working on children’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa in 2015. For the previous six years he focused on Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
As the Arthur Helton research fellow at Human Rights Watch in 2007-08, he wrote or contributed to reports on Western Sahara and Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria, asylum seekers in Egypt and Israel, and migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Van Esveld helped report on Iraq for the International Center for Transitional Justice, and on human rights developments in the UN General Assembly for the International Service for Human Rights. |
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 | | | Last week, Ugandan lawmakers approved new legislation that entrenches the criminalization of same-sex conduct. It also creates new offenses that will curtail any activism on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues and eradicate LGBT people from any form of social engagement in Uganda. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has 30 days to assent or reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. | |
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 | | | Saudi authorities executed Hussein Abu al-Khair, a Jordanian citizen, on March 12, 2023, after his conviction for a nonviolent drug crime, Human Rights Watch said earlier this month. The judge ignored his allegations that he had confessed only after days of torture and ill-treatment. | |
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 | | | FIFA should commit to using the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Legacy Fund to compensate migrant workers and their families for serious abuses related to the 2022 World Cup, Human Rights Watch said earlier this month. FIFA is holding its 73rd Congress on March 16, 2023, in Kigali, Rwanda. New Human Rights Watch research found persistent gaps in Qatar’s labor protections, which failed to protect workers before, during, and after the 2022 World Cup. | |
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 | | | The war in Ukraine has had devastating consequences for children in residential institutions, Human Rights Watch said in a report released earlier this month. Children have been forcibly transferred to Russia and separated from their families, and have suffered traumatic experiences of war and displacement. | |
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| | | Last week we hosted a Twitter Space on the Ukraine-ICC arrest warrants with an outstanding panel of women. View the recording by clicking this link. | |
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| | | The 127-page report, “‘Cut Off from Life Itself’: Lebanon’s Failure on the Right to Electricity,” argues that electricity is fundamental to nearly every aspect of living and participating in present-day societies, and as such, the internationally protected right to an adequate standard of living includes the right of everyone, without discrimination, to sufficient, reliable, safe, clean, accessible, and affordable electricity. At present, the government provides electricity for only one to three hours a day on average, while people who can afford it supplement that supply with private generators. The public sector and private generator industry rely on polluting climate-intensive fossil fuels. The electricity crisis has exacerbated inequality in the country, severely limited people’s ability to realize their most basic rights, and pushed them further into poverty. | |
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