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Out in Perth: New database tracks global progress and decline on LGBTI+ rights

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Out in Perth: New database tracks global progress and decline on LGBTI+ rights. “The ILGA World Database, a platform launched by ILGA World compiling laws, news, and references to human rights bodies and advocacy opportunities with the United Nations related to LGBTI+ people worldwide. The free, interactive, and collaborative platform gives details insights on the state of laws and proposed legislation concerning sexuality, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics issues in 193 UN member States and 47 non-independent territories.”

Reuters: Civil rights audit at Google proposes better tackling of hate speech, misinformation

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Reuters: Civil rights audit at Google proposes better tackling of hate speech, misinformation. “Google on Friday released an audit that examined how its policies and services impacted civil rights, and recommended the tech giant take steps to tackle misinformation and hate speech, following pressure by advocates to hold such a review.”

LAist: Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams Has Donated Her Archival Collection To Pomona College

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LAist: Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams Has Donated Her Archival Collection To Pomona College. “Myrlie Evers-Williams, a leader of the civil rights movement, has donated her archival collection to Pomona College, where she received her degree in sociology in 1968. Evers-Williams, 89, became known nationally following the 1963 assassination of her husband, NAACP official Medgar Evers, in the driveway of their Mississippi home.”

Haverford College: The Early Days of Women’s Suffrage, Archived

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Haverford College: The Early Days of Women’s Suffrage, Archived. “The College’s Julia Wilbur collection is composed primarily of her personal journals from 1844 to 1895. The materials were digitized as part of the In Her Own Right project, which contains items that illuminate the efforts of women to assert their rights and work for the rights of others in the century leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The project was organized by the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) and contains materials from at least 12 institutions.”

The Conversation: How Gen Z is using social media in Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement

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The Conversation: How Gen Z is using social media in Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement. “In the first three months of the protests, demonstrations have taken place in almost all of Iran’s 31 provinces. People in 160 cities and 143 universities have taken part in demonstrations against the mandatory hijab laws. Many Iranians living abroad have also taken part in protests. These protests are part of a long history of women’s rights movements in Iran. But what makes this movement different is how young women are tapping into social media to elevate their own agency and challenge the country’s patriarchal laws.”

University of Rhode Island: URI research team launches world’s largest global human rights dataset

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University of Rhode Island: URI research team launches world’s largest global human rights dataset. “A team of researchers based at the University of Rhode Island and Binghamton University has launched the world’s largest quantitative dataset on global human rights. The dataset, called CIRIGHTS, provides numerical measures for the extent to which every nation on Earth respects 72 internationally recognized human rights.”

University of Southern California: What makes a movement go viral? Social media, social justice coalesce under #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd

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University of Southern California: What makes a movement go viral? Social media, social justice coalesce under #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd. “The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, demonstrates how images and videos on social media amplify conversations around civil rights and shape large-scale movements like the Black Lives Matter marches and demonstrations that occurred after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.”

RTL Today: ‘Myrights.lu’ to help people in matters of civic rights

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RTL Today (Luxembourg): ‘Myrights.lu’ to help people in matters of civic rights. “The new website on civic rights, called myrights.lu, now unites close to 100 contact points relating to issues of housing, employment, asylum, and healthcare in the Grand Duchy. The site outlines around 140 individual topics and is available in five languages, including French, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Portuguese.”

Reuters: ‘Toxic Twitter’ activists ramp up pressure on brands after Trump account reinstated

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Reuters: ‘Toxic Twitter’ activists ramp up pressure on brands after Trump account reinstated. “A coalition of civil rights activists on Monday were urging Twitter’s advertisers to issue statements about pulling their ads off the social media platform after its owner Elon Musk lifted the ban on tweets by former U.S. President Donald Trump.”

Village Preservation: Civil Rights and Social Justice Map Revised and Relaunched

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Village Preservation: Civil Rights and Social Justice Map Revised and Relaunched. “Village Preservation’s acclaimed Civil Rights and Social Justice Map has been revised and relaunched. Containing hundreds of sites connected to civil rights history found in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, we’ve streamlined the format, added images and entries, and made it easier and more engaging than ever to learn how the course of history changed and the cause of social justice advanced in our neighborhoods.”

Human Rights Watch: US Launches Promising Human Rights Reporting Tool

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Human Rights Watch: US Launches Promising Human Rights Reporting Tool. “On September 30, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor launched a new reporting tool, the Human Rights Reporting Gateway, that gives the public a way to alert the US government of gross violations of human rights. The State Department hopes the information uploaded will help its staffers determine which foreign security forces should not receive US assistance.”

Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in Ethiopia (Context)

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Context: Six million silenced: A two-year internet outage in Ethiopia. “As fighting rages on in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, one of the world’s longest telecommunications shutdowns is hampering aid deliveries, hurting business and keeping families apart.”

University of Utah: Celebrating the launch of the France Davis Utah Black Archive

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University of Utah: Celebrating the launch of the France Davis Utah Black Archive. “This man marched at Selma. He served as Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church for 45 years. He witnessed crosses being burned on the lawn of his church. He survived a life-changing, devastating burn on 30 percent of his body. And for decades he taught at the University of Utah, the institution that donned him with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1993. So it is only fitting that the J. Willard Marriott Library create a digital archive in the name of Reverend France Davis, retired pastor, father, husband, community leader, civil rights leader, educator.”

Washington College: New social media guidelines are hindering student voices

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Washington College: New social media guidelines are hindering student voices. “Students should have the right to post the school as they see fit. While some comments may reflect negatively on WC, they should be used as a basis for change. The voice of student life should be uplifted and heard instead of silenced in shame. The new social media guidelines are intended to stop harassment in its tracks and maintain a good image for the College, but students should be allowed to have fun with each other and make comments about their school.”

Erasing 76 Crimes: Activists launch website to document trans and intersex African history

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Erasing 76 Crimes: Activists launch website to document trans and intersex African history. “A group of activists has launched an initiative to document and preserve the history of trans and intersex Africans and their struggle for equal rights. The web site Trans and Intersex History Africa is a labor of love for the four principal curators, who come from South Africa and Uganda.”