A call that never connected/ Mahtab Alinejad

It’s almost three in the morning. The cold light of a mobile phone illuminates the room, and the hands of a young girl in a European city restlessly glide across the screen. She dials her mother’s number for the umpteenth time. It beeps, then hangs up. Again. No messages are exchanged. The internet is down […]...

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Why is access to the internet considered a fundamental human right? / Morteza Hamounian

In early May, the government of Congo signed a contract worth 5.6 million dollars with the group “Mer”. Mer is an Israeli security consulting company with deep ties to Israeli intelligence services. Mer sells monitoring tools to foreign security forces and the result of its products is a large data analysis system called the Strategic […]...

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New mandate of the United Nations for governments: the right to access the internet/ Hossein Ahmadi Niazi

“متن راستچین” “Right-aligned text” Hossein Ahmadi Niaz Access to the internet is a right for citizens (humans) and facilitating access to it is considered a duty for governments. Based on this, the United Nations, by adopting a non-binding resolution for its members, considered the right to access and use the internet as a human right. […]...

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