· September, 2012

Stories about United Arab Emirates from September, 2012

Open Letter to Governments: Protect Human Rights at the ITU

  17 September 2012

This December in Dubai, the International Telecommunication Union—a UN agency—will decide whether it should have regulatory authority over the Internet. This move could pose grave risks to the exercise of human rights online. Civil society can influence the process by signing an open letter calling on governments to reject expansion of ITU regulatory authority to the Internet.