Deborah Brown

deputy director for tech & human rights @HRW formerly @apc_news @accessnow on bluesky

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I join other UN experts in urging Egypt to release activist & blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah from arbitrary detention under repressive security laws

[Yasmine Ahmed @YasmineAhmed001]

Dr Laila Soueif, mother of @FreedomForAlaa was urgently hospitalised at St Thomas' hospital in London yday morning on day 149 of her hunger strike

She is now at imminent risk of death

I @hrw spent time with her in hospital yday & 2day

Although weak she remains resolute 🧵

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Starting now. Please join us at #RightsCon in Taipei and online👇

[7amleh حملة @7amleh]

📢 #ReconnectGaza Campaign Launch at @rightscon 2025-Hybrid Event
Be part of the global launch of #ReconnectGaza, a campaign to rebuild Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure and ensure connectivity as a fundamental human right.
🗓 Date: Feb 26, 2:00 - 3:45 Taipei Time
📍 Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel – Residence 2, Lobby Floor (Just a 5-minute walk from the RightsCon venue)
🔹Campaign presentation by 7amleh's @NadimNashif and Jalal Abukhater @JalalAK_jojo
🔹Expert panel discussion on: Connectivity as a Lifeline: Restoring Human Rights Through Telecommunications
🎤 Moderator: Eric Sype (7amleh)
🎤 Panelists:
✨ Marwa Fatafta (@accessnow) @marwasf
✨ Hanna Kreitem (@internetsociety)
✨ Deborah Brown (@hrw) @deblebrown
💻 Join Online: https://t.co/b3Lw9Zp3um
🔗 For more on our events at RightsCon, visit: https://t.co/rWewz2a7sc

[louis charbonneau @loucharbon]

New from @hrw: UN Censors Criticism of #SaudiArabia at Internet Conference

@deblebrown: UN should "put an end to a climate of intimidation & censorship toward diplomats, journalists, human rights advocates & other civil society reps at UN conferences." https://t.co/J313njrHMa

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

I've attended my fair share of IGFs, incl. in places where participants were under surveillance, materials confiscated, and protesters reprimanded. But I've never experienced anything like this. 👇

[Joey Shea @joey_shea]

🚩NEW: At the IGF in Riyadh, the UN censored criticism of Saudi Arabia by @LinaAlhathloul, threatened to revoke my badge & confiscated materials highlighting cases of human rights defenders ⬇️

https://t.co/t3g1CzKUyl

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Last day to apply👇🏻

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Not on this app much anymore, but this opportunity is too good to not share.

@hrw is recruiting a senior researcher on tech & human rights. plenty of room to shape the role.

Deadline Jan 5

https://t.co/lRvMhuR4eo

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Expertise in internet infrastructure, platform accountability, commercial data exploitation, or labor rights is desirable.

Best part is you'd be joining a stellar team including @a_bacci @notzachcampbell @samdubberley

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Not on this app much anymore, but this opportunity is too good to not share.

@hrw is recruiting a senior researcher on tech & human rights. plenty of room to shape the role.

Deadline Jan 5

https://t.co/lRvMhuR4eo

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

The position may be based in NY, DC, Sao Paulo, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Amman, Nairobi, or Johannesburg. Fully remote is also possible.

Candidates from/with experience working in the global majority are strongly encouraged to apply.

[SMEX @SMEX]

#Lebanon: Not only is the Israeli occupation causing physical destruction and arbitrary damage, but it is still weaponizing communications technology to terrorize people under bombardment. (1/7) 🧵

https://t.co/S7LQpT7C8j

[Aya Majzoub @Aya_Majzoub]

🚩New @amnesty research found that evacuation warnings issued by the #Israel military to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut & south Lebanon were inadequate, and in some cases also misleading. 🧵
https://t.co/2Ggvh4RFLq

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

Access to X was restored in Brazil today after being blocked for 5+ weeks due to a standoff between M*sk & Justice Moraes

@_Cesar_Munoz & I argue this case is a cautionary tale and platforms & authorities need to do a lot more to center human rights @hrw

https://t.co/7vgm4HP5xe

[César Muñoz @_Cesar_Munoz]

Brazilians regained access to X today after +5 weeks of shutdown.
The case highlights how easily people’s rights can be shoved aside. Whether rights are protected shouldn´t depend on the whims of corporations and authorities.

Piece by @deblebrown and me:
https://t.co/nvnlGZ3k80

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

What a profound moral rot one must have to look at images from Beirut & images of shredded children from Gaza and still think your ‘civilization’, your ‘democratic institutions’ & your way of life are somehow superior, worth something.

[Deborah Brown @deblebrown]

"Authorities have already robbed Abdel Fattah of a decade of his life. Adding another two years to his sentence is unspeakably cruel. They should release him without further delay." @Bassam_Khawaja @hrw #FreeAlaa

https://t.co/v2WagnqEZt

[Maria Abi-Habib @Abihabib]

Lebanon is such a small country.

When I tell people “my parents are safe, our village isn’t being targeted” what is left unsaid is that they live a 10-20 min drive from the neighborhoods Israel is striking. If you’re not a victim, you’re witnessing the tragedy in realtime

[Sharif Abdel Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

Amid everything in the world, Egypt is keeping @alaa imprisoned beyond his already draconian 5-year sentence. His reaction from prison today:

https://t.co/bBw3dBQHef

#FreeAlaa

[Nabih @nabihbulos]

Hundreds of people spent the night on the streets of downtown #Beirut after fleeing relentless #Israel-i bombing on the Dahieh.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Biden calls massive bombs in a densely-populated area that leveled six apartment buildings in Lebanon “a measure of justice.”

The torching of international law and the precedent that is being set should terrify us all.