Dear digital rights and open knowledge aficionados,
This is the final email of 2022 that you'll receive via this mailing list from the WMF Global Advocacy team!
We have two special final reads for you: our "Don't Blink" monthly retrospective for November and a reflection on our human rights-related work over the past year. We'll add a few special extra reads at the bottom of this email too, in case you want to indulge over the holiday season. - - - - To mark Human Rights Day this year, we have shared what we’ve been doing over the past year to protect hundreds of thousands of Wikimedians and billions of readers from these threats. Personal stories from Wikimedians in Belarus and Ukraine bring the importance of this work to life. Take a look at our blog post [1].
Our November "Don't Blink" is now available [2]. The blog post covers the actions we’ve taken this past month to advance fundamental rights online. Highlights include: * Five conferences that our team attended, spanning five countries and three community-organized events. * Participation in UNESCO consultation on the draft of a model regulatory framework for platforms. * The Foundation filed comments in response to the Privacy Civil Liberties Oversight Board's reexamination of a crucial law on which the US Government bases parts of its surveillance activities. - - - - Some of our team's top-selections of writing and action over the past year: * Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team [3] * WMF Earns Accreditation to the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Council [4] * How Wikimedia and partner orgz helped ensure US companies support access to free knowledge for the Russian people [5]
We hope you enjoy the reads!
Ziski & The Global Advocacy Team ______ [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/20/celebrating-human-rights-day-2022-with... [2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/16/dont-blink-public-policy-snapshot-for-... [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/26/meet-the-wikimedia-foundation-global-a... [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/07/22/wikimedia-foundation-earns-a... [5] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/how-wikimedia-and-partner-organization...