Dear all,

RightsCon 2025 is just around the corner. Registration has opened - this will be a hybrid conference with excellent discussions that cover topics at the forefront of digital rights. Those include five Wikimedia sessions.

If you are planning on joining online but have concerns about your internet access, I highly recommend you apply for the RightsCon Connectivity Support https://act.accessnow.org/page/email/click/1921/7505962?email=Y1M0ZDgEKui5kOv3xZ%2FIDNVzXecZ9CiC&campid=4yj9TtDn%2Fheha0eWUOvjsw== by *October 28th*. Make sure to check out our eligibility criteria, timelines, and apply soon!

A taste of the type of sessions you can watch is below the line. We will be publishing our annual blog post with all of the details of the Wikimedia sessions once the dates and times for them are confirmed. Stay tuned!

All the best, Ziski

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- Intersectionality and Sustainability in Journalism: Experiences from the Global South (InternetLab, OSF, Project Multatuli, WMF as facilitator) - How do we use Wikimedia and open-source technology to preserve cultural heritage in crisis? (Wikimedia Heritage Guard Network group) - From countering to building: Finding the keys to promote information integrity online (WMF and the Freedom Online Coalition) - (Lightning Talk) Africa Knowledge Initiative: Revolutionizing access to African indigenous languages (Ceslause Ogbonnaya, Igbo Wikimedians) - (Lightning Talk) Empowering First Nations Digital Rights on Wikimedia (Belinda Spry, WM Australia)

Franziska Putz (she/her)

Senior Movement Advocacy Manager

Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Fputz@wikimedia.org

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