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.
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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.
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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
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[1]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/20/celebrating-human-rights-day-2022-wit…
[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-…
[4]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/07/22/wikimedia-foundation-earns-…
[5]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/21/how-wikimedia-and-partner-organizatio…