South Korean civil society groups are urging urgent revisions to the AI Act’s subordinate regulations, citing major loopholes that could undermine protections for citizens’ rights and safety as the law takes effect in January 2025.
#YonhapInfomax #AIBasicAct #CivilSociety #RegulatoryLoopholes #HighImpactAI #SouthKoreaLaw #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=94430
#civilsociety
#israel #palestine : #westbank / #settler / #agriculture / #union / #violence / #annexation / #humanrights / #uno
„The UN human rights office, #OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the occupied West Bank, warning that pressure on Palestinian #civilsociety has reached alarming levels.“
A significant EU reform landed recently, reshaping how we safeguard elections, media, civil society, and the information space.
We’ve published an in-depth analysis that connects the dots across the Democracy Shield, the Civil Society Strategy, and the deeper cultural shifts beneath them.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/from-crisis-to-capacity-the-eus-most?r=6l8ed8
#Democracy #eu #disinformation #civicEngagement #humanrights #civilsociety #democraticresilience #informationintegrity #technologyandsociety #publicpolicy #futureofDemocracy
Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/
#HackerNews #AcceptingUSCarStandards #EuropeanLives #SafetyConcerns #CarRegulations #CivilSociety
🇪🇺 #Lobbying: How Europe’s #Business lobby took over the European Commission
The EU’s regulatory 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists at the expense of #CivilSociety groups focused on areas such as the #Environment and #Health
www.euractiv.com/news/counter...
Counterinsurgency: How Europe’...
Started my #Türkiye visit meeting the Istanbul Bar Association and many #CivilSociety members.
My deep appreciation for their important work and the exchange of views.
Communities rely on small #nonprofits—and you can help them succeed.
On #GivingTuesday, join #TechSoup in providing the tools and support they need to grow impact.
Give now: http://spr.ly/6184709S4
#GivingSeason #Nonprofits #CivilSociety #NonprofitOrganization
Africa: Ypls Africa Honored in Accra for Shaping the Continent's Next Generation of Leaders: [Liberian Investigator] ACCRA -- The Young Political Leadership School Africa (YPLS Africa) has been recognized for its transformative work in grooming a new wave of responsible and visionary African leaders, earning a distinguished honor during the 20th Anniversary celebrations of the West Africa Civil Society… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPb231 #YPLSAfrica #Leadership #Africa #FutureLeaders #CivilSociety
National leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement:
“It is unacceptable that resources for international cooperation are controlled exclusively by finance ministers. We want a voice so that public-interest projects can also access Brics funds, because without resources it will be very difficult to put into practice the many good ideas we all share,” he said in his opening remarks.
#MST #BRICS #Dedollarization #CivilSociety #IndigenousRights
#Agroecology
#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Organising railway workers and land migrants: another side of civil society in the Kyrgyz Republic" by Matthew Naumann and Burul Usmanalieva
[Oxford: INTRAC, 2008]
Africa: Network of Bot-Like Accounts Supporting Sanctioned Mining Billionaire: [Global Witness] An online network of bot-like accounts, media sites and X users has been spreading disinformation supporting sanctioned Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and attacking civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Global Witness analysis has found http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPV4CK #Africa #Mining #DRC #Disinformation #CivilSociety
Kenyan civil society petitions ICC to probe Tanzania poll violence http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPTF7R #Tanzania #ICC #HumanRights #SamiaSuluhuHassan #CivilSociety
What really leaves me speechless about #eIDAS (electronic #IDentification, #Authentication and trust Services) is the now customary regulatory behavior, #EU-style.
Without listening to #CivilSociety, pure wishful thinking on the most complex issues is "adopted" as mandatory regulation. Even the most basic ideas about feasibility and design of the technical side are added later, as a heavily versioned "Architecture Reference Framework (ARF)", because: oops, eIDAS has to be implemented somehow now, right?
The market will take care of the rest, thanks to #DigitalZwang. Practically the entire content of eIDAS is a list of gold mines for "service" providers. Either you pay for their services, e.g., for a "digital wallet", with your hard-earned money, for a little #privacy; or you get them "for free" as a little treat from the profiteers of surveillance capitalism, in return for stripping yourself naked ( Art. 5a (16) a): "...unless explicitly authorised by the user." – i.e., clicked away).
Not even a trace of relative anonymity or at least pseudonymity will remain, because (once again) allegedly working technical solutions are promoted that are not resolving the issues either.
You believe that Art. 5 will protect you? "Without prejudice to specific rules of Union or national law requiring users to identify themselves or to the legal effect given to pseudonyms under national law, the use of pseudonyms that are chosen by the user shall not be prohibited."? Read the first part, again – the surveillance capitalist of your choice likely also offers "payment services", for example, which (unfortunately!) "forces" them to know your identity.
Democracy Dies in a Day : #Throughline 🎧
NPR discusses the coup that overthrew the Allende government and the opposition to Pinochet that eventually returned Chile to democracy. The story provides a lesson as to how quickly a republic can fall and how civil society can continue to resist and bring back the rule of law & political freedom even in the harshest environment.
#Chile #Democracy #history #Pinochet #coup #CivilSociety
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5614229/democracy-dies-in-a-day
The dying voice of #CivilSociety in EU policymaking
“The commission claims it wants civil society to be a partner in policymaking. But it shies away from defending NGOs against recent political attacks and fails to secure the stable funding that they need to survive"
euobserver.com/eu-political...
The EU's so-called Civil Socie...
My message at the #ENNHRI's high-level #partnerships event: United in our pursuit of #HumanRights, we can counter the threats to the protection system's very survival.
I pledge to deepen engagement and support for #NHRIs and to speak up for them.
I urge everyone to intensify their efforts to stand up for #civilsociety.
We must act together to make a difference for the people we serve.
Africa: Civil Society Warns of New Land Grabs As World Bank Pushes for Tenure Reforms in Africa: [IPS] The idea of land abundance is a colonial fiction that refuses to die. Our research shows that Africa's lands are already intensively used and deeply valued by millions of rural people. Professor Ruth Hall, Director-PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPMVt6 #LandReform #Africa #CivilSociety #WorldBank #LandRights
#Evil But #stupid
is still very #Dangerous
#Fascism
#Belligerence
#Ignorance
#Hate
#incompetence
#Racism
#Colonialism
It all feeds the furnace of #noise and #chaos in which the fires of #totalitarianism and #oligarchy #rage
#CivilSociety if it ever claws back a toehold - MUST adjust the rules.
#ExpandTheCOurt ( should be 27 - not 9)
#Statehood for #DC #Guam and #PuertoRico
Thats it.
The rest will work itself out.
🗨️ 👩🏽💻 Good morning from the French-border to fediverse, I'm with colleagues (all genders) amid a drill for #firstresponders and #civildefence - will be back tonight, in the meantime: keep up your great work and humanitarian digital boosts, wherever you are - and stay safe
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