A message to Human Rights Organizers

It is vital now more than ever, that people, especially movement organizers, project handlers etc. to educate themselves. To not wait for the more knowledgeable to rain the information on them. Spend some time to ask google (or Duckduckgo for better options) questions.

You will notice the differences in results geographically, and based on your usual search. This is because - surprise- search results geographically, and politically controlled and manipulated. An example of the political takeover, is the dispute between Mexico and US, after Trump's decision to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps. Google complied, of course! Shyly.

So, in short; seek the information your want; then verify the information necessary from your circle of relevant experts. Don't work in Human rights now if you are not willing to do that labor, and are just fine with being a project implementation and reporting tool.

The Fediverse:

For those who don't know what the fediverse is: "A collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network." - Wikipedia (Illustrated Below)

what that means is that instead of having X, Meta, Tiktok administrated by that single owning corp., These servers are collectively administered and regulated in terms of community regulations and moderation. It allows more freedom of expression, and more feminist approach towards bodily autonomy and agency to representation, meaning Nude bodies are allowed, and are marked as hidden and/or NSFW. Movement wise; This ought to be a more consistent and coherent option.

Therefore; Philanthropists, NGOs, CSOs, Activists..etc. should be on these platforms (especially now)

A message to philanthropy and Civil Society:

Those of us who still struggle, or who just began struggling under the crippling arbitrary measures of authoritarianism, Fascism, and fundamentalism in some areas (ex. US, EU, India), will be faced - to my speculations- by an even worse measures. Such as, over surveillance and authority over activities; or control over banking accounts etc.

This will be particularly expected within the issues of: LGBTIQ, SOGIESC, Women's rights, SRHR, Labor rights for diversities, Racial equality and rights, disabilities rights, digital rights, and religious minorities rights.

My speculation comes from what we have been facing for the past several years in the SWANA/MENA region, collectively called "shrinking of civil society space".

Measures included, but not only:

1. Incitement against specific NGOs, with moral policing, and accusations of treason.
2.  Societal incitement by government officials/ reps, religious clerks/groups, etc. against racial groups (especially Black/Afro descendant), LGBTIQ+, Women who seek abortion, Women who practice sexual relations in non-heteronormative ways, religious minorities, tribes...etc.
3. Using social media and dating apps as methods of entrapment and persecusion.
4. Legitimization of arbitrary measure, either by issuance of laws, or by usage of state of emergency.
5. Cutting the funds, or controlling the access to funds from NGOs that are not on the vibe of the government.
6. Incitement against international human rights entities and threatening the presence of their representatives in some countries.

Here are the 3 points that I want to pass:

1. It is of utmost necessity for philanthropy and civil society to discuss alternative means of circulating financial transactions. In ways that are accessible, credible, monitorable, and secure. This is due to, the potentiality of closure of bank accounts (Like Egypt), or banks being bombed in war zones (Sudan), or due to country's bankruptcy (like the case of Lebanon).
2. We need to operate according to our Goals as movements, not as a re-action to adversary's actions measures and policies. i.e. see the adversary (right-wing for example) as a pebble in the way, not the point of the whole agenda around combatting.  
3. The decentralization was created for two reasons:
1. The realization of the lethal effect of a singular ownership over platforms and their policies, to rights of expression, access to knowledge and other Eco. Soc. rights.
2. The core belief of W3C (the world wide web consortium) and its founders, about the UNCHANGING rights of people to access knowledge without Biases (but eachone's own opinions); to anonymity as a form of expression for those who come from places or identities persecuted in their own contexts, or marginalized. And there is a vast body of research in Social Anthropology about this topic in specific. Our rights do not change; and are not granted by the same body that takes it away, they are taken by force.

Let me know your two cents.