Laura O’Brien on Defending Peaceful Assembly and Association in the Digital Age: Takedowns, Shutdowns, and Surveillance
Laura O’Brien, the UN Advocacy Officer for Access Now, will speak on “Defending Peaceful Assembly and Association in the Digital Age: Takedowns, Shutdowns, and Surveillance,” on Tuesday, February 22 at 5:30 pm (Atlantic) by Zoom as part of the Human Rights and Lecture Series at St. Thomas University.
Register for the Zoom link here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/
Laura O’Brien is the U.N. Advocacy Officer for Access Now. She joins Access Now after completing her LLM at Columbia Law School where she graduated with honors as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and with a Parker School Certificate of Achievement in International and Comparative Law. During her legal studies, Laura explored the pervasiveness of censorship – particularly of human rights defenders – in the digital realm, and assisted the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic on issues related to business and human rights. Laura also holds a JD from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, an MA in International Development from the University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies, and a BA in Social Justice and Peace Studies from King’s University College at Western University. Laura has previously worked with human rights experts and international organizations based in Córdoba, New York, Geneva, Ottawa, and Toronto. She is a licensed barrister and solicitor in Ontario, Canada.
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About the Human Rights and Media Lecture Series
This winter, the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University’s Department of Human Rights, St. Thomas University’s Department of Journalism and Communications, the NB Media Co-op and RAVEN invite the public to the Human Rights & the Media Lecture Series. We will hear from scholars of the media and law, media makers and grassroots activists on how our media landscape is changing. We will hear about what they are doing to make this media landscape a more safe, just and equal space.
Upcoming lectures
March 17 – Fenwick McKelvey, Assistant Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies, on how AI is shaping our lives and communications.
March 31 – Siti Maimunah, a rapporteur for the People’s Tribunal at COP26 in Glasgow and member of the COP26 Coalition, on telling the stories of people of the Global South affected by climate change.
April 12 – Kaitlyn Layden, a Saint John-based disability rights advocate, on engaging the media to advance the rights of people with disabilities.
For more information, contact Tracy Glynn at tglynn@stu.ca.
