R2K urges the leadership of the police to issue a clear message to its members: citizens have a right to photograph and film police officers! After another incident last week, in which a bystander...
What’s wrong with the draft Cybercrimes & Cybersecurity Bill? Here are the submissions made by a range of local and international organisations: AccessNow Association of Progressive Communications Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Monitoring Africa Mozilla...
[UPDATE 19 JANUARY 2017 — the Department of Justice has unveiled a new, redrafted version of this Bill approved by Cabinet. The guide below reflects the 2015 version of the draft Bill, not the...
Right2Know responds to Forum of Journalists for Transformation: Congrats on your launch, but if you are journalists, then get your facts straight! The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the launch of the newly established Forum of...
[UPDATE Oct 2018 — As of 23 October 2018, a substantially revised version of the Cybercrimes Bill was tabled in Parliament, with the cybersecurity portions of the Bill tripped out. The 23 Oct 2018...
This article below was published by indexoncensorship.org: The Index Online Essay: Right2Know’s countrywide series of conferences are exploring the state of the press By Raymond Joseph / 26 November 2015 The media does not care about...
R2K would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the producers of Miners Shot Down for winning an International Emmy Award on Monday night. The film which won in the Best Documentary category will...
We are dismayed at Parliament’s failure to nominate someone to fill the vacant role of Inspector General of Intelligence. The Office of Inspector General of Intelligence is a crucial watchdog against surveillance and abuse...
As inequality deepens and social cohesion falters South Africa needs a media that can offer expression to the full range of voices and facilitate the substantive and complex debates about the social and economic...
R2K will be picketing today against the State Security Agency’s (SSA) in Cape Town, Durban and Tshwane . Our action is in direct response to the outrageous claims – as reported by the SundayTimes...
