Reports

To collaborate in the report "The surveillance industry and human rights" made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Al Sur presented a regional overview of how surveillance industry has affected several human rights in the region [document in English].

On the occasion of the international call made by Facebook to receive contributions for the "Draft Charter: An Oversight Board for Content Decisions," Al Sur decided to present its regional approach. Among many suggestions, Al Sur proposed that the Oversight Board have the power to directly impact the regulatory design of the platform's content policies. [Document in Spanish].

Although the term private security could be very broad, this report focuses on the use of surveillance technologies by private security in the field of "citizen security". In a context of increasing digitization of our societies, this document provides clues to the most urgent and important public policy challenges in the context of protecting our human rights.

This document analyzes the frequent use of digital technologies by the Latinamerican States as a form of intimidation, profiling, and surveillance of human rights defenders. This document was the response to a joint call made by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which are currently working on their report on the situation of human rights defenders in the Americas. [Document in Spanish].

Report for the OAS Summit of the Americas in 2018. It highlights the need for transparency and accountability in the acquisition of surveillance technologies by States. This document is also referenced in the 2020 report on "Companies and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards" of the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (ESCER) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). [Document in Spanish].

This report was sent in 2018 to the IACHR Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (ESCER) as a contribution to its thematic report on "Business and Human Rights: Inter-American Standards." The final report was published in January 2020, including our recommendations.

This document is a regional approach to understand how online gender based-violence is affecting Latin America from a public policy perspective. It was prepared as a contribution to the report on the matter presented by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women. [Document in Spanish].