Jane Eklund
Jane Eklund is the digital rights program manager for Women on Web (WoW), which is a Canadian nonprofit organization that has supported access to abortion for care seekers in over 180 countries. She focuses on advocacy initiatives related to digital resilience to abortion censorship globally. Prior to her role at WoW, she supported Amnesty International USA’s work to fight the suppression of reproductive health and rights content online as the tech and reproductive rights fellow, and assisted AIUSA’s gender, sexuality, and identity program on state-level abortion rights work and research on human rights abuses against Indigenous women in the U.S.
Session
This panel discussion will offer insights into the challenges faced by human rights defenders and hacktivists in today’s context of intensified digital repression, including surveillance, censorship, and cyberwarfare. The three panelists will report from the frontlines, sharing their technical expertise and experiences living among activists and supporting them in their work in different countries. Topics will include hacktivism in Ukraine, disrupting surveillance in Serbia and Thailand, and tech and reproductive rights in the USA and worldwide. Each panelist will briefly share their stories and insights, and then the discussion between them and the audience will be opened.
