Teklehaymanot G. WeldemichelIn this article, I write about on how the organisers of the Internet Governance Forum #IGF22 being held in Ethiopia have used the event to whitewash the Abiy regime's brutal communication shutdown in Tigray. He writes that the organisers and UN officials have ignored Tigrayan voices.
The Internet Governance Forum: a spectacle of the United Nations’ complicity in the Tigray Genocide
The United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is convening its 17th annual conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week. Among the conference’s broader themes one is:“connecting all people and safeguarding human rights” and “Avoiding Internet Fragmentation”. It is ironic that a UN body whose supposed objective is to promote wider and better access to internet […]