This text was part of a whole collection of articles made by extraordinary authors. The series collects investigations exploring how technology is weaponised against women human rights defenders in #Ethiopia, #Kashmir, #Lebanon, #Pakistan, #Sudan and #Venezuela.

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Also, no shade to sci-fi!

I’d love to have a workshop on it too, if you hear of any! #literature #tech

Meanwhile, Venezuela remains under an authoritarian regime that imprisons journalists, holds torture centers, persecutes and disappears dissidents and human rights defenders; where a humanitarian crisis continues to take place and a third of the population has gone in an unprecedented exodus.

Of course I'm quite shaken by her alliances and by the fact that another year has passed without an acknowledgement of the genocide in Palestine. That's impossible to ignore

To me, this prize, albeit possibly strategic to avoid antagonizing certain governments, recognizes the people who have been jailed, mistreated, forcefully disappeared or made invisible, but that made the 28J a day of extraordinary civil disobedience.

The Norwegian committee's speech even recalled those who defended the electoral records.

MCM has been the only option for Venezuelans to move closer to something that resembles democracy.
She led a massive movement, with millions participating - and many are still paying the price.

But this award also brings visibility - and hopefully spaces to talk about the complexity of Venezuela's crisis, which after more than 20 years of cyclical explosions still seems unclear to much of the world.

March 2020 3/ #Venezuela and the Right to Narrate w/ @elevidalbe.bsky.social

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