Mai Truong

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Mai believes that cultivating cultural appreciation and pride is key to building a world…

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  • Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy

    Freedom on the Net 2017

    Online content manipulation contributed to a seventh consecutive year of overall decline in internet freedom, along with a rise in disruptions to mobile internet service and increases in physical and technical attacks on human rights defenders and independent media.

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  • Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure

    Freedom on the Net 2016

    Internet freedom declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during anti-government protests.

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  • Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

    Freedom on the Net 2015

    Freedom on the Net 2015 finds internet freedom around the world in decline for a fifth consecutive year as more governments censored information of public interest while also expanding surveillance and cracking down on privacy tools.

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  • Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

    Freedom on the Net 2014

    Internet freedom around the world declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users.

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  • Burundi

    Freedom in the World 2013

    An analysis of political rights and civil liberties in Burundi in 2012.

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  • Women, Marriage and Asset Inheritance in Uganda

    Development Policy Review

    Using a unique dataset which collected individual-level asset ownership data and women's life histories regarding assets, this article examines the relationships between inheritance, marriage and asset ownership in Uganda. Land is the most important asset in rural Uganda. The majority of couples (both married and those in consensual unions) report owning land jointly. Men who report owning a parcel of land are much more likely than women to say they inherited the land. Inheritance is not an…

    Using a unique dataset which collected individual-level asset ownership data and women's life histories regarding assets, this article examines the relationships between inheritance, marriage and asset ownership in Uganda. Land is the most important asset in rural Uganda. The majority of couples (both married and those in consensual unions) report owning land jointly. Men who report owning a parcel of land are much more likely than women to say they inherited the land. Inheritance is not an important means of acquisition of other assets, including livestock, business assets, financial assets and consumer durables. These items are acquired through purchase, by both men and women.

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    • Cheryl Doss
    • Gorrettie Nabanoga
    • Justine Namaalwa
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  • Freedom on the Net

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    Freedom on the Net is Freedom House's newest index, assessing the degree of internet and digital media freedom around the world. Since its first edition in 2009, Freedom on the Net has become one of the leading references for policymakers, journalists, and activists on this emerging and increasingly important dimension of human rights.

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  • Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security

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