Business & Human Rights at Yahoo!

Information and technology can transform lives, communities, and even political systems. We use information and technology to learn, to inform, to create and to connect. Expanding access to information and technology brings their power to more people, but it can also present complex challenges. At Yahoo!, our business, products, technology and operating footprint increasingly intersect with human rights issues around the world. We know that we, like other companies, have important obligations to the communities in which we operate. Yahoo! is committed to leading in the efforts to protect and promote free expression and privacy on the Internet, so in 2008, we launched the Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program. The BHRP integrates human rights issues into the way we make business decisions and promotes privacy and free expression through concrete actions. To learn more about what we do, go to Our Initiatives.

The Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Program, along with Yahoo! Maktoob, and in partnership with Vital Voices, is hosting a summit in Cairo, Egypt on January 18, 2012. Change Your World! Cairo 2012 will spotlight how women across the Middle East and North Africa are using technology, the Internet and various social and digital media platforms to create positive change in the world. The Summit will be moderated by Mona Eltahawy and will focus on four primary areas: women’s leadership in governance and politics, women’s rights/human rights and social justice, journalism, and entrepreneurship.  Confirmed participants include Dalia Ziada, Shereen Allam, and Danya Bashir Hobba. To learn more about Change Your World! Cairo 2012, and the full line-up, please view the Agenda. If you’re based in the region and interested in attending, please see here.

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