Nani’s social justice and human rights work has been covered by a wide variety of media worldwide.
Selected media
Five Sundays of social justice
Nani was a regular opinion writer for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant during October 2023. You can find her five opinion pieces below.
The case Sammy Baker again raises the question: Who protects us from the police?As long as we can “buy” climate solutions, climate elitism will prevail
The deafening feminist silence on the French abaya ban
Why we should believe Black women more than we believe tech companies
Black women deserve more attention, every day, because we owe them so much
Nani’s OpEd on the need for an intersectional approach to climate work was published by Project Syndicate and Tagesspiegel. Full article as PDF.
Across the Global North, one of the climate movement’s dominant narratives is that climate change will affect “future generations”. Yet this focus completely ignores the ravages that marginalized communities are already suffering, also in Europe.
Nani was featured in Politico’s 2021 ranking of the “28 power players behind Europe’s tech revolution” for her visionary work on tech and human rights at the Digital Freedom Fund.
“Nani Jansen Reventlow is the tech activists’ fairy godmother. The human rights lawyer founded DFF, which helps digital rights groups launch strategic litigation cases. […] Reventlow’s work is especially valuable when it comes to one of Europe’s blindspots: race.”
Nani was featured in the careers section of Metro UK in September 2020. See full spread here (PDF).
“International human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow is responsible for groundbreaking freedom of expression cases across the world”
RTBF
Nani Jansen Reventlow, pour une justice systémique (in French)
De Groene Amsterdammer
Naar een cyberspace gebaseerd op al onze mensenrechten (in Dutch)
Politico
Automated racism: How tech can entrench bias
Al Jazeera
Data collection is not the solution for Europe’s racism problem
Washington Post
A French court case against Google could threaten global speech rights
The Guardian
Azerbaijan attacks Amal Clooney over support for jailed journalist
Rwanda journalists jailed for genocide denial launch supreme court appeal
Op-eds
- Apologies are nice, but now is the time for reparations, NRC (in Dutch)
- Righting imperialism’s wrongs, past and present, Project Syndicate
- Wokeness has not ‘gone too far’ – in fact, it’s underfunded, Alliance Magazine
- Five ways to become a better climate justice funder, Environmental Funders Network
- ‘Eco-ableism’, the EU, and climate disaster, EUobserver
- Stop algoritmen van overheid die tot discriminatie en uitsluiting leiden, de Volkskrant (in Dutch)
- Government algorithms are out of control and ruin lives, openDemocracy
- Why tech needs to focus on the needs of marginalized groups, World Economic Forum
- US Corporations are talking about bans for AI. Will the EU?, Euractiv
- How Amazon’s Moratorium on Facial Recognition Tech Is Different From IBM’s and Microsoft’s, Slate
- Digital Rights are Human Rights, Slate
- The Power of International Law, World Policy Blog
Interviews
- Rotzooi in, rotzooi uit – Hoe wordt digitale technologie inclusiever?, De Groene Amsterdammer (in Dutch)
- Big Tech als ‘grote verlosser’, Interview: Mensenrechtenadvocaat Nani Jansen Reventlow, OneWorld Magazine (in Dutch)
- Een ongemakkelijke waarheid over desinformatie en racisme, waag (in Dutch)
- Real activism happens IRL (in real life), Strength and Solidarity in Human Rights podcast
- Nani Jansen Reventlow: Kämpferin für digitale Menschenrechte, AufRuhr Magazine (in German)
- Breaking the Digital Monoculture, Digital Earth
- Who decides? Free speech in the age of social media, Oxford Policy Pod
- ATLAS: Nani Jansen Reventlow, profile on atlaswomen.org
- “Nigerian Journalist & Activist Omoyele Sowore Remains Jailed for Calling for Peaceful Protests“, Democracy Now!
- On data protection, the right to be forgotten and online speech regulation, Novi Magazin
- “Only by speaking up can we change the system”, breaking.through portrait
- Oxford Internet Institute 2018 Internet & Society Award winner’s profile
- “Sticks and Stones: Freedom of Speech in Europe and the U.S.”, Are We Europe magazine
- “A ruling with impact”, akzente
- “Procederen met een politiek doel”, Advocatenblad (in Dutch)
- “Time to fight back for our digital rights”, Legal Dialogue
- EthioScope with Nani Jansen, Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio
- Media need to step up efforts to protect digital rights, Deutsche Welle Akademie
- Nani Jansen Reventlow, human rights lawyer, Women in Foreign Policy
- Mr. van de week: Nani Jansen, Mr. magazine (in Dutch)
- “Their Stories, Nani Jansen”, University of Amsterdam
- “A Case for Optimism: A Q&A with Nani Jansen Reventlow”, The ACtHPR Monitor
- Nederlandse op shortlist Britse advocatenprijs, Advocatenblad (in Dutch)
- Q&A: Ethiopian journalists languish in prison, Al Jazeera
- “Vrijheid van meningsuiting in Rwanda”, Amsterdams Balie Bulletin (in Dutch)
- “Victories and Challenges for Media Defense: A Conversation with Media Legal Defense Initiative”, Open Society Foundations
Articles
- ‘Fake news’ laws, privacy & free speech on trial: Government overreach in the infodemic?, First Draft
- Football Leaks: Spanish judge requests to block revelations involving Real Madrid stars, European Centre for Press & Media Freedom
- Amal Clooney and Nani Jansen to act as Co-Counsel for Khadija Ismayilova before European Court of Human Rights, Doughty Street International
- Nani Jansen ’06 LL.M. Wins Landmark Freedom of Expression Case in African Court, Columbia Law School
- University bestows inaugural Global Freedom of Expression Prizes, Columbia University Magazine
- Women’s rights and their access on internet, The Express Tribune