In 2011, Access Now hosted the first-ever RightsCon (then the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference). We met with the intention to create something different: a civil society-led space where all stakeholders – from tech companies to government representatives to human rights defenders – could come together to build a rights-respecting digital future. Since then, RightsCon has rotated between five continents and grown, both in size and in scope to meet the evolving needs of a movement.

Register for RightsCon Costa Rica, taking place in San José and online from June 5-8, 2023

Our History

2022

RightsCon
2022

+9,300 participants
+560 sessions
162 countries

2021

RightsCon
10th Anniversary

+7,600 participants
+300 sessions
158 countries

2020

RightsCon
Online

+7,600 participants
+300 sessions
158 countries

2019

RightsCon
Tunis

+2,750 participants
+450 sessions
+700 organizations
122 countries

2018

RightsCon
Toronto

2,500 participants
+700 organizations
118 countries

2017

RightsCon
Brussels

+1,500 participants
+700 organizations
105 countries

2016

RightsCon
Silicon Valley

+1100 participants
+500 organizations
84 countries

2015

RightsCon
Manilla

+650 participants
40 countries
+300 institutions

2014

RightsCon
Silicon Valley

+700 participants
65 countries
365 institutions.

2012

RightsCon
Rio de Janeiro

+400 participants

2011

RightsCon
Silicon Valley

+400 participants

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