{"id":142485,"date":"2017-02-02T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/force11.org\/force11-statement-on-restrictions-on-immigration\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:48:19","slug":"force11-statement-on-restrictions-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/force11-statement-on-restrictions-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"FORCE11 Statement on Restrictions on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ct_body\">\n<p>FORCE11 is an international organization working towards improved open digital communications to support an inclusive and global scholarly community. We strongly support all basic democratic rights including freedom of conscience, and freedom of movement, without which open inquiry and scholarly communication cannot be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>\tFor this reason, the FORCE11 Board of Directors strongly opposes all actions selectively restricting immigration or travel based upon religion, national origin or other collective grounds, including the recent US Government actions restricting immigration based on citizenship and origin.<\/p>\n<p>\tThese measures are attacks upon human rights that are foundational to intellectual freedom and open scholarly communication. We urge our members to join us in working to oppose these and all other measures inimical to open scholarship, intellectual freedom, and human dignity. The FORCE11 Board is committed to advocacy and the advancement of technology and social practice to support inclusive intellectual spaces for open enquiry, criticism, validation and preservation of evidence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe will work to minimise the exclusionary effects of such travel bans through the selection of locations for our activities, through program design and technology. We welcome collaboration with other like-minded organisations to address these issues and reflect together on improving our own practice for building a global and inclusive scholarly community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ct_meta\"><span class=\"ct_label\">Archive:<\/span>&nbsp;<a class=\"ct_archive\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/7738\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/7738<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORCE11 is an international organization working towards improved open digital communications to support an inclusive and global scholarly community. We strongly support all basic democratic rights including freedom of conscience, and freedom of movement, without which open inquiry and scholarly communication cannot be conducted. For this reason, the FORCE11 Board of Directors strongly opposes all &#8230; <a title=\"FORCE11 Statement on Restrictions on Immigration\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/force11-statement-on-restrictions-on-immigration\/\" aria-label=\"More on FORCE11 Statement on Restrictions on Immigration\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"force11":[],"blog_series":[],"working_group":[],"class_list":["post-142485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Cameron Neylon","author_link":"\/members\/cameronneylon"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"2","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 2 Feb 2017","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 2 Feb 2017 16:47","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022 13:48"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142485"},{"taxonomy":"force11","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/force11?post=142485"},{"taxonomy":"blog_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_series?post=142485"},{"taxonomy":"working_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/working_group?post=142485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}