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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကြုံတွေ့နေရသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းမှုတွင် ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်နည်းအရ ဖိနှိပ်များရှိရာ တန်ပြန်ခုခံ ဆန့်ကျင်ရန် တောင်းဆို – မလိုလားအပ်သည့် ဆိုးကျိုးများ ထပ်တိုး မကြုံရစေရေး နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝန်းအနေဖြင့် အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်တပ်၏ စစ်စွယ်ကို ချိုးဖျက်ကာ စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှုကို ရပ်တန့်ရေး ကူညီရန် တိုက်တွန်း
International community must dismantle military dictatorship, resist the coup, and push back against surveillance in Myanmar.
…31 January 2023
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အသက်ပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးသည့် အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး ၂ နှစ်အကြာ- မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးများကို ကူညီကာကွယ်ပေးရန် နိုင်ငံတကာ အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအား တိုက်တွန်းတောင်းဆို
After two years of a violent coup in Myanmar, the international community must condemn the junta’s abuses and surveillance infrastructure.…
31 January 2023
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U.S. Congress takes additional steps to combat spyware
Access Now applauds the U.S. Congress for passing bipartisan legislation to counter foreign commercial spyware that poses a threat to human rights defenders around the world. This legislation will aid efforts to mitigate the threat posed by targeted surveillance technologies,…
23 December 2022
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Open letter: Safaricom must delete all biometric data collected unlawfully during Kenya’s SIM card registration exercise
Through an open letter, Access Now urges Safaricom to delete all biometric data collected unlawfully during Kenya’s SIM card registration exercise. …
14 December 2022
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Phone contracts should not bind survivors to abusers — SAFE Connections Act needed now
Access Now strongly endorses the SAFE Connections Act, to be considered in the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee today. The legislation would make it easier for survivors of domestic violence to separate from shared phone plans that include their abuser.…
7 December 2022
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Surveillance tech: EU Commission failed to protect human rights in Africa
Access Now supports the European Ombudsman’s findings that the EU failed to ensure the protection of human rights in the transfers of technology with potential surveillance capacity via the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.…
7 December 2022
