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Access Now joins a coalition of international, regional, and Iraqi human rights organisations to demand that the authorities in Iraq immediately uphold promises to put an end to violent reprisals against the popular protest movement taking place across the country.…
10 October 2019
This week Access Now joined the open letter by the Center for Democracy & Technology to urge Facebook to continue to increase end-to-end security across its messaging services, in the face of government efforts to weaken it and hurt the human rights of countless users.…
8 October 2019
In the midst of conflict and a refugee crisis in Myanmar, people in at least four townships continue to suffer a deliberate internet blackout. We urge the government to restore access to the internet and keep it on.…
30 September 2019
في 20 سبتمبر 2019 ، في بيان شفهي مشترك ألقاه أمام مجلس حقوق الإنسان لاعتماد نتائج المراجعة الدورية الشاملة لدولة قطر، أعربت مجموعة مكونة من 9 منظمات غير حكومية عن قلقها إزاء عدم قبول قطر بمجموعة من توصيات الدول الأعضاء…
23 September 2019
It’s concerning to see leading democratic governments continue to delegate the interpretation and application of laws to private companies and double down on the use of automated upload filters, prone to censoring free speech online.…
19 September 2019
In spite of some timid efforts by the US to finally honor some of its commitments under the Privacy Shield, US laws and practices still undermine the human rights of data subjects in the European Union. …
18 September 2019
