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Today a group of more than 60 civil society organizations, technologists, and experts from around the world released an open letter calling on international development agencies and funders, the United Nations, and national governments to fully evaluate the human rights implications of digital identity programs.…
21 October 2019
Dutch politician and thought leader Marietje Schaake has joined Access Now’s global board of directors. Schaake brings a global perspective and a sophisticated and strategic understanding of the key technological and policy debates of our time. …
17 October 2019
Governments should pay attention to the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services.…
17 October 2019
10-أكتوبر/تشرين الأول-2019 تطالب منظمات حقوق الإنسان الدولية والإقليمية والعراقية الموقعة أدناه السلطات في العراق بالالتزام الفوري بوعودها بوضع حدٍ لأعمال الانتقام العنيفة ضد حركة الاحتجاج الشعبية في جميع أنحاء البلاد، والتي خلفت أكثر من 100 قتيل واﻵلاف من الجرحى ومئات…
10 October 2019
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