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Marwa Fatafta

MENA Policy and Advocacy Director

Marwa leads Access Now’s policy and advocacy work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Her work spans a number of issues at the nexus of human rights and technology including content governance and platform accountability, online censorship, digital surveillance, and transnational repression. She has written extensively on the digital occupation in Palestine and focuses on the role of new technologies in armed conflicts and humanitarian contexts and their impact on historically marginalized and oppressed communities. Marwa is a Policy Analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, an advisory board member of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, and an advisory committee member for Bread&Net. Marwa was a Fulbright scholar in the US and holds an MA in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She holds a second MA in Development and Governance from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Protest and human rights

Stop the persecution: Iranian authorities must immediately release technologists and digital rights defenders

14 Oct 2022

Civil society is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of digital rights defenders and technologists in Iran.

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Stop the persecution: Iranian authorities must immediately release technologists and digital rights defenders
14 Oct 2022
Stop the persecution: Iranian authorities must immediately release technologists and digital rights defenders
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ایران: هشدار در خصوص بازداشت گسترده مدافعان حقوق بشر در میان اعتراضات

4 Oct 2022
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ایران: هشدار در خصوص بازداشت گسترده مدافعان حقوق بشر در میان اعتراضات
4 Oct 2022
ایران: هشدار در خصوص بازداشت گسترده مدافعان حقوق بشر در میان اعتراضات
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Iran: alarm over mass arrests of human rights defenders amidst protests

4 Oct 2022

Civil society call for an end to the deliberate violence and arrests against human rights defenders, journalists, and activists during the Iran protests

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Iran: alarm over mass arrests of human rights defenders amidst protests
4 Oct 2022
Iran: alarm over mass arrests of human rights defenders amidst protests
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Meta’s actions “adversely impacted” Palestinians’ rights: Access Now welcomes BSR findings

27 Sep 2022

Access Now welcomes the release of BSR’s human rights due diligence findings that expose Meta’s rights-violating actions against people in Palestine.

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Meta’s actions “adversely impacted” Palestinians’ rights: Access Now welcomes BSR findings
27 Sep 2022
Meta’s actions “adversely impacted” Palestinians’ rights: Access Now welcomes BSR findings
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بيان موقف حول نتائج الفحص المتعلق بحقوق الإنسان حول آثار ميتا في إسرائيل و فلسطين في مايو 2021

27 Sep 2022

أصدرت أكساس ناو بالتعاون مع 73 شريك محلي وإقليمي ودولي بيانا مشتركا حول تقرير العناية الواجبة ذات الصلة بحقوق الإنسان حول آثار ميتا في إسرائيل و فلسطين.

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بيان موقف حول نتائج الفحص المتعلق بحقوق الإنسان حول آثار ميتا في إسرائيل و فلسطين في مايو 2021
27 Sep 2022
بيان موقف حول نتائج الفحص المتعلق بحقوق الإنسان حول آثار ميتا في إسرائيل و فلسطين في مايو 2021
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Joint statement: civil society welcomes independent human rights assessment on Meta’s content moderation in Palestine and Israel

27 Sep 2022

Through a joint statement, civil society commends BSR’s human rights assessment on Meta’s content moderation in Palestine and Israel.

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Joint statement: civil society welcomes independent human rights assessment on Meta’s content moderation in Palestine and Israel
27 Sep 2022
Joint statement: civil society welcomes independent human rights assessment on Meta’s content moderation in Palestine and Israel
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The world must support people in Iran: sanctions relief helps connect the nation

26 Sep 2022

Access Now supports sanctions relief to keep Iran country connected — to information, platforms for expression, and the outside world.

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The world must support people in Iran: sanctions relief helps connect the nation
26 Sep 2022
The world must support people in Iran: sanctions relief helps connect the nation
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Stop suppressing the population: authorities in Iran must #KeepItOn

22 Sep 2022

Access Now is outraged by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, and calls on authorities in Iran to reinstate internet access across the country.

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Stop suppressing the population: authorities in Iran must #KeepItOn
22 Sep 2022
Stop suppressing the population: authorities in Iran must #KeepItOn
Digital censorship

تونس: يجب على الرئيس إلغاء المرسوم الذي يقوض الحق في حرية التعبير والصحافة

21 Sep 2022
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تونس: يجب على الرئيس إلغاء المرسوم الذي يقوض الحق في حرية التعبير والصحافة
21 Sep 2022
تونس: يجب على الرئيس إلغاء المرسوم الذي يقوض الحق في حرية التعبير والصحافة
Digital censorship

Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press

21 Sep 2022

Civil society condemn the new decree-law 54 in in Tunisia and urge the President to withdraw it in order to uphold freedom of expression and press freedom.

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Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press
21 Sep 2022
Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press