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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.

South Sudan #KeepItOn

Internet shutdowns in 2021 report: MENA in the dark

28 Apr 2022 •

In 2021, Access Now documented at least 23 shutdowns in nine countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Read “The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021.”

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Internet shutdowns in 2021 report: MENA in the dark
28 Apr 2022
Internet shutdowns in 2021 report: MENA in the dark
Tunisian Biometric ID and Passport

بطاقة التعريف البيومترية في تونس: خطر على الخصوصية وحماية المعطيات الشخصية 

13 Apr 2022 •

.لسنوات، حاولت السلطات في تونس تمرير قانون بطاقة التعريف البيومترية الذي يمثل خطرا و تهديدا كبيراً للحق في الخصوصية وغيره من الحقوق الأساسية

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بطاقة التعريف البيومترية في تونس: خطر على الخصوصية وحماية المعطيات الشخصية 
13 Apr 2022
بطاقة التعريف البيومترية في تونس: خطر على الخصوصية وحماية المعطيات الشخصية 
Tunisian Biometric ID and Passport

Biometric ID in Tunisia: a threat to privacy and data protection

13 Apr 2022 •

Authorities in Tunisia have been deliberating over a biometric ID law that bears threats to the right to privacy & other fundamental rights.

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Biometric ID in Tunisia: a threat to privacy and data protection
13 Apr 2022
Biometric ID in Tunisia: a threat to privacy and data protection
spyware

Facing the consequences: Access Now welcomes legal action against NSO Group

5 Apr 2022 •

Access Now welcomes a lawsuit filed against NSO Group for facilitating unlawful surveillance of French-Palestinian human rights defender, Salah Hammour.

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Facing the consequences: Access Now welcomes legal action against NSO Group
5 Apr 2022
Facing the consequences: Access Now welcomes legal action against NSO Group
internet shutdown #KeepItOn

تونس: النفاذ إلى شبكات الاتصال و تطبيقات التواصل عن بعد حق دستوري

31 Mar 2022 •

نعبر رفقة عدد من الجمعيات والمنظمات التونسية والدولية قلقنا حول ما تم تداوله عن تعطيل خدمات تطبيقات التواصل في تونس.

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تونس: النفاذ إلى شبكات الاتصال و تطبيقات التواصل عن بعد حق دستوري
31 Mar 2022
تونس: النفاذ إلى شبكات الاتصال و تطبيقات التواصل عن بعد حق دستوري
internet shutdown #KeepItOn

Tunisia: Access to online conferencing platforms and networks is a constitutional right

31 Mar 2022 •

Access Now joins civil society organizations in calling for safe and open access to online conferencing platforms in Tunisia.

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Tunisia: Access to online conferencing platforms and networks is a constitutional right
31 Mar 2022
Tunisia: Access to online conferencing platforms and networks is a constitutional right
Protest and human rights

Social media companies must take urgent action to protect Libyan human rights defenders

22 Mar 2022 •

Access Now joins a coalition of human rights organizations in calling on social media companies to ensure the protection of human rights defenders in Libya.

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Social media companies must take urgent action to protect Libyan human rights defenders
22 Mar 2022
Social media companies must take urgent action to protect Libyan human rights defenders
Digital censorship

ایران- هشدار جمعی از سازمان‌های حقوق بشری درباره‌ی طرح صیانت

17 Mar 2022 •

ما، جمعی از سازمان‌های حقوق بشری و نهادهای جامعه‌ی مدنی، با امضای این بیانیه نگرانی عمیق خود از تلاش مجلس شورای اسلامی ایران برای تصویب کلیات «طرح نظام تنظیم مقررات خدمات فضای مجازی» که در نسخه‌های پیشین‌اش طرح «صیانت از حقوق کاربران در فضای مجازی و ساماندهی پیام‌رسان‌های اجتماعی» نامیده شده بود («طرح صیانت») اعلام می‌کنیم.

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ایران- هشدار جمعی از سازمان‌های حقوق بشری درباره‌ی طرح صیانت
17 Mar 2022
ایران- هشدار جمعی از سازمان‌های حقوق بشری درباره‌ی طرح صیانت
Digital censorship

Iran: Human rights groups sound alarm against draconian Internet Bill 

17 Mar 2022 •

Access Now and international civil society organizations urge Iranian authorities to promote human rights, and immediately withdraw the draconian “Regulatory System for Cyberspace Services Bill.”

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Iran: Human rights groups sound alarm against draconian Internet Bill 
17 Mar 2022
Iran: Human rights groups sound alarm against draconian Internet Bill 

Il faut faire barrage aux restrictions imminentes qui menacent la société civile Tunisienne

11 Mar 2022 •

Access Now rejoint 12 organisations tunisiennes et internationales de défense des droits humains pour appeler les autorités tunisiennes à renoncer les nouvelles restrictions aux organisations de la société civile tunisienne.

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Il faut faire barrage aux restrictions imminentes qui menacent la société civile Tunisienne
11 Mar 2022
Il faut faire barrage aux restrictions imminentes qui menacent la société civile Tunisienne
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