Stakeholder: Business and Human Rights
Blocking millions in MENA: internet shutdowns in 2025
Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries. Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), authorities and other actors imposed at least 52 internet shutdowns across 15 countries in 2025, highlighting the continued rise of digital repression across the region.
One region, half the world’s shutdowns: internet shutdowns in the Asia Pacific in 2025
Resilience and resistance: internet shutdowns in Africa in 2025
Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries. In Africa, the internet was shut down 30 times in 15 countries.
Rising and resisting in the darkness: internet shutdowns in 2025
Launching today, March 31, 2026, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition’s new report, Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025, reveals that at least 313 shutdowns were implemented in 52 countries.
2026 elections and internet shutdowns watch
Governments around the world continue to shut down the internet during elections. Join our 2025 elections watch to #KeepItOn.
Statement: human rights organizations file brief in Anthropic v. DOW
Shadowy surveillance: Access Now maps the companies implementing the EU’s migration policies
Access Now’s latest research exposes the private sector companies building and profiting from the EU’s extensive surveillance infrastructure.
Addressing human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom facilitated by AppLogic Networks in Egypt
From Sandvine to AppLogic Networks: a rebrand doesn’t mean reform
Access Now, alongside several human rights organizations and independent news platforms, are calling on AppLogic Networks (previously Sandvine) to substantiate its announced corporate reforms following its removal from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List.
MTN Group must commission an independent investigation into potential human rights violations
Access Now and several human rights groups are deeply alarmed by the allegations of MTN Congo’s enabling of human rights abuses.