
Tag: Australia


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Digital rights are human rights: Holding Australia, Georgia, Myanmar, and Nauru to account at the U.N.
When member states fail to protect human rights — such as by cutting off internet access in the middle of a global pandemic — we leverage the UPR process to call attention to that failure and press for change. …
10 September 2020


Press Releases
Snatching away a lifeline: Australia cannot deny asylum seekers mobile phone access
Lawmakers must reject a bill to give the Australian Border Force the right to confiscate mobile phones — a lifeline of information, communication, and documentation — from asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention.…
1 September 2020


Press Releases
Access Now welcomes INSLM recommendations on TOLA reform
Access Now welcomes the publication this week of the final report of the INSLM evaluating whether the TOLA contains sufficient safeguards for protecting the rights of individuals, and whether its provisions remain proportionate and necessary.…
10 July 2020





Access Now in the News
CLOUD Act has a human rights problem
James Riley, InnovationAus
27 April 2020

Access Now in the News
Digital groups call for COVID app transparency
Denham Sadler, InnovationAus
14 April 2020