Welcoming remarks: Irina Schoulgin-Nyoni, Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden Moderator: Alejandro Mayoral Baños, Co-Executive Director, ...

For years, Access Now and civil society have raised the alarm over Telenor’s hasty and irresponsible departure from Myanmar and the potential human rights abuses should Telenor sell its Myanmar ...

A critical tool for fighting against an Orwellian future’ — Why users of this encrypted messaging app are helping keep the project alive ...

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are ...

In 2025, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 313 shutdowns in 52 countries, surpassing the appalling records from 2024 (304) and 2023 (289). Seven new countries joined the offender list ...

In 2023, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented 283 shutdowns in 39 countries. These are staggering results, marking the highest number of shutdown incidents in a single year since we began ...

The relationship between humanitarian actors and the communities they serve has evolved to include an increasingly transactional dynamic: people are asked to share data about themselves, their ...

Next month, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) looks set to adopt a new convention on cybercrime; despite myriad warnings from civil society that, as it stands, the convention poses serious threats to ...

Correction: The previous version of this post identified Al-Karama as an “independent” publication, when it was issued by a political party. This has now been corrected. A new investigation by Access ...

Last month, the Myanmar military issued a slew of new by-laws pursuant to the country’s 2014 Counter Terrorism Act – all of which give the junta vast and unchecked powers to control, monitor, and ...