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Post-election repression in Venezuela: Authorities target human rights defenders and humanitarian workers

Written by Estefanía Salazar, Gabriela Mesones Rojo Translated (en) by Melissa Vida

9 August 2024

Controversial hacktivists may have prompted El Salvador’s censorship of Telegram

Written by Abigail Paz

10 July 2024

Online resistance against Nicaragua‘s ‘Peace Law’

Written by ProBox Translated (en) by ProBox, Melissa Vida

10 May 2024

A decade of digital repression and resistance in Southeast Asia

Written by Mong Palatino

14 March 2024

Stories about Activism

We demand the immediate release of Venezuelan human rights defender Carlos Correa

Global Voices Advox and more than 80 signatories demand the release of human rights defender Carlos Correa

Written by Melissa Vida

11 January 2025

Brazil: Communicators and activists from marginalized communities discuss online harassment and how they protect themselves

Communicators from minority groups are frequently targeted by attacks

Written by Agência Mural Translated (en) by Liam Anderson

13 October 2023

Post-pandemic, lockdown on rights persists in the Philippines

Surveillance and repressive laws enacted during the pandemic remain in effect

Written by EngageMedia

27 June 2023

Hong Kong authorities clamp down on the annual commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown

The June 4th panic virus is tiny, there are no preventive measures against it

Written by Oiwan Lam

4 June 2023

Veteran Hong Kong labor rights activist arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion

Elizabeth Tang cofounded the now-dissolved HKCTU with her husband Lee Cheuk Yan

Written by Oiwan Lam

14 March 2023

Meta's Oversight Board grapples with Facebook and Instagram's opaque content guidelines

Meta's algorithms remove content raising awareness about human rights abuses

Written by Jerome

9 March 2023

Fake Russian fact-checkers spread propaganda about the war in Ukraine

True fact-checkers undergo annual certification and audit process by IFCN

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

1 March 2023

Charity treason: The legal practice of persecuting Russians who donate to Ukraine

For the FSB, there is no bank secrecy

Written by Sofia Kovalevskaya

28 February 2023

The future of mass surveillance in Serbia

Since 2019, Serbian digital rights organizations have warned against surveillance system

Written by Guest Contributor

7 February 2023

How military supporters are using Telegram channels to suppress dissent in Myanmar

Private groups are a way to share information about dissenters

Written by Advox

30 January 2023

Rights organization OVD-Info gives an overview of repression in Russia in 2022

Human rights organization OVD-Info collected the main figures on Russian political repressions in 2022

Written by Guest Contributor

11 January 2023

Eight months of ‘fakes’ and ‘discreditation’: How the Kremlin’s new laws against anti-war dissent are applied online

The risk of prosecution forces people to censor themselves

Written by Sofia Kovalevskaya

10 November 2022

Ecuador: the temptation to control technology

Journalists and digital rights activists are always on alert for state diversion

Written by Carlos E. Flores Translated (en) by Ameya Nagarajan

3 November 2022

Ola Bini, the cyberactivist who causes panic in Ecuador

The case of Ola Bini reveals the Ecuadorian state's ignorance of cybersecurity

Written by Carlos E. Flores Translated (en) by Ameya Nagarajan

21 October 2022

Unfreedom Monitor report: Data Governance

An excerpt from Advox research on data governance

Written by Advox

6 October 2022

Unfreedom Monitor report: Tanzania

An excerpt from Advox research on digital authoritarianism in Tanzania

Written by Advox

15 September 2022

Chinese social media platforms add hidden digital watermarks to track screenshot sharing

Douban is the first social media site using the digital tracker

Written by Oiwan Lam

7 September 2022

Whistleblowing is a service to society: Interview with Disruption Network Lab director Tatiana Bazzichelli

Whistleblowing should be a civil right

Written by Filip Noubel

25 August 2022

Iranian women’s rights activists face new online threats

Big tech needs to do more for Iranian social media users

Written by Azin Mohajerin, Sussan Tahmasebi

25 August 2022

Access the Unfreedom Monitor database

The relational database of the Unfreedom Monitor research

Written by Advox

14 July 2022

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