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Digital surveillance is breaking activist mental health

Written by Gina Romero

4 weeks ago

The signal we cannot ignore: What the LONDA 2025 report reveals about Africa’s digital rights

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

5 June 2026

AI cameras are surveilling the roads in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Written by Nurunnaby Chowdhury

3 June 2026

Myanmar journalists across borders remain dedicated to truth despite risks

Written by Exile Hub

12 May 2026

Stories about Human Rights

How AI is upgrading African dictatorship

The IDS mapping shows cameras clustered where opposition parties organize, not where ordinary crime is highest

Written by Guest Contributor

22 May 2026

Meta removes Bangladeshi community archivists’ pages through false copyright claims

Despite clear calls for coordinated attacks, Meta did not act to safeguard these activist pages

Written by Shoeb A

6 May 2026

The Chinese lesson on the human rights approach to AI

China's AI development strategy serves as a case study on balancing the state, the machine, and people’s power

Written by Oiwan Lam

30 April 2026

A lack of electricity and internet access hinders AI adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Connectivity is no longer just about convenience, but also about fairness and fundamental rights.

Written by Jean Sovon

Translated by Laura

28 April 2026

Brazil: A warning on how AI and deepfakes can become an ’excessive risk‘ to women and girls

An organization calls attention to the need for regulation amid gender violence cases in the country

Written by Fernanda Canofre

28 April 2026

AI hype narrative reaches the public healthcare system in El Salvador

El Salvador’s government claims an AI assistant will help make its public healthcare system a reference.

Written by Civic Media Observatory, Samanta Azpurua

28 April 2026

The challenge of civic trust as AI plays a bigger role in public management

The challenge of civic trust in the face of AI is temporal as much as technical

Written by Nishant Shah

27 April 2026

Decolonizing AI at the U.S. border

What happens when AI is deployed to decide who is detained and who is excluded?

Written by UntoldMag

25 April 2026

India’s race to adopt AI sparks a deeper question: How can technology respect human rights?

Technologies like AI-enabled surveillance and facial recognition are restricting civic space and aiding state authoritarianism

Written by Rezwan

24 April 2026

‘Sportellino’ is an AI chatbot who helps migrants navigate the maze of Italian bureaucracy

Sportellino creators say the chatbot can be a powerful force for promoting rights, inclusion, and respect

Written by Marisa Petricca

24 April 2026

Africa has 2,000 languages. AI content moderation knows fewer than 20

Around 98 percent of Africa's languages are invisible to AI content moderation systems

Written by Guest Contributor

20 April 2026

Research reveals that EU AI rules stop at its borders with little accountability for human rights impacts abroad

EU exports AI systems that are escalating human rights violations in Palestine and the WANA region

Written by Guest Contributor

16 April 2026

When technology fails women: Online abuse and Nigeria’s digital weak points

Grok has become a powerful tool for amplifying online gender-based violence (OGBV)

Written by Guest Contributor

10 April 2026

AI porn isn’t regulated. What does that mean for depictions of queer bodies?

What happens when you can create porn with artificial intelligence?

Written by Uncloseted MEdia

2 April 2026

How artificial intelligence and synthetic reality shaped Bangladesh’s 2026 election

An analysis of Bangladesh’s first AI-saturated election, where seeing was no longer believing

Written by Zulker Naeen

1 April 2026

Forbidden movies: Russia bans films that reject so-called ‘traditional values’

A movie about the Nuremberg trials made the forbidden list even before the law was enacted

Written by Daria Dergacheva

13 March 2026

Government attacks on mainstream media undermine the credibility of democracy in Botswana

There is also pronounced self-censorship among journalists as they fear criticism, harassment and lawsuits.

Written by Guest Contributor

9 March 2026

Pakistan jails two lawyers for 17 years over old tweets

The trial moved unusually fast, speeding from indictment to sentencing in under three months

Written by Syed Salman Mehdi

20 February 2026

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai receives a 20-year jail sentence

For the 78-year-old publisher, 20 years of imprisonment is effectively a death sentence.

Written by Oiwan Lam

10 February 2026

The social media battlefield: Political campaigns in Bangladesh’s national elections

Digital campaigning has become central to how political messages are delivered and received

Written by Mohammad Tarek Hasan

10 February 2026

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