Skip to main content
Back to content

Tag: cybercrime law

UN Cybercrime Treaty: FAQ on necessary reforms

UN Cybercrime Convention: FAQ on necessary reforms

25 Jan 2024

What is the UN cybercrime convention, what’s wrong with its current draft, and how can you engage with it? Read our FAQ to know.

Guide
UN Cybercrime Convention: FAQ on necessary reforms
25 Jan 2024
UN Cybercrime Convention: FAQ on necessary reforms
ヨルダン国王への公開書簡

Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press

21 Sep 2022

Civil society condemn the new decree-law 54 in in Tunisia and urge the President to withdraw it in order to uphold freedom of expression and press freedom.

Press Release
Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press
21 Sep 2022
Tunisia: President must scrap decree-law undermining free expression and the press
syria surveillance|

Syria’s new “cybercrime” law adds salt to injury

27 May 2022

Syria’s new “cybercrime” law gives a regime notorious for surveilling citizens new powers to violate privacy, silence people, and add a false legal veneer to human rights violations.

Post
Syria’s new “cybercrime” law adds salt to injury
27 May 2022
Syria’s new “cybercrime” law adds salt to injury
ヨルダン国王への公開書簡

Joint statement on the UAE’s adoption of Federal Decree Law No. 34 of 2021 on Combatting Rumours and Cybercrime

25 Jan 2022

Access Now joins a coalition of organization in calling on UAE to immediate repeal or amend the new Law on Combatting Rumours and Cybercrime.

Press Release
Joint statement on the UAE’s adoption of Federal Decree Law No. 34 of 2021 on Combatting Rumours and Cybercrime
25 Jan 2022
Joint statement on the UAE’s adoption of Federal Decree Law No. 34 of 2021 on Combatting Rumours and Cybercrime
|

Why Latin America should protect, not persecute, information security researchers

12 Aug 2021

Information security researchers help keep people safe online, yet they are being persecuted in Latin America when they should be protected.

Post
Why Latin America should protect, not persecute, information security researchers
12 Aug 2021
Why Latin America should protect, not persecute, information security researchers

رسالة مفتوحة إلى مجلس النواب العراقي: لا تجرموا المفاهيم الغامضة والفضفاضة “للجرائم الإلكترونية”.

22 Dec 2020
Press Release
رسالة مفتوحة إلى مجلس النواب العراقي: لا تجرموا المفاهيم الغامضة والفضفاضة “للجرائم الإلكترونية”.
22 Dec 2020
رسالة مفتوحة إلى مجلس النواب العراقي: لا تجرموا المفاهيم الغامضة والفضفاضة “للجرائم الإلكترونية”.

Open letter to the Iraqi Council of Representatives: Don’t criminalise vague definitions of “cybercrimes”

21 Dec 2020
Press Release
Open letter to the Iraqi Council of Representatives: Don’t criminalise vague definitions of “cybercrimes”
21 Dec 2020
Open letter to the Iraqi Council of Representatives: Don’t criminalise vague definitions of “cybercrimes”

These women were jailed for TikTok 🚫 You can help them

14 Oct 2020

At least six women have already been sentenced to jail for their TikTok videos, and now they are fighting their charges on appeal. Help pressure Egyptian authorities to free these women and revoke their sentences.

Post
These women were jailed for TikTok 🚫 You can help them
14 Oct 2020
These women were jailed for TikTok 🚫 You can help them
India fake news

Special Cybercrime Bill in Nicaragua promotes censorship and criminalizes the everyday use of technologies

5 Oct 2020

The signatory organizations are deeply concerned about the legislation, which, if implemented, would seriously undermine human rights; in particular, freedom of expression and access to information, already under threat in Nicaragua, would be compromised.

Press Release
Special Cybercrime Bill in Nicaragua promotes censorship and criminalizes the everyday use of technologies
5 Oct 2020
Special Cybercrime Bill in Nicaragua promotes censorship and criminalizes the everyday use of technologies
UNHRC_Eric Bridiers|

Shutdowns, surveillance, and censorship: UPR reviews highlight threats to digital rights

20 May 2019

We joined our partners to document the human rights records of Egypt, Gambia, Iraq, and Italy.

Post
Shutdowns, surveillance, and censorship: UPR reviews highlight threats to digital rights
20 May 2019
Shutdowns, surveillance, and censorship: UPR reviews highlight threats to digital rights