Tag: UN
Update: internet access, censorship, and the Myanmar coup
The Myanmar military is consolidating control over the telecom sector, expanding surveillance and invading privacy. The telecom sector must push back.
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Open letter to the Prime Minister of Norway: stop the sale of Telenor Myanmar to M1 Group
We write to the Prime Minister of Norway on behalf of 168 organisations in Myanmar to express our grave concern regarding the sale of Telenor Myanmar to M1 Group.
UNGA76 Side Event: The digital surveillance crisis and threats to human rights defenders
This October 21, 2021 event discussed how states, facilitated by private companies, are unlawfully deploying targeted surveillance technologies against civil society around the world.
Coalition Letter to the 48th U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on Pegasus
We call on U.N. Human Rights Council to take urgent action to denounce the human rights violations facilitated by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
Act now against spyware, coalition tells U.N. Human Rights Council
As the U.N. Human Rights Council convenes, Access Now is urging member states to denounce abuses facilitated by spyware technologies.
Civic freedoms must be upheld at Singapore UPR
Today, as Singapore is due to adopt outcomes from Universal Periodic Review, Access Now is calling for an end undue restrictions on fundamental freedoms.
#WhyID: international actors in Afghanistan must clean up, restrict dangerous biometric trail
#WhyID: Access Now and civil society is calling on international actors to take immediate action to restrict and secure biometric data in Afghanistan.
Internet shutdowns now ‘entrenched’ in certain regions, rights council hears
100+ organizations call for U.N. action on human rights abuses in Egypt
Civil society is calling for collective action at the 46th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to establish a monitoring and reporting mechanism on the human rights situation in Egypt.