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Against the backdrop of deteriorating internet freedom across the region, attendees collaborated to share knowledge, build skills, and develop strategies for digital resilience. The vibrant exchange of ideas revealed several interconnected themes that highlighted both the challenges facing the regional digital rights community and the creative, community-led responses emerging to address them.

A critical step towards building a comprehensive understanding of how human rights defenders (HRDs) across Asia-Pacific access, use, and experience digital technology designed to protect them

Global platforms, such as Meta, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and Telegram, have faced widespread criticisms for facilitating authoritarian repression of dissident voices, especially in the Global South...

Across the Asia-Pacific, gig workers employed by digital platforms are increasingly vulnerable to rights abuses, often hired without the benefits and protections offered by more traditional employment, facing constant job precarity due to unpredictable algorithms and ratings, and with limited recourse to enforce their right to decent work...

Join this interactive session on March 14 to learn more about the DRAPAC VPN project and how to use Outline VPN as a tool for circumventing internet censorship and online surveillance.

The latest edition of Tech Tales Youth showcases powerful stories about digital rights from Malaysia and Bangladesh, produced by young filmmakers.

At RIghtsCon 2025, EngageMedia will be part of an online discussion analysing how Myanmar's cyber law affects civil society, the private sector, and Myanmar’s overall cyber stability.

Arrests of dissenters, surveillance, and mobile and internet shutdowns – which the junta continues to use as a tactical weapon – were among the digital repression incidents reported in Myanmar four years since the coup.