🤔 Is the #CADE Digital Rights Exchange Programme for you? Join our Q&A session and ask your questions! 🗓️ Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:30 UTC 🗣️ Session in English, with interpretation available in Spanish and French ✏️ Sign up: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DigitalRights #AIGovernance

📽️ How does #GenAI affect your rights? Watch this #refrAIme video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5JA...

What does the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance mean for civil society? ICNL's Zach Lampell answers five key questions on AI governance, human rights, and why civil society must have a seat at the table. Read the Q&A: www.icnl.org/post/news/fi...

🌍️ Apply for the #CADE Digital Rights Exchange Programme! @forusinternational.bsky.social 💡 Unique opportunity for pairs of CSOs from the Global North/Global Majority to create joint strategy for a shared #digital challenge. 📅 DDL: 2 August www.forus-international.org/en/campaign/...

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The Digital Rights Exchange Programme led by Forus and ECNL under the CADE initiative, invites three pairs of civil society organisations—bringing together one organisation from the Global North and one from the Global South —to collaborate in person for a focused, three-day exchange on a shared dig

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📢 We are #hiring a Finance Officer for our EU-funded Projects. Are you a finance professional with experience managing EU projects? We'd love to hear from you! 👇️ Learn more and apply here today: ecnl.org/openings #FinanceJobs #FinanceOfficer #GrantManagement #EUFunding #NonprofitJobs #Vacancy

🌈 #Hungary can celebrate #Pride again — but the laws that criminalise Pride participation and enable biometric #surveillance of protesters remain in force. They must go. Read new op-ed from ECNL, @liberties.eu and Edri colleagues in @euobserver.com : euobserver.com/224022/budap...

Budapest free to celebrate Pride again, but Orbán-surveillance machine still in place

Large trucks equipped with biometric cameras were stationed around last year's Budapest Pride march to discourage participation. The objective was not only punishment, but deterrence. Despite the new…

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Large trucks equipped with biometric cameras were stationed around last year's Budapest Pride march to discourage participation. The objective was not only punishment, but deterrence. Despite the new government, this logic remains embedded in Hungarian law today.

🌎💚#ClimateAction is stronger when the voices of those on the front lines are heard. 💡 The #LEAD event during #LondonClimateActionWeek highlighted how governments, funders, and civil society all have a role in making this happen. 🟢 Learn more and support LEAD's cause: lead-initiative.com

💫 How might emerging social, technological, political, and behavioral shifts reshape democracy & how can civil society adapt to defend rights? Join our workshop on the future of democratic participation. 📅2 July 2026, 10:30 CET Free registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ParticipationMatters

The world's strongest regional human rights system is being tested from inside ⚖️ This week, we at @faultlinenotes.bsky.social stay with the Council of Europe📍 Can @coe.int and does it still want to answer democratic backsliding by its own members and protect the human rights defenders? ⤵️

🚨 New @cloudflare.social report on cyberattacks finds that civil society organizations are targeted more frequently, and often with more sophisticated attacks, than other Internet users: blog.cloudflare.com/celebrating-...

👁️ Digital surveillance is silencing voices around the world. Permanent monitoring of citizens, activists, and HHRR defenders creates a "chilling effect": people self-censor, abandon solidarity networks, and stop organising because they know they are being watched. indepthnews.net/constant-dig...

Constant Digital Monitoring Is Quieting Public Voices Worldwide

By Gina Romero* BOGOTA, Colombia | 15 June 2026 (IDN) — The modern digital world we live in today is characterised by an interconnected, massive network of monitoring tools—a surveillance ecosystem. G...

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❗"If #AI fails LGBTQ people, it fails everyone." This important new GLAAD report documents the harms that AI is causing to the LGBTQ community. The harms are not inevitable - but the result of choices that companies make. 💡 The report outlines what the AI industry must do differently.

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Today GLAAD released “Build for Everyone,” our first comprehensive report on LGBTQ Responsible AI. It’s a roadmap for building AI that actually works for LGBTQ people — and everyone: glaad.org/2026-ai-repo...

A recent OGP Europe Dialogue brought together experts from @ecnl.bsky.social, the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social, the fra.europa.eu, and national governments to discuss the state of civic space and what can be done to reverse current trends.

Human rights advocates on environmental issues give communities a say and help build equitable, just, democratic societies, writes Sharan Srinivas. He calls for donors to redouble support for local organizations: www.justsecurity.org/141453/prote...

Protecting Environmental Rights Defenders Is Key to Giving Communities a Voice

Environmental human rights defenders must be empowered to design and implement their own forms of collective protection.

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NEW BRIEFING📣 Russia's latest amendments to its Code on Administrative Offenses significantly expand the state's ability to pursue individuals and organizations outside the country. 👁️ Learn more about key provisions of the law & potential implications: www.icnl.org/post/analysi...

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Now more than ever, the rule of law matters. It protects everyday life by ensuring fair rules & accountability – from home rentals to job contracts or public speech. As the rule of law comes under pressure, we must protect it to ensure people’s rights are respected. 🔗https://link.europa.eu/7MHF6T

#Hungary's new government opens space for civil society recovery. Márta Pardavi warns: ensuring restoration is genuine and inclusive will take sustained effort. Read more: web.civicus.org/Marta_Pardavi #CIVICUSLens

💡 Can AI innovation benefit society? 📽️ Check out this new video explainer by #RefrAIme initiative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5UN...

REFRAIME - Can AI innovation benefit society

This video discusses how human-centric AI innovation benefits society. It is the tenth and last video of the REFRAIME Quiz Game https://refraime.csd.eu. This video is in English. This video was…

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💻 Digital transnational repression is changing how gov'ts monitor, intimidate & silence people across borders - from diaspora communities to journos. AI is becoming a powerful tool for control. Read more in our Tech Policy Press blog on the tools & policy gaps: www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-is-po...

👥People with disabilities must be represented in EU decision-making. Today, ‘The Power of Many’ brings a story from Pierre Gyselinck, President of the Belgian Disability Forum. Learn more about our ‘Voices of Millions campaign’ here: bit.ly/4tqscgh #VoicesOfMillions #ThePowerOfMany #EUCivilSociety

Across Eurasia, civic space is under growing pressure. ICNL has freshly updated key Civic Freedom Monitor pages tracking legal and regulatory developments affecting civil society across the region. 🙌The updated pages cover #Belarus, #Russia, #Kyrgyzstan, #Kazakhstan, #Uzbekistan, and #Tajikistan

Read my statement after a visit to Serbia focused on freedom of expression, inc. media freedom, the right to peaceful assembly, and the protection of civic space. #HumanRights 👇 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Serbia: Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights observes deteriorating human rights situation - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

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Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms and the policy gaps.

How AI is Powering Transnational Repression

AI enables unprecedented levels of monitoring, profiling, and targeting across borders, write Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak.

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🎙️ New #podcast by ECNL and TAI: Let’s rethink #resilience 💡 Hear from civil society leaders from Ukraine, Serbia, Kenya, Brazil and the global human rights field on what resilience means to them. 🎧 Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0eFN...

💡 Want to learn more about AI agents? 📽️ Check out this new video by #RefrAIme initiative on how they affect fundamental rights:

REFRAIME - When AI Agents Impact Your Rights

This video covers AI agents and their impact on fundamental rights. It is the seventh video of the REFRAIME Quiz Game https://refraime.csd.eu. This video is in English. This video was developed as…

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*1/3*🧵 Zambia's last-minute "postponement" of RightsCon is a de facto cancellation, a deliberate obstruction of a critical assembly for the global digital rights community. 🔗 ohchr.org/en/statements/2026/05/zambia-rightscon #Zambia #HumanRights #CivicSpace

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Voices from conflict zones on World Press Freedom DayRead the story

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⚠️ Across Europe, powerful actors are still using legal threats to silence journalists, activists and watchdogs. The EU has a law to stop these abuses - now governments need to include those protections in their national laws. ✍️ Sign this new #antiSLAPP campaign: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...

Protect people, not corporate bullies

The powerful always get what they want, right? Not if our governments finally start protecting people, instead of corporate bullies. A law to shield the people speaking up against injustices is ready....

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🔴 GNI joins a chorus of individuals and organizations expressing shock and deep disappointment at the Government of Zambia’s unilateral decision to “postpone” #RightsCon2026. We are appalled by the timing of this decision & the manner in which it was made: globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-condemns...

GNI Condemns the Postponement of RightsCon 2026 by the Zambian Government - Global Network Initiative

The ripple effects of this postponement will be felt across the global digital rights community for a long time.

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