Digital identification, or digital IDs, have become more common in Asia, with some countries even mandating its use for their citizens. Ho Ming-hsuan writes about the digital ID experiences of Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea – and lists various issues that need to...
EngageMedia invites filmmakers, video journalists, and animators across the Asia-Pacific to produce short films on important digital rights issues happening in our region, as told with our voices and from our perspectives....
On Human Rights Day 2020, the UN called on the world to "Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights". These human rights also extend to the digital space....
Coconet community members reunited online on November 5, 2020, to collectively reflect on the pandemic's challenges not only to digital rights in the region but to civil society as a whole....
In the Indonesia Digital Rights Situation Report 2019: The Rise of Digital Authoritarian, SAFEnet documents the digital rights violations in the country and how these tie to the local, regional, and global contexts. ...
Civil society organisations in Myanmar condemn the unjust arrests of the students, and we demand to immediately release them and urgently drop all the charges made against them....
The Thai government has banned four independent media outlets and a Facebook page from generating and broadcasting any news content under the premise that these organisations pose a major threat to national security. The government’s decision to ban these groups, however, is both misleading and...
Nepali organisation Body and Data is calling on netizens to condemn online harassment against TikTok and Instagram user Nikisha and women and gender and sexual diverse individuals. ...
Today, on the anniversary of the 2006 Thai coup, protesters will once again gather at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, to call for political changes and democratic reforms. Students as young as 14 years old have been at the forefront of the protests, with some groups...
Doublethink Lab summarises the Hong Kong National Security Law and details from a legal perspective how the law affects not only Hong Kong nationals but also individuals and civil society organisations in the region....
