The Foundation for Media Alternatives, a Coconet community member, has published a new report, “State of the Digital Nation: The Digital Rights Report 2020”, that documents how human rights were impacted by technology and digital innovations in the country. The report is based on findings...
Since July 2020, the independent news organisation New Naratif has been under attack by the Singaporean government in for allegedly breaking the Parliamentary Elections Act by boosting elections-related Facebook posts containing during the previous Singaporean election. New Naratif has stated that, "the Prime Minister’s Office...
This statement by civil society organisations in Myanmar was originally published in Free Expression Myanmar, a Coconet community member, on February 11, 2021. It has been republished here with permission. For more timely updates on #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar, check out and follow the Twitter accounts of Coconet...
Free Expression Myanmar analyses how and why the military's draft Cyber Security Law poses risks to human and digital rights to the people of Myanmar....
In support of the people of Myanmar protesting against the human and digital rights violations by the military, civil society organisations working in Myanmar or on Myanmar issues have published on Gitlab a list of digital security and safety resources in the Burmese language....
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 Authoritarianism, SAFEnet documents the digital rights violations in the country and how these tie to the local, regional, and global contexts. ...
