External Resources
On 11 October 2024, the UK’s High Court ruled that Saudi activist Yahya Assiri can continue his legal challenge against Saudi Arabia for being targeted with spyware while living in the UK. Yahya Assiri is a UK-based human rights defender and founder of the human rights organisation ALQST. A long-time friend of Jamal Khashoggi, the…
Amnesty International has filed an amicus curiae brief to the Bangkok Civil Court on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on the right to privacy, the right to an effective remedy, and human rights due diligence, in relation to the case Jatupat Boonpattararaksa vs. NSO Group Technologies Ltd. View the document…
In July 2024, Amnesty Tech and Amnesty Netherlands hosted an event to explore the intersection of tech, gender, and inequality in Amsterdam. The “Exploring Intersectionality” event brought together more than 80 activists, practitioners and researchers from different organisations working in the technology and human rights field. With digital gender-based violence on the rise and technology…
Responding to a Forbidden Stories-led investigation, supported by the Amnesty International’s Security Lab, on the government of Israel’s attempts to sway WhatsApp’s ongoing US lawsuit against spyware firm NSO Group, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said: “These revelations raise critical concerns about Israel’s regulatory oversight and the impartiality of…
Amnesty International’s Security Lab has launched new features on its website, adding to the existing range of tools, resources and research to support human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members against digital attacks, including spyware. “Targeted surveillance and other digital threats have been used around the world to harass, intimidate, silence and shrink civil society.…
Governments and non-state actors regularly use digital attacks to surveil, harass and intimidate human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, journalists, and other civil society members. Digital attacks can be varied in nature, ranging from malicious software attacks such as spyware, social engineering threats like phishing and impersonation, online harassment and abuse such as gender-based violence, disinformation…
Women and LGBTI activists in Thailand are being subjected to an online onslaught of abusive speech laced with misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic language, sexualized content and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV), Amnesty International said in a new report released today. The report, “Being Ourselves is Too Dangerous” highlights how women and LGBTI activists…
Digital Security Resource Hub Digital resilience and security For other forms of digital attacks, the Security Lab has brought together relevant, free and accessible digital and information security resources. Resources include helplines and helpdesks, digital and information security guides and tools, as well as organisations providing digital risk assessments. We have further lists of local…
The CBP One mobile application is the sole means of seeking asylum in the United States since the Asylum Ban (Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Final Rule) introduced by the Biden Administration on 11 May 2023. Under the Asylum Ban, individuals are required to use the CBP One application to schedule appointments at ports of entry…
Nikole Yanez is a computer scientist by training, and a human rights defender from Honduras. She is passionate about feminism, the impact of the internet and protecting activists. She was first drawn to human rights through her work as a reporter with a local community radio station. After surviving the coup d’état in Honduras in…
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