Activate Rights is a nonprofit initiative focuses on promoting awareness regarding Digital Privacy, Data Rights, and Internet Freedom among Youth.
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📢 @OpenTechFund's 2026 Information Controls Research Program, supporting researchers tackling internet #censorship & #surveillance, is accepting applications. As one of the host organizations, we welcome proposals.
Learn more and apply by September 7, 2026:
citizenlab.ca/call-for-appli…
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In DRAPAC26, Body & Data, @activate_rights, Digi Paila Initiative, and @Stoponlineharm came together to conduct a workshop “Designing Feminist Digital Futures: From Harm to Collective Imagination”. This workshop was focused on conversations on AI, technology-facilitated gender-
ALT A social media graphic with a yellow background introduces the workshop “Designing Feminist Digital Futures: From Harm to Collective Imagination,” held on 10 June 2026. The slide lists facilitators from Digi Paila Initiative, Activate Rights, Stop Online Harm, and Body & Data. The second image shows six workshop facilitators standing in front of a presentation screen displaying the workshop title.
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1/3 Today, I will present my new report to the UN Human Rights Council. Its message: digital surveillance is silencing activists and civil society worldwide, and it has to stop. 🧵 #UnmaskingSurveillance #HumanRights
ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…
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Coordinated false copyright claims targeted Bangladeshi archivists, journalists, and activists, exploiting Meta’s reporting system to remove evidence of abuses, disrupt documentation efforts, and undermine accountability linked to July 2024 uprising. globalvoices.org/2026/05/06/…
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Despite RightsCon’s cancellation, our panel goes ahead on May 7.
@rightscon 2026 has been cancelled after the Zambian government blocked the conference days before it was set to begin.
We stand in solidarity with organizers, speakers, and attendees affected by this decision.
Our panel discussion, originally planned for RightsCon, will go ahead virtually on May 7 as planned. Some conversations can’t be postponed.
Register here: csohate.org/event/south-asia…
This #RightsCon, Activate Rights will be presenting and facilitating a session on shutdown documentation, information integrity, and circumvention tech. Catch us if you'll be around! 👋
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Network control is increasingly shaping how connectivity is governed, disrupted, and experienced across Africa and beyond.
@FelAnthonio is joining SplinterCon to explore shutdowns, network control tech, and resilience efforts across the region.
splintercon.net/events/right…
ALT Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Global Campaign Manager at Access Now. When Repression Meets Resistance: A Decade of Fighting Internet Shutdowns Globally.
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Join CSOH at RightsCon 2026 for an event bringing together civil society organizations and experts from across South Asia to examine the structural and political drivers of disinformation, the role of platforms in enabling it, and its cross-border consequences.
The discussion will focus on collaborative strategies to mitigate disinformation before it escalates into violence or diplomatic crises, and on promoting regional cooperation in a part of the world too often defined by conflict and mistrust.
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#Misinformation #Disinformation #southasia #India #Bangladesh #srilanka #pakistan
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After the 2024 uprising, Bangladesh faced an unprecedented wave of disinformation, much of it originating from across the border.
In this interview, @activate_rights co-founder Shoeb Abdullah explains how industrial-scale disinformation shaped Bangladesh's post-uprising crisis, endangered minorities, overwhelmed civil society, and exposed the failure of platforms to respond.
Read the full interview: csohate.org/2026/03/19/bangl…
#bangaldesh #Disinformation
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A United Nations Women poll found that 58 percent of girls and young women have experienced at least one form of online harassment, often before they turn twenty-five. globalvoices.org/2025/08/01/…
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The Asian Network for Free Elections (@Anfrel) presented in a press briefing the interim findings of its international election observation mission to the 2026 #Bangladesh Parliamentary #Elections and Referendum today, 15 February 2026.
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An Open Letter to Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh: After 18 months under the leadership of an interim government, we, the Human Rights Foundation, along with @activate_rights, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Ahmedur Chowdhury, @article19org, @FortifyRights, @forum_asia, and @hrssbd call on @Yunus_Centre to ensure that the upcoming elections, slated to take place on Feb. 12, remains free and fair.
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Ahead of #Bangladesh’s 2026 general election and the July Charter Referendum, young people are coming together to speak about the future they want to see. This video captures their hopes for a Bangladesh where justice is not a privilege, but a baseline.
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CSOH participated in the Archive and Resist Conclave held from January 24 - 27 in Cox’s Bazar and Dhaka, Bangladesh.
At the Dhaka convening, Ammaarah Nilafdeen, CSOH Researcher and Partnerships Lead, delivered remarks at the opening plenary organized by @UNDP_BD on the role of research and documentation in strengthening transitional justice mechanisms, drawing on lessons from Sri Lanka.
CSOH also facilitated a side session led by our Executive Director Raqib Naik and Ammaarah Nilafdeen, engaging participants on how research and documentation can strengthen efforts to track and counter organized hate in Bangladesh and across South Asia.
The Conclave was co-convened by @activate_rights, Bangladesh Protest Archive, and @witnessorg.
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On 27th January, we were part of the @activate_rights' Archive and Resist Conclave speaking on the act of archiving the use of less-lethal weapons.
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📣Call For Participants
🗓️Application deadline: 13 Nov 2025
✅forms.gle/zn2ktq9jxHsFc8LEA
Together with @activate.rights, we're convening a 2-day workshop bringing together youth human rights defenders to reflect on the 2024 student-led uprising in Bangladesh — what it revealed, what it changed, and what remains to be resolved.
Through conversations, creative exercises, and storytelling, participants will explore how movements endure — and how collective memory can inspire civic futures grounded in rights, participation, & solidarity.
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Tanzania’s five-day election internet shutdown silenced dissent and blocked transparency — the longest in the country’s history.
Democracy can’t exist in digital darkness. #KeepItOn ⬇️
context.news/digital-rights/…
Not your average hackathon. Build for Bangladesh’s democratic future with bold, lasting ideas. 💡
Register by Nov 20, 2025, for a shot at BDT 5 lakh!
Apply now: forms.gle/RxKXbRqzAzNaPW7i9
Info: build4democracy.com/
