Bytes for All (B4A)

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The UN-HRC chamber, Geneva, Switzerland., Getty Images

HRC 36: Secure digital communications are essential for human rights

A joint statement by the Association of Progressive Communications, IFEX and 64 co-signatories at the UN-HRC 36 warns of the threat to human rights posed by recent attacks on the right to use encryption technology, in Turkey and across the globe.

Kem Ley, 4 June, 2016, AP/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pressure mounts on Cambodia a year after Kem Ley’s killing

On the one-year anniversary of the death of popular Cambodian activist Kem Ley, civil society organisations from around the world reiterated their call for an independent inquiry.

People wait in line to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned to register for the government identity card outside the NADRA office in Islamabad, Pakistan, 14 November 2012, REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Pakistan government’s alleged leaking of citizens’ private data is unacceptable

A recent Wikileaks revelation has reinforced the longstanding concerns of Bytes for All about insufficient data protection mechanisms available for safekeeping of Pakistani citizens’ private data.

Yameen Rasheed's family submit a petition to Maldives Police Services to investigate his murder., Dying Regime on Flickr

What’s next for the Maldives after Yameen Rasheed?

Bytes for All looks at what changes need to occur to improve free expression in the Maldives and put an end to the murders of Maldivian dissenters.

People gather to condemn the killing of university student Mashal Khan during a protest in Peshawar, Pakistan, 20 April 2017, REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

The month in Asia Pacific in three minutes

A tragic murder in the Maldives shakes the world, India and Malaysia’s digital crackdown, and Yance Wenda gets beaten up covering…World Press Freedom Day protests.

REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

Hungary’s academic freedom and expression at risk due to changes to education law

IFEX members call on EU officials to condemn Hungary’s attack on the Central European University as a threat to academic freedom and free expression.

Activists protest against the killing of student Mashal Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, 14 April 2017, AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad

Religious intolerance and impunity nurture killing fields in Pakistan

B4A, APC and FORUM-ASIA strongly condemn the gruesome killing of 23-year-old Mashal Khan by a vigilante mob at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan for purported blasphemy.

Protestors in Mexico City hold up signs demanding justice for slain journalist Miroslava Breach, Associated Press/ Eduardo Verdugo

Spike in journalist killings in Mexico spurs international calls for justice

IFEX members around the world denounce the alarming rate of journalist murders in Mexico and demand a thorough evaluation of existing protection mechanisms.