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Journalist Ravish Kumar (2nd from the right) appears with other panelists during a book launch in New Delhi, India, 4 June 2016; Kumar and others have said they face crippling levels of online hate and harassment, Parveen Negi/India Today Group/Getty Images

Open letter to messaging apps urging platform changes to protect users

Civil society groups write about their concern over the handling of group messages by online messaging services.

Supporters of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) rally as they carry bodies of protesters who were killed in clashes with security forces on Saturday, in Darjeeling, India, 18 June 2017, REUTERS/Stringer

Internet ban in Darjeeling, India: Three months and counting

Since June 20, 2017, the internet ban – initiated following protests for a separate Gorkhaland – has been extended several times by the district administration, and there is little hope of it being restored in the near future.

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.

A villager has his fingerprint scanned for the Unique Identification (UID) database system, also known as Aadhaar, at an enrolment centre in the state of Rajasthan, India, 22 February 2013, REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal

India: Supreme Court holds that right to privacy is a fundamental right

The nine-judge bench unanimously held that Right To Privacy is protected under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantees right to life.

Detained Cambodian land activist, Tep Vanny, center, from the Boeung Kak lake community is escorted by court security during a hearing at Appeals Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015., ASSOCIATED PRESS

One Year On: Cambodia must immediately release Tep Vanny

67 NGOs call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender Tep Vanny on the one-year anniversary of her detention.

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.