The African Centre for Democracy and Human Right Studies (ACDHRS) is now accepting applications for participation in a training workshop on accessing regional and international human rights mechanisms. The ACDHRS is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes human rights and democracy issues in the African continent through training, advocacy, networking, and action-oriented research. The training…
On July 10, 2016, human rights defender and independent political analyst, Kem Ley, was murdered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Ley is the founder of the grassroots organization Khmer for Khmer, and was murdered days after speaking with Radio Free Asia about a recent Global Witness report that documented the corruption of the Prime Minister of…
The Myanmar Motion Picture Organization – Burma’s film censorship board – banned the film, Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess in Rangoon, because it could allegedly “damage the ethnic unity of the state.” The movie, which was slated to be the opening film for the Human Rights Human Dignity film festival,…
Citizen Lab senior researchers Bill Marczak and John Scott-Railton’s released their new report, “Be Calm and (Don’t) Enable Macros: Malware Sent to UK Journalists Exposes New Threat Actor Targeting UAE Dissidents.” The operator behind the digital attacks featured in the report is named “Stealth Falcon” and by his level of sophistication is consistent with a…