>>> Call for proposals: GISWatch 2026 special edition with #SafetyforVoices
This special edition of #Giswatch will explore the critical intersection of technology, safety and human rights activism through the lens of women human rights defenders.
https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-proposals-giswatch-2026-special-edition-safety-voices
>>>> What was the impact of the APC network in the past year?
We helped women human rights defenders #WHRDs work safely online, strengthened their networks and centred their concerns in policy spaces.
Through our work with #SafetyforVoices, we impacted nearly 1,000 women across 48 countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa.
-----> Check out this video for more highlights on #APC2024 #DigitalSafety #DigitalCare #DigitalResilience
“We’re in survival mode”: Women human rights defenders on digital repression and movement sustainability
----> New piece on APC.org:
Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) have long been at the centre of struggles for justice, democracy, and freedom – from resisting authoritarianism and defending land to advancing gender rights and digital freedoms, benefiting entire communities. Yet these very defenders are systematically targeted and under-resourced in the current realities of the world as repression fuelled by authoritarianism and the surge in anti-rights narratives are steadily rising.
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>>> Across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the SWANA region, women human rights defenders #WHRDs are navigating intensifying digital repression, conflicts, genocides and shrinking civic spaces.
----> We're hosting a cross-regional conversation under APC’s #SafetyforVoices Initiative where WHRDs, feminist researchers, technologists and activists will share lived realities and strategies of resilience, and will envision a sustainable future for our movements.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@APC/115247812364147772
----> Join us tomorrow on #DigitalRepression and #WHRDs:
>>> Are you interested in tackling digital repression and ensuring safety of women human rights defenders?
Join our webinar this Wednesday, 24 September 👇
https://www.apc.org/en/event/webinar-digital-repression-whrds-safety-and-movements-sustainability
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