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Governments around the world are clamping down on citizens' fundamental rights, with increased focus on civil liberties in digital spaces. Zainab Durrani highlights how various policy measures taken my governments in South Asia impact universally recognised rights.

The bill titled, Personal Data Protection Bill, 2025, introduces new compliance obligations for local and international businesses while keeping state agencies largely exempt. It claims to align with global data protection laws, improving some aspects through key changes while making others even more draconian than before.

Between March and September 2024, the WRP embarked on a journey of consultation and reflection that required becoming present to the current moment, both within and of our context. What resulted from this process was a strategic framework for our collective work over the next strategic period of 2025-2028 that is dynamic, perpetually responsive to our needs and the needs of our partners, and…

This guide offers practical suggestions for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, especially those living in the global majority world, to remove the violative content while safeguarding their privacy and identity online. It may also be useful for those who support or accompany victim-survivors. This guide contains two parts.

This guide offers practical suggestions for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, especially those living in the global majority world, to remove the violative content while safeguarding their privacy and identity online. It may also be useful for those who support or accompany victim-survivors. This guide contains two parts.

The Pakistan government is setting up an invasive surveillance regime that the highest courts in the country have already deemed unconstitutional.

The impact of digital censorship and attacks on freedom of speech in the US have a direct impact in developing countries where authoritarian governments look at the countries in the West for policymaking frameworks.

Regulating new digital dangers can be challenging. This is especially true when they are unforeseeable at the time of drafting the policy. Aitana Garcia Domingo explores two policy designs that can potentially help in countering tech-facilitated violence, and discusses limitations that both these designs pose to their successful implementation.

Against much uproar from the transgender community, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 was enacted by the Government of India in December 2019 to recognise and protect the rights of transgender persons. Opposition from the transgender community was due to several problematic provisions in the statute including the demand for surgical intervention…

In this piece, as a way of forward looking and forging a radical possibilities, FIRN team has compiled evidence based research recommendations for multiple stakeholders in this field to recognise, address, and prevent online gender based violence across our communities. We also invite these stakeholders to reimagine and reconstruct an internet that is a safe place for all people, especially…