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[CLOSED] Call for proposals: GISWatch 2026 special edition with Safety for Voices
This document tells you how to contribute a country report proposal for the 2026 special edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). It also provides background on the Safety for Voices project, details the themes of the special edition, and tells you more about the process of contributing country reports. Deadline: January 15, 2026
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More Than a Blackout: How RSF’s Digital Warfare Targets Sudan’s Women Defenders and Activists
From women’s centres gone dark to mass displacement and starvation, the human toll of Sudan’s digital siege has been devastating and unreported—yet there is fierce determination from women on the ground to organize and stay connected.
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For women activists, Venezuela is a laboratory of repression, but also resistance
In a web of chaos and control, where media, technology, and legislation is weaponised to carry out mass surveillance, criminalise dissent, cancel passports and restrict news, women human rights defenders lead and participate in creative ways to resist.
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A Centuries-old Indigenous Trans Community in Pakistan is Being Attacked by Global Anti-Trans Hate
A community once linked to saints is being violently attacked locally with language and tech borrowed from U.S. anti-trans activists.
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How India Weaponises Kashmiris Against Kashmiris
In one of the world’s most densely militarised zones, surveillance is not just omnipresent, but is forcefully outsourced to its very own residents—deepening gendered repression and placing women defenders under a digital microscope.
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Weaponised Surveillance: Ethiopia’s Digital War on Women Human Rights Defenders
Surveillance in Ethiopia has evolved beyond a mere function of the state—it has become a central strategy of governance.
