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Families have asked Trump to declassify records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the 2001 attacks

In late 2025, prisons in Türkiye became more visible than they had been in a long time. The 11th Judicial Package, a legislative reform that became law in December, was debated for days on television, in newspapers, and on social media. Sentencing regulations, claims of early release, and changes to the penal system were at the forefront of public discourse. However, as the debates intensified, another issue came to light: Many people discussing the same topic did not actually have the same information.

DUE: 6 November, 2026 The Endangered Archives Programme offers grants to support the identification, preservation, and digitisation of archival materials that are at risk of loss or destruction. The programme supports projects that protect important documentary heritage and make archival collections more accessible for research and public benefit.

This landscape report examines how misinformation, disinformation and other forms of information pollution are affecting climate action and responses to climate-related disasters, and how different actors are responding. It draws on a mapping of several hundred information integrity interventions across thematic areas, including almost fifty focused specifically on climate change and climate-related disasters, to identify patterns in the types of challenges addressed, approaches and strategies deployed, and actors involved.

The Philippines’ House of Representatives has approved the Digital Media Anti-False Information Act, which would criminalise the deliberate creation and spread of false information deemed to cause public harm or threaten national security. Its supporters describe it as a tool against disinformation and foreign interference, but civil society warns that vague definitions leave it open to being used to silence dissent. The bill now awaits Senate approval.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the documents, drawn from daily intelligence briefings to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, “the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever.”

Kenya’s youth uprising was documented in real time through music, murals, memes, and essays. Publishing that history became an act of resistance in its own right.

As public air monitors disappear, federal rollbacks and state laws are making it harder than ever to know what’s in the air

As enforced disappearances and other human rights atrocities continue in Myanmar, there is a great deal that can and must be done to address these cases with a view to bringing justice to victims and their survivors, according to participants at a webinar convened on 28 August 2026 by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). The event, on “the Right to Know the Truth: Remembering Victims of Enforced Disappearance in Myanmar,” held just ahead of the 30 August International Day of the...

On 7 September UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, warned that any large-scale removal of rubble in Gaza could lead to the destruction of evidence of “atrocity crimes,” including “genocide,” – as reports have suggested – and that any state or company supporting the destruction or removal “could incur international criminal responsibility in connection to those crimes.”

On 7 September UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, warned that any large-scale removal of rubble in Gaza could lead to the destruction of evidence of “atrocity crimes,” including “genocide,” – as reports have suggested – and that any state or company supporting the destruction or removal “could incur international criminal responsibility in connection to those crimes.”

On 26 August 2026, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Italy-based digital service and infrastructure provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I), designating the collective a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). ARTICLE 19 warns that such action against an infrastructure provider violates international freedom of expression standards and sets a dangerous precedent.

The multi-decade information embargoes are a supreme slap in the public's face to be unable to get such records in our lifetimes.

In a proposed rule published in the Federal Register, the Census Bureau also announced it was considering changes to the data it collects about race and ethnicity, amid the Trump administration’s push to rid the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Conducted decennially, the census historically counts the “whole number of persons” in the United States specified in the 14th amendment, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. The data is used by states to draw...

Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has transferred newly declassified Soviet secret service documents to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, offering researchers additional evidence about the Polish-Ukrainian conflict while emphasizing the need for critical source analysis.

Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has transferred newly declassified Soviet secret service documents to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, offering researchers additional evidence about the Polish-Ukrainian conflict while emphasizing the need for critical source analysis.

Indigenous leaders say the US government’s decision to close the sites was made without tribal consultation.

After years of negotiations, a British museum has agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent. “We bring back the light of our ancestors that was dimmed but never extinguished,” said Ellen Konyak of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation in making the announcement. The nonprofit forum worked with the museum, which has the world’s largest collection of Naga cultural objects, and Naga tribal groups on the repatriation effort.

After years of negotiations, a British museum has agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent. “We bring back the light of our ancestors that was dimmed but never extinguished,” said Ellen Konyak of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation in making the announcement. The nonprofit forum worked with the museum, which has the world’s largest collection of Naga cultural objects, and Naga tribal groups on the repatriation effort.

The documents bolster allegations that the Sudanese military developed and used toxic bombs to gain an edge in the country’s devastating civil war. Much of the dossier — nearly 150 documents, images, videos, and voice notes, as well as several thousand text messages — appears to come from the cellphones of senior Sudanese officers. It was provided on the condition that its source not be identified.