Cash Working Group Legal Task Force Presentation on Data Protection - Dobra Fabryka Ukraina (ReliefWeb, 2025)
The protection of personal data is not merely a technical requirement—it is a core principle of humanitarian action, aligned with both humanitarian standards and legal obligations. Ensuring robust data protection helps prevent these risks, safeguarding the lives of beneficiaries and upholding their right to safety and dignity. It also helps prevent discrimination and exploitation by ensuring fair and respectful humanitarian response that upholds beneficiary confidentiality and adheres to humanitarian principles.
Ukraine

Documenting humanity - Nappier, Terri (The Source, 2025)
For nearly 60 years, Chicago-based Kartemquin Films has been reeling viewers in by spotlighting difficult social and political issues, including immigration, labor issues, stem-cell research and women’s rights. After four years of intensive work, WashU’s Film & Media Archive is making the company’s extensive archive of materials, dating from 1966 to 2008, accessible to scholars and the public.
United States of America

India’s war on books attempts to erase the violent atrocities committed on Kashmir - Nasir Qadri (TRT Global, 2025)
The Modi-led government’s ban on 25 books related to the Muslim-majority region is aimed at burying the tortured history of a land under occupation.
Southern Asia

Digital spaces for the Quechua language: safety and inclusion online - Rising Voices (Global Voices, 2025)
As digital content in the Quechua language continues to become increasingly available, Quechua-speaking communities are gaining more opportunities to better represent themselves online and connect across geographic divides. However, as this content grows, so do the challenges in ensuring that these digital spaces are inclusive, safe, and representative, including through content moderation on social media.
Americas

Cambodia takes control of its war crimes legacy - Andre Kwok (Lowy Institute, 2025)
The transformation of a hybrid court into a domestic institution offers lessons for localising international justice.
Cambodia

Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territory
India
Keywords: Arundhati Roy; Books; Censorship; Culture; Freedom of speech; India; Kashmir; Narendra Modi; South and central Asia; World news

How Burkina Faso’s strongman became the Indo-Pacific’s unlikely hero – and other tales of disinformation - Jennifer Williams, Nava Nuraniyah, Jordon Borg, Julian Droogan (Lowy Institute, 2025)
Digital disciples are spreading false narratives in an effort to exploit anti-Western sentiment across the region.
Burkina Faso

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure - Walid El Houri (Global Voices, 2025)
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
Israel

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure - Walid El Houri (Global Voices, 2025)
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF?
Israel
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Edinburgh festival 2025; Edinburgh film festival; Film; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Palestinian territories; Photography; War reporting; World news

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
Fatma Hassona used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF?
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Edinburgh festival 2025; Edinburgh film festival; Film; Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Palestinian territories; Photography; War reporting; World news

China Turns to A.I. in Information Warfare - Julian E. Barnes (The New York Times, 2025)
Documents examined by researchers show how one company in China has collected data on members of Congress and other influential Americans.
China
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; China; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Espionage and Intelligence Services; GoLaxy; Propaganda; Research; Social Media; Trump; Donald J; United States Defense and Military Forces; United States International Relations; United States Politics and Government; Vanderbilt University

‘Women’s bodies exploited at an unprecedented scale’: Chinese censors failing to deal with deepfakes and hidden cameras, say activists - Lau, Jessie (The Guardian, 2025)
Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics say
China
Keywords: Asia Pacific; China; Global development; Surveillance; World news

Secret plan to liberate Channel Islands found in dusty box - Silver, Jack (BBC, 2025)
A copy of the plan sets out the successful British plan to liberate the Channel Islands during WW2.
United Kingdom

Charleston’s Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giants Is Dismissed - Zraick, Karen (The New York Times, 2025)
The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.
United States of America
Keywords: Charleston (SC); Compensation for Damages (Law); Decisions and Verdicts; Federal-State Relations (US); Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; South Carolina

#IPIArchive: The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons - . (ipi.media, 2025)
Opening the IPI's archive is not just for preservation, but the first step toward creating a digital press freedom commons for the public good.
Worldwide

Building India-Pakistan Cross-Border Solidarity by using alternate media tools - Patel, Dipa (LSE International Development, 2025)
MSc Health and International Development candidate, Anzal Abbas explores how digital and alternative media platforms can enable ordinary citizens of India and Pakistan to bypass nationalist narratives, build cross-border solidarity, and foster peace through dialogue, cultural exchange, and collective action, despite longstanding political tensions.
India

Building India-Pakistan Cross-Border Solidarity by using alternate media tools - Patel, Dipa (LSE International Development, 2025)
MSc Health and International Development candidate, Anzal Abbas explores how digital and alternative media platforms can enable ordinary citizens of India and Pakistan to bypass nationalist narratives, build cross-border solidarity, and foster peace through dialogue, cultural exchange, and collective action, despite longstanding political tensions.
Pakistan

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities - Allam, Lorena; Collard, Sarah; Archibald-Binge, Ella (The Guardian, 2025)
Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a code hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent Western Australian pastoralist Major Logue.
Australia
Keywords: Australia; Colonialism; Frontier wars; Indigenous Australians; Murder; Rural Australia; Western Australia

A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds - Dimapur, Pragati K. B. Reporting from; Nagaland; India, in (The New York Times, 2025)
An Oxford museum’s collection of objects taken from the Naga people includes human remains. What to do with them now is not a simple matter.
India
Keywords: Arts and Antiquities Looting; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; India; Indigenous People; Museums; Nagaland (India); Pitt Rivers Museum; Secession and Independence Movements

Spain to Declassify Secret Archives: Morocco Awaits Revelations on Western Sahara - Faouzi, Adil (Morocco World News, 2025)
Spain’s government has approved a groundbreaking draft law on Classified Information that will replace the Franco-era Official Secrets law of 1968.
Morocco

Spain to Declassify Secret Archives: Morocco Awaits Revelations on Western Sahara - Faouzi, Adil (Morocco World News, 2025)
Spain’s government has approved a groundbreaking draft law on Classified Information that will replace the Franco-era Official Secrets law of 1968.
Spain

Israel closes down or leaves unresolved 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse – report - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
Israel
Keywords: Human rights; International law; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; War crimes; West Bank; World news

Israel closes down or leaves unresolved 88% of cases of alleged war crimes or abuse – report - Sabbagh, Dan (The Guardian, 2025)
Conflict monitoring group Action on Armed Violence says Israel is seeking to create a ‘pattern of impunity’
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)
Keywords: Human rights; International law; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; War crimes; West Bank; World news

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation - Noor, Dharna; Milman, Oliver (The Guardian, 2025)
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
United States of America
Keywords: Climate crisis; Environment; Science; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia - Watson, William E. (The Conversation, 2025)
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.
United States of America

La vulnerabilidad digital de las radios comunitarias en Bolivia - Nicaela León Coico (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
Bolivia

Gaza’s crisis beyond the headlines, through data, media, technology - . (The University of Tokyo, 2025)
Academics and journalists call for change in the narrative around the Palestine conflict, highlighting how impartiality and discussion of historical context are being widely ignored. Newer modes of communication beyond traditional broadcast mediums are hoped to help steer audiences toward content much closer to the source.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)

Gaza’s crisis beyond the headlines, through data, media, technology - . (The University of Tokyo, 2025)
Academics and journalists call for change in the narrative around the Palestine conflict, highlighting how impartiality and discussion of historical context are being widely ignored. Newer modes of communication beyond traditional broadcast mediums are hoped to help steer audiences toward content much closer to the source.
Israel

Artist’s plastic sculpture at UN urges delegates to act on pollution - McDERMOTT, Jennifer (euronews)
An evolving sculpture built from waste confronts negotiators as talks on a landmark plastic continue.
Worldwide

Artificial Democracy: The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity - Biancalana, Cecilia; Montigny, Eric (University of British Columbia Press, 2026)
A look into the political consequences of big data and artificial intelligence. Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed as relations between citizens, political parties, governments, and corporations are gradually redrawn.Artificial Democracy explores the ways in which data collection and analytics and their application are changing political practices, government policies, and even democratic policies themselves. With an international roster of multidisciplinary contributors, this topical collection takes a comprehensive approach to big data’s effect on democracy, from the use of micro-targeting in electoral campaigns to the clash between privacy and surveillance in the name of protecting society. The book tackles both the dangers and the potentially desirable changes made possible by the symbiosis of big data and artificial intelligence. It explores shifts in how we conceptualize the citizen-government relationship and asks important questions about where we could be heading.
Worldwide

ICA SAHR Tuesday Talks - An overview of the Brazilian truth commissions and the contributions of archives to investigations into human rights violations during the military dictatorship - ICA International Council on Archives; Mônica Tenaglia (2025)
Brazil

Russian photographer gets a draconian sentence for sending open source materials abroad - Daria Dergacheva (Global Voices, 2025)
Who is Grigory Skvortsov, sentenced to 16 years in prison for treason, and why any Russian citizen could easily end up in his place
Russian Federation

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum - Kingsberry, Janay (The Washington Post, 2025)
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
United States of America

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - McClure, Tess (The Guardian, 2025)
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
Ethiopia
Keywords: Africa; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Global development; Human rights; Sexual violence; Society; Violence against women and girls; War crimes; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity - McClure, Tess (The Guardian, 2025)
Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions
Eritrea
Keywords: Africa; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Global development; Human rights; Sexual violence; Society; Violence against women and girls; War crimes; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

Foreign spies are targeting defence employees working on Aukus, Asio boss reveals - McIlroy, Tom (The Guardian, 2025)
Public servants and private contractors with access to sensitive national security information are making it easy for spies, including by posting on LinkedIn.
Australia
Keywords: Aukus; Australia news; Australian intelligence agencies; Australian military; Australian universities; Espionage; Labor party

Romania offers cybersecurity support to Moldova ahead of September vote - Mihai, Catalina (Euractiv, 2025)
Amid warnings of Russian interference, Moldova has been offered Romanian technical expertise to counter cyber and disinformation threats ahead of its 28 September election.
Moldova

Romania offers cybersecurity support to Moldova ahead of September vote - Mihai, Catalina (Euractiv, 2025)
Amid warnings of Russian interference, Moldova has been offered Romanian technical expertise to counter cyber and disinformation threats ahead of its 28 September election.
Romania

Houthi Video of False Confessions an Apparent War Crime - Niku Jafarnia (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Videos released by the Houthis on July 27, 2025, showing several crew members from a sunken ship who apparently have been detained for weeks is an outrage on their personal dignity, an apparent war crime.
Yemen

In Argentina, a Bold Step for Global Justice: Holding the Chinese Government Accountable for Atrocities Against Uyghurs - Rayhan Asat and Sophie Richardson (Just Security, 2025)
A recent court decision in Argentina offers a source of hope to Uyghur victims seeking justice for Beijing's alleged atrocities in Xinjiang.
Argentina

In Argentina, a Bold Step for Global Justice: Holding the Chinese Government Accountable for Atrocities Against Uyghurs - Rayhan Asat and Sophie Richardson (Just Security, 2025)
A recent court decision in Argentina offers a source of hope to Uyghur victims seeking justice for Beijing's alleged atrocities in Xinjiang.
China

There are no secrets on the internet. Just ask the women who entrusted their data to Tea - Mahdawi, Arwa (The Guardian, 2025)
An app designed to protect its users from dodgy men has been hacked by dodgy men.
Worldwide
Keywords: 4chan; Apps; Data protection; Dating; Life and style; Online abuse; Social networking; Society; Technology; Women

In a Reversal, Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online - Mulkey, Sachi Kitajima (The New York Times, 2025)
The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.
United States of America
Keywords: Arctic Regions; Defense Department; Global Warming; Ice; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Research; Satellites; Sensors; Space and Astronomy; United States; United States Defense and Military Forces; United States Navy; United States Space Force; Weather

Housing, Land, and Property Documentation in the South of Lebanon: A Rapid Needs Assessment - UNHCR (ReliefWeb, 2025)
The escalation of hostilities in Lebanon during and after September 2024 led to severe destruction, affecting approximately 100,000 housing units and resulting in an estimated USD 3.2 billion in damages, according to the World Bank. This research assesses the impact of the renewed conflict on housing, land and property (HLP) documentation—specifically, the ownership and condition of these records. It examines whether these records were lost or destroyed, and how this loss affects internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) ability to rebuild their lives. The study also explores stakeholder perspectives on the role of the humanitarian community in addressing these challenges, and the potential risks to social stability arising from unclear property boundaries in areas that were completely destroyed.
Lebanon

#KeepItOn: Nepal’s Telegram ban is a dangerous escalation of digital censorship (Access Now, 2025)
Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition are alarmed by the Government of Nepal’s decision to ban the popular messaging application Telegram.
Nepal

Margot K: “What began as a modest bookshelf has grown into a LGBTIQ+ library with over 400 titles” (Amnesty International, 2025)
Growing up in Lebanon as an LGBTIQ+ person was like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded or reading a book in a language I didn’t understand. Around the age of 12, I realized I didn’t fit the usual expectations around sexuality and identity, but I didn’t even have the words for what I was.
Lebanon

‘Lumumba everlasting’: Belgium marks Congo’s slain leader’s 100th birthday with exhibition – and possible trial - Rankin, Jennifer (The Guardian, 2025)
Surprise move towards trial of veteran diplomat over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination coincides with show seeking to widen focus on his life and fight
Democratic Republic of Congo
Keywords: Africa; Art; Art and design; Belgium; Colonialism; Culture; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Europe; Patrice Lumumba; World news

Uruguay and Chile strengthen cooperation regarding human rights violations (MercoPress, 2025)
Uruguay and Chile advanced their collaboration on policies related to memory, truth, and justice regarding past human rights violations.
Uruguay

Uruguay and Chile strengthen cooperation regarding human rights violations (MercoPress, 2025)
Uruguay and Chile advanced their collaboration on policies related to memory, truth, and justice regarding past human rights violations.
Chile

Russia Counters Ukrainian Drones by Turning Off Russians’ Mobile Internet - Vasilyeva, Nataliya; Lobzina, Alina (The New York Times, 2025)
The same data networks that enable phone apps and web surfing help drones navigate, so officials are imposing daily, patchwork shutdowns. The actions can be very disruptive to daily life.
Russian Federation
Keywords: Communications and Media Blackouts; Computer Network Outages; Drones (Pilotless Planes); E-Commerce; Mobile Applications; Putin; Vladimir V; Russia; Wireless Communications

Internet shutdowns in Russia hit new record - Zhyrmont, Anastasiya (Access Now, 2025)
Internet shutdowns in Russia have been breaking records, with authorities cutting connectivity and blocking apps across the country.
Russian Federation

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned - Aslanyan, Anna (The Guardian, 2025)
Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work.
Russian Federation
Keywords: Books; Censorship; Culture; Publishing; Russia; World news

Business as usual for racism in schools - Alam-Simmons, Ara (E-Tangata, 2025)
“There’s a bitter irony when those who benefit most from a racist education system are the ones deciding whether we count the data — and how we talk about it.”
New Zealand

L'ONU appelle à aider les Soudanais déplacés de force qui commencent à rentrer chez eux (UN News, 2025)
Alors que le conflit persiste dans la majeure partie du Soudan, des poches de sécurité relative sont apparues et, à ce jour, plus de 1,3 million de personnes déplacées de force dont 300.000 réfugiés sont rentrées chez elles, principalement dans les États de Khartoum, de Sennar et d’Al Jazirah, où l’impact de plus de deux ans de guerre est immense.
Sudan

Pride, Preservation, and the Power of Archives (International Council of Museums, 2025)
In this episode we speak with Daniel Payne, Reference Archivist at The ArQuives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives. The ArQuives, founded in 1973, are now among the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archives in the world, with vast collections ranging from personal papers to photographs and memorabilia, all preserving the diverse story of queer and trans lives across Canada and beyond.
Worldwide

In the US, a factual National Archive still exists — but for how long? - Anna Nemzer (The Hill, 2025)
If access were restricted or content altered or erased, as is already happening on numerous government websites, truth, as in Russia, begins to disappear.
United States of America

Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data - Burke, Doris, Renee Dudley (ProPublica, 2025)
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department.
China

Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data - Burke, Doris, Renee Dudley (ProPublica, 2025)
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department.
United States of America

La CIJ se joint à la bataille sur le changement climatique - Capacci, Margherita (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
C'est une décision juridique que les militants du monde entier attendaient avec impatience. Le 23 juillet, la Cour internationale de justice a déclaré que le changement climatique était « un problème existentiel aux proportions planétaires » pour l'humanité. Elle a énoncé les obligations juridiques de tous les États et le droit à réparation pour les pays victimes des grands pollueurs.
Worldwide

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest - Considine, Clare (The Guardian, 2025)
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
United States of America
Keywords: Florida; Trump administration; US immigration; US news; US policing; US politics

Defending lives and data amid crises and disasters - ESCAP (ReliefWeb, 2025)
Home to more disasters than any other regions, Asia and the Pacific faces rising risks as extreme environmental events grow in both frequency and intensity. At the heart of disaster preparedness, lies a crucial yet often overlooked system: Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS). Not only are these systems essential for ensuring that everyone has access to a legal identity, as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 16.9, they provide critical and accurate population data, which enable effective disaster planning, response, resource allocation, and recovery efforts.
Worldwide

Maroon scholar calls for digitisation of the Maroon story - Paul H. Williams (Jamaica Gleaner, 2025)
The story of the Jamaican Maroons is the story of the beginning of the evolution of the Jamaican nation. They were the first people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere to free themselves from European enslavers.
Jamaica

France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad - Willsher, Kim (The Guardian, 2025)
Judges rule document invalid as former Syrian leader had immunity as head of state
Syria
Keywords: Bashar al-Assad; Chemical weapons; Europe; France; Human rights; International law; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Syria; World news

France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad - Willsher, Kim (The Guardian, 2025)
Judges rule document invalid as former Syrian leader had immunity as head of state
France
Keywords: Bashar al-Assad; Chemical weapons; Europe; France; Human rights; International law; Law; Middle East and north Africa; Syria; World news

hūmānus and ARSPHR Launch Groundbreaking Rohingya Atrocities Archive, Continuing Mohibullah's Sacrificial Fight for Truth and Justice (PR Newswire, 2025)
hūmānus and the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace & Human Rights (ARSPHR) announced the pivotal launch of the Rohingya Atrocities Archive, a groundbreaking digital repository. This powerful, meticulously curated platform stands as a testament to ARSPHR's tireless, community-driven documentation, initially gathered on handwritten notes and often precariously stored. In 2020, hūmānus initiated a critical project to painstakingly digitalise these vital records for safekeeping and in-depth analysis, supporting ARSPHR in cleaning the data, filling information gaps, and developing robust investigation strategies.
Southeast Asia

International media groups urge Israel to allow access to Gaza (Euractiv, 2025)
Since the war started following the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas, journalists have been able to enter Gaza only with the Israeli army and with strict military censorship rules
Israel

International media groups urge Israel to allow access to Gaza (Euractiv, 2025)
Since the war started following the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas, journalists have been able to enter Gaza only with the Israeli army and with strict military censorship rules
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)

Russia Clamps Down on Online Searches - Anastasiia Kruope (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
This week, Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens for “intentionally” searching for “extremist” content on the internet, including via censorship circumvention tools like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
Russian Federation

Undelivered farewell letters from victims of Nazi persecution - Arolsen archives (Arolsen Archives, 2025)
The Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives start a cooperation on execution files from Munich-Stadelheim. The Munich-Stadelheim prison was a “central execution center” under National Socialism, making it one of the main sites of Nazi injustice in Munich. Over 1,000 people were executed there up to 1945. Touching documents from there are undelivered farewell.
Germany

Central African Republic: ICC Convicts Two Anti-Balaka Leaders - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of two anti-balaka militia leaders for serious crimes in the Central African Republic is an important step toward justice in the country.
Central African Republic
Keywords: The Netherlands

Guerre d’Algérie : ce que les difficultés d’accès aux archives disent de notre démocratie - Lafaye, Christophe (The Conversation, 2025)
Les chercheurs et les citoyens rencontrent de sérieux problèmes pour accéder aux archives contemporaines du Service historique de la défense (SHD). En effet, l’ouverture des archives les plus délicates sur la guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962) pose des problèmes. Les réticences se cristallisent autour de questions sensibles, comme celles du renseignement, des crimes de guerre, de l’emploi des armes spéciales (nucléaires, radiologiques, biologiques et chimiques) ou des sites d’essais nucléaires et chimiques.
Algeria

Guerre d’Algérie : ce que les difficultés d’accès aux archives disent de notre démocratie - Lafaye, Christophe (The Conversation, 2025)
Les chercheurs et les citoyens rencontrent de sérieux problèmes pour accéder aux archives contemporaines du Service historique de la défense (SHD). En effet, l’ouverture des archives les plus délicates sur la guerre d’Algérie (1954-1962) pose des problèmes. Les réticences se cristallisent autour de questions sensibles, comme celles du renseignement, des crimes de guerre, de l’emploi des armes spéciales (nucléaires, radiologiques, biologiques et chimiques) ou des sites d’essais nucléaires et chimiques.
France

Artist Amy Sherald cancels Smithsonian show over censorship - Lee, Benjamin (The Guardian, 2025)
Portraitist withdrew her National Portrait Gallery show over reports that a transgender Statue of Liberty painting could offend Trump
United States of America
Keywords: Art; Art and design; Culture; Donald Trump; Painting; US news

Trump signs executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models and regulation - Robins-Early, Nick; Gambino, Lauren (The Guardian, 2025)
Crackdown would streamline the building of datacentres and remove environmental protections
United States of America
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Donald Trump; Technology; Trump administration; US news; US politics; World news

Africa Sets Course to Strengthen and Harmonise Health Data Governance (Africa CDC, 2025)
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) is set to kick off action towards strengthening and harmonising the framework of policies, procedures, and practices that ensure healthcare data is managed, protected, and used responsibly throughout its lifecycle — health data governance — across the continent.
Africa

Albanese government worse than Morrison era at producing documents for public scrutiny, report finds - Belot, Henry (The Guardian, 2025)
A Centre for Public Integrity report found in 2022-23, for the first time, more FOI requests were refused than fully granted to applicants. The report also found the number of FOI documents granted in full had fallen by more than half in just over a decade.
Australia
Keywords: Australia news; Australian politics; Freedom of information

The Huawei Dilemma: Why Europe Needs Strong Intelligence Guardrails - Dave Venable; Mykola Volkivskyi (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Spain's decision to award Huawei with a contract to manage a wiretap system shows the lack of security standards across European intelligence.
Europe

China's Disinformation Offensive in Taiwan - Hollie McKay (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Every day, social media feeds in Taiwan are flooded with a mix of sensational and carefully-crafted, more subdued claims. They range from fear-mongering about a potential cross-strait conflict to narratives portraying the Republic of China as grappling with racism and food safety issues, to casting doubt on its relationship with Washington.
Asia

Do You Have Information About the CECOT Deportations? Help ProPublica Report. - Jameel, Melissa Sanchez, Mica Rosenberg, Maryam, Perla Trevizo (ProPublica, 2025)
If you have information about the deportation operation or the immigrants who were deported, we want to hear from you.
United States of America

¿Lo enviaron a usted o a alguien que conozca al CECOT? - Jameel, Melissa Sanchez, Mica Rosenberg, Maryam, Perla Trevizo (ProPublica, 2025)
Si tiene información sobre los venezolanos que Trump mandó a una cárcel salvadoreña, queremos hablar con usted.
United States of America

‘Women are the guardians of our culture’: why Kihnu is Estonia’s island of true equality - Lewis, Sian (The Guardian, 2025)
They wear traditional dress, play ancient melodies on violins and accordions, but the women of this island outpost ensure that it is more than just a living museum.
Estonia
Keywords: Cultural trips; Estonia holidays; Europe holidays; Life and style; Society; Travel; Women

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show - Olalde, Mark (ProPublica, 2025)
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousands of pages of law enforcement communications.
United States of America

Guard at U.S. Embassy in Norway Charged With Spying for Russia and Iran - Pranav Baskar; Henrik Pryser Libell (The New York Times, 2025)
A Norwegian man has been accused of leaking sensitive information about U.S. embassy staff members and threatening Norway’s national interests, according to prosecutors.
Worldwide
Keywords: Classified Information and State Secrets; Diplomatic Service; Embassies and Consulates; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Iran; Mohamed Orahhou; Norway; Russia; United States International Relations

Ministers urged to help students trapped in Gaza with places at UK universities - Weale, Sally (The Guardian, 2025)
Forty people who have been offered scholarships unable to travel without biometric data they have no way of getting.
United Kingdom
Keywords: Education; Gaza; Higher education; Home Office; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Students; UK news; Universities; World news

Ministers urged to help students trapped in Gaza with places at UK universities - Weale, Sally (The Guardian, 2025)
Forty people who have been offered scholarships unable to travel without biometric data they have no way of getting.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)
Keywords: Education; Gaza; Higher education; Home Office; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Students; UK news; Universities; World news

L’administration Trump déclassifie « plus de 230 000 pages » d’archives sur l’assassinat de Martin Luther King (Le Monde, 2025)
Ces documents portent notamment sur l’enquête du FBI, la police fédérale, sur la traque internationale de l’assassin présumé du défenseur des droits civiques, ou encore sur le témoignage d’un de ses codétenus.
United States of America

UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal - Booth, Robert (The Guardian, 2025)
Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after ‘major failures’ in the past
United Kingdom
Keywords: Amazon; Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Google; Labour; Microsoft; OpenAI; Palantir; Peter Kyle; Politics; Sam Altman; Silicon Valley; Technology; UK news

La Syrie post-Assad : se reconstruire à travers l’art - Buriel, Albane (The Conversation, 2025)
À l’issue d’un récent séjour sur leterrain, Albane Buriel, chercheuse spécialisée en science de l’éducation, dresse un portraitethnographique de la scène artistique syrienne depuis la chute du régime de Bachar Al-Assaden décembre 2024. Des initiatives et des collectifs émergent, de Damas à Alep en passantpar Homs. Les artistes se réapproprient les lieux, les visages et les souvenirs, pour rendrehommage aux victimes du régime. L’art s’impose comme un outil essentiel sur le chemin versla reconstruction.
Syria

Irish Museum of Modern Art rejects censorship claims after Derek Jarman film cancellation - Campbell, Sinéad (The Guardian, 2025)
IMMA says it plans to reinstate screenings of The Angelic Conversation, following a complaint against the showing of a gay kiss on the museum’s outdoor screen
Ireland
Keywords: Censorship; Culture; Derek Jarman; Europe; Film; Ireland; LGBTQ+ rights; World news

De Gaza à Amman, le récit du sauvetage sous haute tension des archives familiales de l’UNRWA - Laure Stephan (Le Monde, 2025)
Les documents attestant du statut de réfugiés de centaines de milliers de Palestiniens ont été sortis de l’enclave dans les premiers mois de la guerre, sous les bombardements israéliens, et mis à l’abri en Jordanie. « Le Monde » retrace en exclusivité le déroulement de cette opération jusqu’ici tenue secrète.
Jordan

De Gaza à Amman, le récit du sauvetage sous haute tension des archives familiales de l’UNRWA - Laure Stephan (Le Monde, 2025)
Les documents attestant du statut de réfugiés de centaines de milliers de Palestiniens ont été sortis de l’enclave dans les premiers mois de la guerre, sous les bombardements israéliens, et mis à l’abri en Jordanie. « Le Monde » retrace en exclusivité le déroulement de cette opération jusqu’ici tenue secrète.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)

From Gaza to Amman, how UNRWA's family archives were rescued under fire - Laure Stephan (Le Monde, 2025)
Documents attesting to the refugee status of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were taken out of Gaza in the early months of the war and stored safely in Jordan. Le Monde tells the story of this previously unreported secret operation.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)

From Gaza to Amman, how UNRWA's family archives were rescued under fire - Laure Stephan (Le Monde, 2025)
Documents attesting to the refugee status of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were taken out of Gaza in the early months of the war and stored safely in Jordan. Le Monde tells the story of this previously unreported secret operation.
Jordan

Pourquoi la publication de milliers de pages sur l’assassinat de Martin Luther King inquiète sa famille - Maxime Dhuin (Le HuffPost, 2025)
Les enfants du leader du mouvement des droits civiques appellent ceux qui s’intéresseront aux documents déclassifiés à le faire avec « empathie et respect ».
United States of America

Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr despite his family’s opposition (The Guardian, 2025)
About 200,000 pages of surveillance records released despite objection from slain civil rights leader’s family
United States of America
Keywords: FBI; Martin Luther King; Trump administration; US news

UNRWA and Health Insight Asia Take Key Step in Improving Digital Health Records for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA, 2025)
UNRWA and Health Insight Asia have taken a key step in improving healthcare for millions of Palestine Refugees by taking the Agency’s use of electronic medical records to a new level.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)

Une culture généralisée et systémique de la torture - Bergman, David (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
Salles d’interrogatoire spécialisées, chocs électriques, « chaises tournantes », « systèmes de poulies pour suspendre les personnes », simulacre de noyade et dispositifs d’insonorisation pour étouffer les cris des victimes… Le dernier rapport de la Commission d’enquête sur les disparitions forcées au Bangladesh dévoile les chambres d’horreur de l’ancien régime.
Bangladesh

UK may back down on demand for backdoor access to Apple users’ encrypted data - Booth, Robert; Syal, Rajeev (The Guardian, 2025)
Government sources say pressure from Washington, including JD Vance, could lead to Home Office climbdown, according to reports
United Kingdom
Keywords: Apple; Business; Computing; Encryption; Home Office; JD Vance; Law; Politics; Privacy; Surveillance; Technology; UK news; US news; World news

UK may back down on demand for backdoor access to Apple users’ encrypted data - Booth, Robert; Syal, Rajeev (The Guardian, 2025)
Government sources say pressure from Washington, including JD Vance, could lead to Home Office climbdown, according to reports
United States of America
Keywords: Apple; Business; Computing; Encryption; Home Office; JD Vance; Law; Politics; Privacy; Surveillance; Technology; UK news; US news; World news

‘The Lesson from Gaza Is Clear: When Ai-powered Machines Control Who Lives, Human Rights Die’ - CIVICUS (Inter Press Service, 2025)
CIVICUS discusses the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Gaza with Dima Samaro, a Palestinian lawyer and researcher, and director of Skyline International for Human Rights, a civil society organisation (CSO) that defends digital freedoms and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the United Nations)

Australia pressed Tony Blair to avoid meeting ‘troublemaker’ 1999 Indigenous delegation, archives reveal - Quinn, Ben; Davies, Caroline (The Guardian, 2025)
Representatives led by Patrick Dodson met Queen but memo reveals PM advised to plead ‘diary problems’
United Kingdom
Keywords: Australia news; Australian foreign policy; Australian politics; Cricket; Foreign policy; Indigenous Australians; Indigenous recognition; John Howard; National Archives; Pat Dodson; Politics; Tony Blair; UK news; World news

Australia pressed Tony Blair to avoid meeting ‘troublemaker’ 1999 Indigenous delegation, archives reveal - Quinn, Ben; Davies, Caroline (The Guardian, 2025)
Representatives led by Patrick Dodson met Queen but memo reveals PM advised to plead ‘diary problems’
Australia
Keywords: Australia news; Australian foreign policy; Australian politics; Cricket; Foreign policy; Indigenous Australians; Indigenous recognition; John Howard; National Archives; Pat Dodson; Politics; Tony Blair; UK news; World news

Trump Releases Thousands of Martin Luther King Jr. Files - Rojas, Rick (The New York Times, 2025)
Historians said they saw little of note in the assassination records that President Trump disclosed despite opposition from most of Dr. King’s family.
United States of America
Keywords: Archives and Records; Classified Information and State Secrets; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Justice Department; National Archives and Records Administration; Trump; Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Routine health information system and health facility data for neglected tropical diseases: general guidance for national programme managers and data clerks (World Health Organisation, 2025)
Given the heterogeneity of NTDs, information pathways and data management practices supporting programmes to eradicate, eliminate and control these diseases have tended to be equally diverse. This situation has created an uneven, complex information pathway beset by duplication and dispersion of effort, inefficiencies and missed opportunities. The WHO-led development of the RHIS provides a unique opportunity to address several of these challenges and harness investments in systems by several stakeholders to strengthen national health information systems. In response, the Global NTD Programme has collaborated with the corporate WHO RHIS toolkit initiative by developing programme-specific guidance.
Worldwide

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Rwanda (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
In 2021, the Rwandan delegation expressed support for 160 out of 284 human rights recommendations, including relating to access to justice and remedy, prison and detention conditions, and the rights to freedom of speech and association.
Rwanda

CFP: Colonial Objects: Material Culture of Italian Colonialism - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
DUE 5 September. We welcome critical analyses of objects that propose unexpected, alternative, or conflicting narratives of Italian colonialism. Possible case studies can pertain to the fields of art history, military history, economics, industry, education, fashion, design, media, consumption, and tourism, as well as everyday artifacts and utensils.
Italy

Memories of Movement - Shaeera Kalla; Tsogo Kupa (Africa is a Country, 2025)
An experimental reimagining of protest memory — unsettling the archive and inviting viewers to ask what movements leave behind.
Africa

Tech conglomerate Tencent reportedly requests removal of anti-censorship archive FreeWeChat - Khunsha Dar, Hong (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 2025)
Chinese tech giant Tencent is seeking the removal of FreeWeChat.com, an archive developed by GreatFire. The website specialises in surfacing deleted or blocked WeChat posts on politically sensitive topics.
China

Meta argues its AI needs personal information from social media posts to learn ‘Australian concepts’ - Taylor, Josh; reporter, Josh Taylor Technology (The Guardian, 2025)
Tech giant says posts from Australian Facebook and Instagram users are ‘vital learning’ about ‘concepts, realities, and figures’
Australia
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Australia news; Meta; Privacy; Technology

Archiving for Justice, Truth, and Memory: Unpacking the Baggage of What Went Before - Jackson, Rachel (UConn Today, 2025)
Reflections on the importance of the newest addition to ICTY Digital Archives, the Srebrenica Genocide Archives Collection.
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks. - Jaffe, Logan (ProPublica, 2025)
After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.
United States of America

Senate Must Consider Security Risks in Judicial Confirmations - Noah Bookbinder, Christie Wentworth and Danielle DeVillier (Just Security, 2025)
A vote to confirm a judicial nominee is a vote to grant that individual a lifetime security clearance and access to some of the country’s most closely held secrets.
United States of America

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE - Asher-Schapiro, Christopher Bing, Avi, William Turton (ProPublica, 2025)
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
United States of America

U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Breach - Castle, Stephen; London, Mark Landler Reporting from (The New York Times, 2025)
The government said that information about 18,000 Afghans was accidentally revealed in 2022. A legal order had prevented any reporting on the subject.
United Kingdom
Keywords: Afghanistan; Asylum; Right of; Classified Information and State Secrets; Defense and Military Forces; Great Britain; Healey; John (1960- ); Politics and Government; Taliban

Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare - Odenheimer, Steven Lee MyersNatan; Solomon, Erika (The New York Times, 2025)
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
Iran
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Defense and Military Forces; International Relations; Mossad; NewsGuard Technologies Inc; Propaganda; Rumors and Misinformation; Social Media; Video Recordings; Downloads and Streaming

Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare - Odenheimer, Steven Lee MyersNatan; Solomon, Erika (The New York Times, 2025)
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
Israel
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Defense and Military Forces; International Relations; Mossad; NewsGuard Technologies Inc; Propaganda; Rumors and Misinformation; Social Media; Video Recordings; Downloads and Streaming

Des outils de surveillance pilotés par l’IA utilisés pour traquer des activistes autochtones, dénonce l'ONU (UN News, 2025)
Si l’intelligence artificielle (IA) peut aider les peuples autochtones à surveiller les changements environnementaux afin de préserver la biodiversité, ces outils sont parfois utilisés par des Etats « pour traquer » les activistes chargés de défendre la cause des peuples autochtones, a déploré le chef des droits de l’homme de l’ONU.
Worldwide

Understanding challenges in detention through Health Information System (International Committee of the Red Cross, 2025)
Overcrowing in detention causes many health issues. Addressing these issues is another problem. Prior to 2024, there was no standard medical recording in place in BJMP jails. Detainees’ health records were disorganized. Information from consultations were written in loose sheets of papers; these were stored in places where they could easily be accessed, destroyed or lost. The lack of a standard recording system also meant that reliable health data was unavailable, making it hard for the authorities to make decisions in connection to the delivery of basic healthcare to detainees.
Philippines

Kosovo Ex-PM Among 10 Convicted of Falsifying War Veterans’ Lists - Ferati, Krenare (Balkan Insight, 2025)
Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and nine others were found guilty of falsifying war veterans’ lists to enable people to claim welfare benefits, and sentenced to a year in prison each.
Kosovo

Lost archives of Idi Amin preserved and protected - The University of Wesern Australia (2025)
The “lost archive” of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and materials documenting the country’s history between 1947 and 1986 has been registered by UNESCO.
Uganda

A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist - Jayleen Green (Los Angeles Sentinel, 2025)
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington. The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, telegrams, speeches, and more tied to Rustin’s work. Sourced from museums, archives, and personal accounts, it’s designed as a central space where others can add their own stories, creating a living historical record.
United States of America

La FDA mise sur une transparence radicale : la publication des lettres de décision fait sensation (Lab News, 2025)
La Food and Drug Administration (FDA) américaine a franchi aujourd'hui une étape décisive en matière de transparence en publiant plus de 200 lettres deréponse complètes (CRL). Ces lettres de décision, émises entre 2020 et 2024 dans le cadredes demandes d'approbation de médicaments et de produits biologiques, offrent au public,pour la première fois, un aperçu détaillé des processus décisionnels de l'agence. Cetteinitiative s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un programme plus vaste de modernisation de la FDA.
United States of America

‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica - Borger, Julian (The Guardian, 2025)
Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Europe; Islam; Ratko Mladić; Religion; War crimes; World news

Bangladesh’s ousted Sheikh Hasina charged with crimes against humanity - Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (The Guardian, 2025)
Former leader, who is in hiding in India, indicted over deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last year
Bangladesh
Keywords: Bangladesh; Protest; Sheikh Hasina; South and central Asia; World news

Justice Dept. Demands Patient Details From Trans Medicine Providers - Ghorayshi, Azeen; Thrush, Glenn (The New York Times, 2025)
Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments.
United States of America
Keywords: Discrimination; Doctors; Hospitals; Justice Department; Medicine and Health; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Subpoenas; Teenagers and Adolescence; Transgender; Trump; Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency - Maass, Matthew Guariglia and Dave (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public.
United States of America

No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces - Martinez, José (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
California has introduced S.B. 627 to prohibit law enforcement from covering their faces during encounters with the public, in response to masked ICE agent actions.
United States of America

Why 18th century European kids were designing their idea of Australia - McGillivray, Mary (ABC News, 2025)
Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what lessons are hidden in her work?
Australia
Keywords: botany bay; colonial girls history; colonial history; embroidery; laura cook; lorinda cramer; margret begbie; national museum of australia; needlework; samplers

« Migrants », « réfugiés », « illégaux », « candidats à l’asile »… comment les politiques et les médias désignent les personnes en déplacement - Mistiaen, Valériane (The Conversation, 2025)
L’analyse de plus de 13 000 articles de presse et 3 400 journaux télévisés montre la grande diversité des termes utilisés pour désigner les personnes en déplacement – une terminologie qui influence profondément le regard porté sur elles.
Worldwide

Human rights tribunal rejects worker’s request to ban publication of medical records (Human Rights Law Canada, 2025)
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has denied a former student union executive's request to limit public disclosure of her medical information in a discrimination case, ruling that privacy concerns do not outweigh the principle of open court proceedings.
Canada

Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty - Dosunmu, Damilare (Rest of World, 2025)
Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
Worldwide

France Should Follow WWII Rejection of Head of State Immunity - Kostas, Steve, Dan Plesch (Just Security, 2025)
Newly revealed historical records of European States' criminal indictments of Hitler should shape how courts think of "head of state immunity"
Europe

Trente ans après le génocide de Srebrenica, l’ONU appelle à défendre la vérité et la justice (UN News, 2025)
L’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a commémoré mardi le 30e anniversaire du génocide de Srebrenica, qualifié par les juridictions internationales comme la pire atrocité commise sur le sol européen depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Lors de la cérémonie solennelle, les Nations Unies ont réaffirmé leur engagement à tirer les leçons de cette tragédie, à préserver la mémoire des victimes, et à lutter contre le négationnisme et la montée des discours de haine.
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Working Group on Data Governance (Broadband Commission, 2025)
How can governments promote sustainable development through effective, inclusive, and future-proof data governance? The Broadband Commission Working Group on Data Governance in the Digital Age was launched to advance inclusive, interoperable, and future-ready data governance frameworks that respond to the challenges and opportunities of today.
Worldwide

ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women - Ahmed, Kaamil; Joya, Zahra (The Guardian, 2025)
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanity
Afghanistan
Keywords: Afghanistan; Global development; International criminal court; International criminal justice; International law; Law; Society; South and central Asia; Taliban; Violence against women and girls; Women under the Taliban; Women's rights and gender equality; World news

30 ans après : qui a été condamné pour les crimes de Srebrenica ? - Kuloglija, Nermina (JusticeInfo.net, 2025)
Au total, trente ans après, 54 personnes ont été condamnées à 781 années de prison pour legénocide et d’autres crimes commis à Srebrenica. Mais les procès se font de plus en plusrares, tout comme les preuves suffisantes. À l’occasion du 30e anniversaire dugénocide, Detektor, en collaboration avec Justice Info, présente un aperçu des verdictsrendus pour génocide, ainsi qu’un rappel des moments clés du travail des instancesjudiciaires nationales et internationales dans la poursuite de ces crimes.
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human rights documentation is dead. Long live human rights documentation! - Benedict “Bono” Salazar Olgado (OpenGlobalRights, 2025)
Once the backbone of human rights work, documentation is now in crisis. Formal investigations, curated archives, and legal evidence are losing ground amid shifting approaches to philanthropy, NGO precarity, and shrinking civic spaces. Even as established documentation methods utilize new technologies, skepticism toward name-and-shame strategies and legal instruments has left documentation struggling for relevance, particularly in crisis-driven contexts that demand rapid responses.
Worldwide

‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures - Campbell, Duncan (The Guardian, 2025)
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall
United Kingdom
Keywords: Activism; Feminism; Human rights; Law; Life and style; News photography; Protest; Race

The disappearances of Christians under the Assad regime (Syriac Press, 2025)
In 2024, following the collapse of the Assad regime, investigative journalists and human rights groups gained access to intelligence archives once guarded with absolute secrecy. Among the files was a June 2012 memo detailing prisoner’s deaths in custody. The documents confirmed that bodies were routinely transferred to military hospitals and buried without notifying families. Names were redacted, but cross-referencing with witness accounts and hospital records pointed to at least dozens of Christians among the victims.
Syria

South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates - France 24 (France 24, 2025)
An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth registration, with some people waiting for seven years for a response from…
Suth Africa

Lesbian archive preserves LGBTQ+ history in the face of erasure - Amanda Becker (Good Good Good, 2025)
As programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people are cut, an Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.
United States of America

The Human Cost of Javier Milei’s Assault on Science and History - Gilliland, Haley Cohen (The New York Times, 2025)
Genetics reunited the families of Argentina’s disappeared. President Javier Milei’s government is imperiling that.
Argentina
Keywords: Ancestry.com; Argentina; Buenos Aires (Argentina); Genealogy; Genetics and Heredity; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; King; Mary-Claire; Milei; Javier; Politics and Government

A new platform future-proofs governance for the intelligent age - Kelly Ommundsen (World Economic Forum, 2025)
Emerging technologies such as AI are accelerating change across industries, but regulation often remains at a standstill. A new platform seeks to address this gap.
Worldwide

The Story of a Storm Part II: Visualising Conflict and Displacement Data - Scholz, Cornelia (bellingcat, 2025)
Extreme weather events are increasingly forcing millions of people from their homes. In this guide we will focus on visualising conflict, climate and displacement data.
Worldwide

When Soviets sent Jewish comrades to rally S.F. - Freedman, Howard (J Weekly, 2025)
The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in the USSR in 1942 to solicit international Jewish support for the forces battling Nazi Germany.
Europe

En France, « il devient de plus en plus difficile de militer pour le climat » - Lenardo, Agathe Di (Basta!, 2025)
Gardes à vue, violences policières, discours stigmatisants… Dans un nouveau rapport, Amnesty International dénonce les multiples formes de répression qui visent celles et ceux qui défendent l’environnement en France.
France

La madre de San Fernando que murió esperando durante 42 años reencontrarse con su hijo - Sanhueza, Ana María (El País Chile, 2025)
Cuando en 2025 Ruth Reyes declaró ante el juez Alejandro Aguilar, lo primero que le dijo fue que tenía cinco hijos, pero que le faltaba uno. También, que nunca autorizó su adopción en 1983.
Chile

50 Years of Déjà-Vu: Archiving the Gaps of Lebanon’s Unresolved Conflict - Amaya-Akkermans, Arie (DAWN, 2025)
The events of April 13, 1975—commonly referred to as the Beirut Bus Massacre—marked the start of brief but deadly armed clashes between Christian Phalangist and Palestinian militants.
Lebanon

Venezuela y Haití, los países más vulnerables ante el cambio climático y con menos recursos para responder - María Mónica Monsalve (El País América, 2025)
Ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe están en la “zona roja”, según un índice creado por Columbia y la Fundación Rockefeller. Esto, si no solo se tienen en cuenta aspectos como su ubicación geográfica y orografía, sino si también se le suman otros factores punzantes y determinantes, como su capacidad financiera y la destreza de sus Gobiernos.
Americas

“Quieren que los inmigrantes tengan miedo y se autodeporten, pero estamos ganando la batalla” - País, El (El País, 2025)
Gabriela Warkentin comienza, de manera periódica en ‘Al habla…’, una serie de conversaciones con inmigrantes y con personas en Estados Unidos, a propósito del asedio que sufren con la política migratoria de Donald Trump.
United States of America

Putting data to work: using evidence in forced displacement (UNHCR, 2025)
This report highlights how governments, UNHCR and partners are leveraging socioeconomic data and evidence to guide policy, shape programming and inform advocacy. In places where data gaps remain, UNHCR is investing in efforts – developed with national statistics offices – to lay the groundwork for better planning with development partners.
Worldwide

Truth-telling inquiry recommends redress for Aboriginal Victorians, calls for redress and transfer of power - Ashton, Kate (ABC News, 2025)
One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria. The Yoorrook Justice Commission also published an "official public record" of the history of Victoria since colonisation as told to the inquiry.
Australia
Keywords: Aboriginal-led royal commision; Genocide; Victoria; Yoorrook Justice Commission; evidence; treaty; truth-telling inquiry

Yoorook: truth be told - Yoorrook Justice Commission (Yoorrook Justice Commission, 2025)
This final report is not a typical Royal Commission report because it answers a different call. When Yoorrook was established in May 2021 by the State Government and the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria, it was given a unique and important mandate. Beyond the normal inquiry functions of a Royal Commission, Yoorrook was also tasked with creating an official public record based on First Peoples’ experiences of systemic injustice since the start of colonisation. This has never been done before.
Australia
Keywords: Aboriginal-led royal commision; Genocide

Return the gods - Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi (Africa is a Country, 2025)
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
Africa

Gathering the Red Record: Linking Racial Violence Archives - Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (School of Law, 2025)
Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) will host a two-day conference in July to mark the launch of the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive 2.0.
United States of America

Autoridades malasias investigan a organizadores de taller con temática del Orgullo por presunta promoción de «cultura desviada» - Mong Palatino (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
"No guardaremos silencio mientras a los grupos vulnerables los amenacen con violencia y les nieguen su dignidad, sea el Estado o la población".
Malaysia

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years - Carroll, Rory; correspondent, Rory Carroll Ireland (The Guardian, 2025)
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
Ireland
Keywords: Culture; Europe; Heritage; Ireland; World news

Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document US political history − federal cuts put their work at risk - Gregory, Katherine (The Conversation, 2025)
Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But that historically significant work is now in jeopardy.
United States of America

UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying - Lakhani, Nina (The Guardian, 2025)
Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
Worldwide
Keywords: Climate aid; Climate crisis; Environment; Fossil fuels; United Nations; World news

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system - Joffe-Block, Jude (NPR, 2025)
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
United States of America

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ - Holthaus, Eric (The Guardian, 2025)
Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered
United States of America
Keywords: Environment; Extreme weather; Hurricanes; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US weather

Los gitanos apenas llegan a la universidad: “La segregación y los prejuicios nos marcan” - Castro, Sara (El País, 2025)
Solo el 0,8% de los jóvenes estudiantes de esta etnia consigue graduarse en una carrera. La brecha educativa se arrastra desde la infancia, según un estudio.
Spain

Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing - DuBois, Thomas A. (The Conversation, 2025)
Amid national truth and reconciliation processes, Scandinavian churches are taking stock of their past policies toward the Sámi people.
Europe

Georgia Court Rules for Transparency over Private Police Foundation - Martinez, José (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
A Georgia court has decided that private non-profit Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) must comply with public records requests under the Georgia Open Records Act for some of its functions on behalf of the Atlanta Police Department. This is a major win for transparency in the state.
United States of America

Unpacking OpenAI’s Amazonian Archaeology Initiative - Regattieri, Lori (Tech Policy Press, 2025)
What if I told you that one of the most well-capitalized AI companies on the planet is asking volunteers to help them uncover “lost cities” in the Amazonia—by feeding machine learning models with open satellite data, lidar, “colonial” text and map records, and indigenous oral histories?
Worldwide

Las deportaciones de Trump de migrantes a Centroamérica se topan con trabas legales (El País, 2025)
La ONU advierte que Bukele podría estar cometiendo desaparición forzada contra los venezolanos encarcelados en El Salvador. En Costa Rica, el Supremo ha ordenado liberar a los migrantes asiáticos deportados por Washington.
Americas

Elon Musk Is a Security Risk - Caryl, Christian (Foreign Policy, 2025)
The billionaire’s access to sensitive information should have been a giant flashing red light for any administration.
United States of America

Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know. - Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk (The New York Times, 2025)
Devices in your home are quietly collecting information about you. Some of that data may be shared, analyzed, and sold by organizations you’ve never heard of. Maybe it’s fine. Maybe not.
United States of America

Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status (European Digital Rights (EDRi), 2025)
The letter urges the European Commission to reassess Israel’s data protection adequacy status under the GDPR.
Europe

Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status (European Digital Rights (EDRi), 2025)
The letter urges the European Commission to reassess Israel’s data protection adequacy status under the GDPR.
Israel

Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status (European Digital Rights (EDRi), 2025)
The letter urges the European Commission to reassess Israel’s data protection adequacy status under the GDPR.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)

Iberoamérica en democracia: el valor del diálogo y el consenso (El Pais, 2025)
La iniciativa es un intento de hacer fuertes los valores y los principios de la democracia y los derechos humanos, como el único suelo digno de convivencia de nuestras sociedades.
Americas

‘I was one of the few people able to document it’: shooting the Black Panthers – in pictures (The Guardian, 2025)
From bustling Free Huey rallies to private moments smoking with Angela Davis, Stephen Shames’s photographs tell the revolutionary organisation’s incredible story
United States of America
Keywords: Art and design; Civil rights movement; Culture; Exhibitions; Photography; Race; US news; World news

EFF to European Commission: Don’t Resurrect Illegal Data Retention Mandates - Windwehr, Svea (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
The mandatory retention of metadata is an evergreen of European digital policy. Despite a number of rulings by Europe’s highest court, confirming again and again the incompatibility of general and indiscriminate data retention mandates with European fundamental rights, the European Commission is taking major steps towards the re-introduction of EU-wide data retention mandates. Recently, the Commission launched a Call for Evidence on data retention for criminal investigations—the first formal step towards a legislative proposal.
Europe

Government engages UK on repatriating migrated archives - Rutendo Nyeve (HeraldOnline, 2025)
Engagements with the United Kingdom for the repatriation of valuable historical records taken during the colonial era are at an advanced stage, with Zimbabwe seeking to follow in the footsteps of Kenya, which successfully reclaimed its migrated archives.
Zimbabwe
Keywords: United Kingdom

Government engages UK on repatriating migrated archives - Rutendo Nyeve (HeraldOnline, 2025)
Engagements with the United Kingdom for the repatriation of valuable historical records taken during the colonial era are at an advanced stage, with Zimbabwe seeking to follow in the footsteps of Kenya, which successfully reclaimed its migrated archives.
United Kingdom
Keywords: United Kingdom

Oil Companies Fight Climate Lawsuits by Citing Free Speech - Zraick, Karen; Mulkey, Sachi Kitajima (The New York Times, 2025)
The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.
United States of America
Keywords: Bonta; Rob (1972- ); Boutrous; Theodore J Jr; California; Chevron Corporation; Exxon Mobil Corp; Freedom of Speech and Expression; Global Warming; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; Suits and Litigation (Civil); United States Politics and Government

Argentina’s Supreme Court digs deeper into discovered Nazi archive - Buenos Aires Times (Buenos Aires Times, 2025)
Passports, propaganda, membership documents, swastika notebooks, images of Hitler – Argentina’s Supreme Court is progressing with its investigation into the contents of boxes holding Nazi files, which were found in champagne crates in a basement.
Argentina

From chalkboards to culturally inclusive digital connectivity (UNICEF, 2025)
For the first time in the Republic of the Marshall Islands' (RMI) history, every public elementary school will be powered and connected. This initiative brings life-changing access to electricity and the internet to even the most remote islands, ensuring every child can learn, no matter their location.
Marshall Islands

Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon (Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford, 2025)
This talk addresses the concept of “Living Archives," which has evolved from Professor Allan's ongoing research as an ethnographer, filmmaker and archivist working with Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. It builds on the Nakba Archive - a grassroots testimonial initiative that has documented histories of forced expulsion of 1948 - and is premised on the reimagining of archive as a creative, participatory practice that resists fixity and centers process. It draws inspiration from recent shifts in how Palestinian scholars, writers, and artists are rethinking mnemonic and documentary witness practices, and explores camp spaces as stateless archives, mnemonically embodied rather than institutionally housed.
Lebanon

Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon (Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford, 2025)
This talk addresses the concept of “Living Archives," which has evolved from Professor Allan's ongoing research as an ethnographer, filmmaker and archivist working with Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. It builds on the Nakba Archive - a grassroots testimonial initiative that has documented histories of forced expulsion of 1948 - and is premised on the reimagining of archive as a creative, participatory practice that resists fixity and centers process. It draws inspiration from recent shifts in how Palestinian scholars, writers, and artists are rethinking mnemonic and documentary witness practices, and explores camp spaces as stateless archives, mnemonically embodied rather than institutionally housed.
Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)

Carla Hayden on her time as a pioneering librarian of Congress and getting fired by Trump (2025)
After Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump last month, only 14 Americans have ever held the position. I traveled to Baltimore to speak with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration's ongoing efforts to reshape key institutions and why she intends to keep speaking out.
United States of America

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It - Satariano, Adam; Jeanna Smialek (The New York Times, 2025)
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
Europe
Keywords: Cloud Computing; Computers and the Internet; Corporations; Embargoes and Sanctions; Executive Orders and Memorandums; International Criminal Court; International Relations; Khan; Karim (1970- ); Microsoft Corp; Nadella; Satya; Politics and Government; Software; Trump; Donald J; United States International Relations; United States Politics and Government

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It - Satariano, Adam; London, Jeanna Smialek Adam Satariano reported from (The New York Times, 2025)
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
United States of America
Keywords: Cloud Computing; Computers and the Internet; Corporations; Embargoes and Sanctions; Executive Orders and Memorandums; International Criminal Court; International Relations; Khan; Karim (1970- ); Microsoft Corp; Nadella; Satya; Politics and Government; Software; Trump; Donald J; United States International Relations; United States Politics and Government

Court order on five independent NGOs a blow to freedom of association (Amnesty International, 2025)
Targeting those who fight for justice and combat corruption is contrary to Georgia’s international human rights obligations including the rights to freedom of expression and association
Georgia

La décision de justice concernant cinq ONG indépendantes est un coup porté à la liberté d’association (Amnesty International, 2025)
Cette décision de justice illustre une nouvelle fois le durcissement de la répression des droits à la liberté d'expression et d'association en Géorgie.
Georgia

La orden judicial contra cinco ONG independientes es un golpe para la libertad de asociación (Amnistía Internacional, 2025)
Atacar a quienes luchan por la justicia y contra la corrupción es contrario a las obligaciones contraídas por Georgia en virtud del derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, que incluyen los relativos a la libertad de expresión y de asociación.
Georgia

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says - Carrington, Damian (The Guardian, 2025)
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised.
United Kingdom
Keywords: Climate crisis; Climate science; Climate science scepticism and denial; Environment; World news

‘What are perpetrators actually doing, and to whom?’ A call to focus on the actions of perpetrators of mass atrocities - Kersten, Mark (Justice in Conflict, 2025)
The book follows different perpetrator types - people who commit illegitimate and illegal mass violence can be understood as belonging to different categories and that those can be both defined and bounded. These categories span different levels of authority and power, and often reflect different motivations: the criminal mastermind, the careerist, the profiteer, the follower, the fanatic, etc.
Worldwide

China Unleashes Hackers Against Its Friend Russia, Seeking War Secrets - Rajagopalan, Megha (The New York Times, 2025)
Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.
Russian Federation
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Cyberattacks and Hackers; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Federal Security Service; International Relations; Politics and Government; Putin; Vladimir V; Russia; Xi Jinping

China Unleashes Hackers Against Its Friend Russia, Seeking War Secrets - Rajagopalan, Megha (The New York Times, 2025)
Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.
China
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Cyberattacks and Hackers; Cyberwarfare and Defense; Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Federal Security Service; International Relations; Politics and Government; Putin; Vladimir V; Russia; Xi Jinping

Rwanda and DR Congo agree draft peace deal to end conflict - Rukanga, Basillioh (BBC, 2025)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to witness the formal signing of the peace deal next week.
Democratic Republic of Congo
Keywords: Rwanda

French champagne makers face human trafficking trial - Schofield, Hugh (BBC, 2025)
Three people are accused of exploiting dozens of workers in the heart of champagne country.
France

Words Are Not Enough. Concrete Action Needed to Stop Israel’s Extermination of Palestinians (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The Commission of Inquiry’s vital new report documenting Israeli forces’ systematic destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, including educational, religious, and cultural sites, and war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, underscores the long overdue need for concrete actions to stop the Israeli government’s atrocities and hold perpetrators to account.
Worldwide

Live Facial Recognition Treats Everyone as a Potential Suspect, Undermining Privacy and Eroding Presumed Innocence - CIVICUS (Inter Press Service, 2025)
The rapid expansion of live facial recognition technology across the UK raises urgent questions about civil liberties and democratic freedoms.
United Kingdom

Open-Source Information Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond - Koenig, Alexa, Andrea Richardson (Just Security, 2025)
Digital open source data can be ethically deployed to strengthen investigations and prosecutions on gender crimes in Iran and elsewhere.
Iran

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs - Nguyen, Jessie, Katherine Dailey (ProPublica, 2025)
The agency declined to quickly release documents that would identify drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign factories. The request was part of ProPublica’s ongoing investigation into the safety of America’s generic drug supply.
United States of America

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions - Richardson, Allissa V. (The Conversation, 2025)
The legacy of Darnella Frazier recording George Floyd’s murder is visible in today’s Latino communities using smartphones to witness the violence and aggression of ICE raids.
United States of America

Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive (The Signal, 2025)
The goal of the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive is primarily to ensure the long-term preservation of web materials which relate to GIS software and spatial data file formats. Gone are the days of getting software on a CD, accompanied by a thick booklet of documentation and instruction. Geospatial software companies and organizations now simply publish their documentation online and often only keep documentation available for the most recent version of their software. Given that one of the Geography & Map Division’s goals is to document the evolution of computer cartography and geographic information systems, it is part of our mission to capture how this geospatial software is changing over time.
United States of America