Activistas digitales indígenas en México afirman su autodeterminación frente a la inteligencia artificial - Mercedes Caso (Rising Voices en Español, 2025)
¿Qué significa la inteligencia artificial para las lenguas indígenas de México? Durante dos días, activistas digitales reflexionaron sobre cómo estas tecnologías pueden revitalizar o amenazar sus idiomas y culturas.

Excuses officielles, restitutions, indemnisations : mieux panser les plaies du colonialisme - ONU Info (ONU Info, 2025)
Réparer les séquelles de l'esclavage et du colonialisme est essentiel pour briser le racisme systémique et les inégalités qui frappent les personnes d'ascendance africaine à travers le monde, affirme l’ONU dans un rapport publié mercredi.

‘Smart’ (or Machiavellian?) surveillance: The power of terminology - Tactical Tech (Global Voices, 2025)
The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”

‘Reparatory justice’ key to ending racism against Africans and their descendants - UN News (UN News, 2025)
Governments, academia and other stakeholders must “double down on delivering reparatory justice” for people from the African diaspora, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Wednesday.

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia

‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Abdi, Sundus (The Guardian, 2025)
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Heritage; Museums; Somalia

Grupo de usuarios Wikimedia en tyap de Nigeria revitalizan su lengua con herramientas y plataformas digitales - Abdulrosheed Fadipe (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
"Sueño con un futuro en el que los niños crezcan hablando tyap porque sus padres les hablan en esa lengua durante su infancia".

More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office - Boffey, Daniel (The Guardian, 2025)
Watchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimate
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Law; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Superinjunctions; UK news; World news

More than 7,300 Afghans to be resettled in UK after MoD data leak, says National Audit Office - Boffey, Daniel (The Guardian, 2025)
Watchdog’s report says government is unable to calculate exact cost of response to data breach, raising doubt over £850m estimate
Keywords: Afghanistan; Data protection; Law; Ministry of Defence; Politics; Superinjunctions; UK news; World news

Marshall Islands picks up the pieces after fire destroys its ‘heart of democracy’ - Letman, Jon (The Guardian, 2025)
The slow process to rebuild parliament, the Nitijela, begins as the Pacific nation confronts the loss of a vital cultural landmark
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Marshall Islands; Pacific islands; World news

Les autocrates n’agissent plus comme Hitler ou Staline, ils gouvernent par la manipulation - Treisman, Daniel (The Conversation, 2025)
Les autocrates contemporains sont passés maîtres dans l’art de la manipulation des médias et de l’opinion. Ils évitent la répression brutale ou la violence ouverte et préservent les apparences de la démocratie – tout en la vidant de sa substance

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State - Yuan, Li (The New York Times, 2025)
Before fleeing China, an activist in Chongqing staged an elaborate one-man demonstration against the Communist Party that doubled as performance art.
Keywords: China; Chongqing (China); Communist Party of China; Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Performance Art; Politics and Government; Surveillance of Citizens by Government

Government, affiliated forces extrajudicially executed dozens of Druze people in Suwayda (Amnesty International, 2025)
Amnesty International documented the deliberate shooting and killing of 46 Druze people  (44 men and two women), as well as the mock execution of two older persons in Suwayda.

Gender data for good? Partnerships between tech companies and humanitarian and development organizations - Cookson, Tara Patricia; Carlitz, Ruth (Big Data & Society, 2025)
In 2013, the United Nations called for a “Data Revolution” to advance sustainable development. “Data for Good” initiatives that have followed bring together development and humanitarian actors with technology companies. Few studies have examined the composition of Data for Good partnerships or assessed the uptake and use of the data they generate.

Palestine as provenance: archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon - Ghaddar, J. J. (Archival Science, 2025)
How can we archive against genocide in Gaza and its extension elsewhere in Palestine and surrounding countries like Lebanon in this urgent moment while avoiding the pitfalls of white guilt and paternalistic benevolence?

Palestine as provenance: archiving against genocide from Gaza to South Lebanon - Ghaddar, J. J. (Archival Science, 2025)
How can we archive against genocide in Gaza and its extension elsewhere in Palestine and surrounding countries like Lebanon in this urgent moment while avoiding the pitfalls of white guilt and paternalistic benevolence?

Bristol returns cultural artefacts taken from Larrakia people in Australia - Morris, Steven (The Guardian, 2025)
Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museum
Keywords: Australia news; Bristol; Culture; Darwin; Indigenous Australians; Museums; Northern Territory; UK news; World news

Bristol returns cultural artefacts taken from Larrakia people in Australia - Morris, Steven (The Guardian, 2025)
Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museum
Keywords: Australia news; Bristol; Culture; Darwin; Indigenous Australians; Museums; Northern Territory; UK news; World news

A Guide To Monitoring Conflict Amidst a Sea of Misinformation - Sitlhou, Makepeace (bellingcat, 2025)
How does one monitor a conflict zone on the brink of civil war, especially in a region which is difficult to access, experiences frequent internet shutdowns and where misinformation is common? In this guide, we outline the open source tools and methods we can use to evidence what is really happening in many such conflict settings.

Curating the Colonial Past - Linebaugh, Riley (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
The ‘Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History.

Archiving memories of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia - Wahyuningroem, Sri Lestari (Inside Indonesia, 2025)
Poor archival conditions have meant that the identification of victims, their experiences and their needs is incredibly difficult

When Historians Rediscovered These Frederick Douglass Letters, They Were Surprised by His Candid Opinions About Abraham Lincoln - White, Lucas; Morel, Jonathan W. (Smithsonian Magazine, 2025)
In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson.

Les États-Unis ne participeront pas à l’évaluation de leur bilan des droits de la personne - Agence France-Presse (Radio-Canada, 2025)
Les États-Unis ont informé les Nations unies qu'ils ne prendraient pas part à la prochaine évaluation de leur bilan en matière de droits de la personne aux Nations unies.

Derrière le “pas décisif” de l’Algérie pour les droits des femmes, l’accusation de “double jeu” - Ben Salem, Malik (Courrier International, 2025)
Les femmes algériennes disposeront désormais des mêmes droits que les hommes en matière de liberté de circulation et de choix de lieu de résidence, grâce à la levée début août de la réserve sur l’article 15-4 de la Cedaw, revendiquée de longue date par les féministes. Mais cette décision “historique” pourrait rester “lettre morte” si la législation interne ne suit pas.

Torture, colonialisme, résistance : quand Frantz Fanon exposait l'horreur de la guerre d'Algérie dans son discours d'Accra en 1960 - Chauvet, Diego (L'Humanité, 2025)
Dans un discours prononcé à Accra (Ghana) en août 1960, Frantz Fanon révélait la véritable nature de la guerre en cours en Algérie. Ce document, que l'on croyait perdu, vient de ressurgir des archives des services du contre-espionnage français, de la diplomatie italienne, et du sociologue et militant Immanuel Wallerstein.

Torture, colonialisme, résistance : quand Frantz Fanon exposait l'horreur de la guerre d'Algérie dans son discours d'Accra en 1960 - Chauvet, Diego (L'Humanité, 2025)
Dans un discours prononcé à Accra (Ghana) en août 1960, Frantz Fanon révélait la véritable nature de la guerre en cours en Algérie. Ce document, que l'on croyait perdu, vient de ressurgir des archives des services du contre-espionnage français, de la diplomatie italienne, et du sociologue et militant Immanuel Wallerstein.

Colonisation belge au Congo : cette propagande raciste qui a marqué notre imaginaire - Saint-Amand, François (RTBF Actus, 2025)
Mission civilisatrice, enrichissement personnel et exploitation des ressources, violence coloniale, réhabilitation. La colonisation belge du Congo a fait l’objet d’une lente évolution dans l’historiographie contemporaine. Avec pour conséquence une image édulcorée et tenace de la colonisation dans l’imaginaire collectif des citoyens belges. L’auteur et analyste politique Eric Van den Abeele revisite un siècle d’histoire coloniale belge au Congo en s’appuyant sur un matériau redoutablement efficace : les images de propagande.

Colonisation belge au Congo : cette propagande raciste qui a marqué notre imaginaire - Saint-Amand, François (RTBF Actus, 2025)
Mission civilisatrice, enrichissement personnel et exploitation des ressources, violence coloniale, réhabilitation. La colonisation belge du Congo a fait l’objet d’une lente évolution dans l’historiographie contemporaine. Avec pour conséquence une image édulcorée et tenace de la colonisation dans l’imaginaire collectif des citoyens belges. L’auteur et analyste politique Eric Van den Abeele revisite un siècle d’histoire coloniale belge au Congo en s’appuyant sur un matériau redoutablement efficace : les images de propagande.

Massacre de l'armée coloniale au Niger : derrière le mea culpa de Macron, la continuité d’un récit historique biaisé - Gerits (The Conversation, 2025)
Le 19 juin 2025, le représentant permanent de la France auprès des Nations unies a reconnu que Paris était ouvert au dialogue avec le Niger et prêt à collaborer avec des chercheurs spécialisés afin de mettre en place une coopération patrimoniale permettant la restitution au Niger des objets culturels volés.

Massacre de l'armée coloniale au Niger : derrière le mea culpa de Macron, la continuité d’un récit historique biaisé - Gerits, Franz (The Conversation, 2025)
Le 19 juin 2025, le représentant permanent de la France auprès des Nations unies a reconnu que Paris était ouvert au dialogue avec le Niger et prêt à collaborer avec des chercheurs spécialisés afin de mettre en place une coopération patrimoniale permettant la restitution au Niger des objets culturels volés.

'Une reconnaissance à minima': quels enjeux après la lettre de Macron reconnaissant que 'la France a mené une guerre' au Cameroun? - Eboulé, Christian (TV5MONDE - Informations, 2025)
Dans une lettre adressée à son homologue camerounais Paul Biya et rendue publique le 12 août dernier, le président français Emmanuel Macron reconnaît officiellement que la France a mené une guerre au Cameroun entre 1955 et 1971.

Projet MK-Ultra sur le lavage de cerveau - Desgagné, Marie-Laurence (La Presse, 2025)
Aux côtés d’autres familles de victimes de traitements expérimentaux effectués à Montréal pour le compte de la CIA, Julie Tanny se bat depuis plusieurs années pour obtenir justice. La Cour supérieure du Québec a autorisé jeudi leur action collective.

After 160 years of Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Indigenous voices are finally being heard - Lublin, Geraldine (The Conversation, 2025)
The first Welsh settlers landed on the shores of what is today the Province of Chubut, in Argentinean Patagonia, on 28 July 1865. A major aspect of the settlement that is celebrated is the unique friendship with the Indigenous Tehuelche that the Welsh immigrants would have struck up.

Remembering genocide in Srebrenica through the lens of Kristian Skeie - Farrant, Theo (euronews, 2025)
Photographer Kristian Skeie’s ongoing project documents life in the aftermath of the genocide in Srebrenica, capturing the quiet resilience of survivors and the enduring scars of Europe’s worst atrocity since WWII.

South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates - Canneti, Tom (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.

The poetics of protest - Keith Ang'ana (Africa is a Country, 2025)
From rooftop beginnings to open mics that echo on the streets, Kenya’s newest literary collective shows how art can archive struggle and energize dissent.

Canada’s Archives Are in Trouble—and So Is Its History - Bourrie, Mark (The Walrus, 2025)
Years-long delays, archaic privacy laws, and chronic underfunding are threatening Canada's national memory.

Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation - Treisman, Daniel (The Conversation, 2025)
Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a ‘spin dictatorship.’

ICA SAHR Tuesday Talks - Filming trials for crimes against humanity in France: between the fight against impunity and memorial issues - ICA International Council on Archives; Martine Sin Blima-Barru (2025)

Harass Human Rights Watch Staff Member - . (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
The Kenyan police should end its apparent harassment of Otsieno Namwaya, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, over his work documenting serious rights abuses in Kenya.

Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: Two Decades of the Guatemalan Police Archive - . (Sri Lanka Guardian, 2025)
Twenty years ago, a team of human rights investigators in Guatemala made a discovery that would change the course of the country’s reckoning with its violent past.

What Brazil’s digital fight means for free expression in the Global South - . (Global Voices, 2025)
Brazil’s push to regulate Big Tech and protect digital rights is reshaping global debates and provoking backlash from powerful actors opposed to its rights-based, democratic model of internet governance.

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” - Dudley, Renee (ProPublica, 2025)
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” - Dudley, Renee (ProPublica, 2025)
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.

Hurricane Katrina victim identified 20 years later: ‘finally where she belongs’ - Vargas, Ramon Antonio (The Guardian, 2025)
Guardian US partner WWL Louisiana called in Ray Theriot, who used utility bills, driver’s licenses and property records
Keywords: Hurricane Katrina; Louisiana; New Orleans; US news

‘Social, peripheral and photographic justice for whom?’: A Brazilian photographer asks questions - Agência Mural (Global Voices, 2025)
Works that highlight the violence against Black bodies, exalt beauty in the midst of chaos, [show] the exotic, are still common representations of poverty, and what translates into saleable art.

‘Omada Alithias’ and the rise of Greece’s propaganda machine - Elvis Takahashi Mantello (Global Voices, 2025)
Despite their name, Omada Alithias, the so-called Truth Team, has done more to distort than defend the truth, reflecting the normalization of digital authoritarianism in democratic states.

Israel destruye último banco de semillas sobreviviente, haciéndose eco del legado colonial de borrado. - Walid El Houri (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
La destrucción por parte de Israel del banco de semillas de Hebrón repite siglos de tácticas coloniales de asentamiento en todo el mundo: borrar los sistemas alimentarios autóctonos para dominar la tierra, el conocimiento y la memoria colectiva.

Israel destruye último banco de semillas sobreviviente, haciéndose eco del legado colonial de borrado. - Walid El Houri (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
La destrucción por parte de Israel del banco de semillas de Hebrón repite siglos de tácticas coloniales de asentamiento en todo el mundo: borrar los sistemas alimentarios autóctonos para dominar la tierra, el conocimiento y la memoria colectiva.

ICJ and human rights defenders from Southeast Asia urge a Rights-Based Approach to Countering Harmful Online Content - . (International Commission of Jurists, 2025)
On 24–26 August 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Centre for Independent Journalism, Malaysia (CIJ), and the Numun Fund, gathered human rights defenders and experts to discuss the need for Southeast Asian States to adopt and implement a human rights-based approach in efforts to tackle the growing spread of harmful content in digital spaces.

National Identification and Registration Authority says NIDS remains safe, no security breach - . (Jamaica Gleaner, 2025)
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), which oversees the National Identification System (NIDS), is reporting that there has been no evidence of a breach or compromise of the national identification system.

When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data - Bennett, Nicole M. (The Conversation, 2025)
Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

Two alphabets, one struggle: How Kurdish communities are building a digital future - Eduardo Avila (Global Voices, 2025)
Kurdish Wikimedian Mohammed Sardar shares why he creates digital content to preserve his native language.

Brazil One Step Away from Protecting Children Online - Hye Jung Han (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Brazil’s Senate has passed a long-awaited bill to protect children’s rights online. The bill now heads for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s signature into law.

The Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) 2025 - . (Access Now, 2025)
AICB Centre for Excellence, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) 2025 is a pivotal gathering of digital rights

Privacy in peril: safeguarding digital data in humanitarian blockchain initiatives - Alex Bornstein; Elise Hamdon (Humanitarian Practice Network, 2025)
Exploring the risks of blockchain in aid delivery and why protecting digital privacy is essential for refugees and crisis-affected communities.

Devastated families may take legal action over museum that kept body parts - Lohberger, Loretta (ABC News, 2025)
A University of Tasmania pathology museum retained and displayed body parts without consent from coronial autopsies. The specimens are from more than 100 people who died in Tasmania between 1953 and 1985. The Coroner's Office is investigating and has spent years reconciling their records with the museum's records.
Keywords: Medical Ethics; autopsy; body parts; coroners office; pathology

Elon Musk’s Doge put sensitive social security data at risk, whistleblower says - Robins-Early, Nick (The Guardian, 2025)
SSA official alleges that Doge staff uploaded personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans to vulnerable cloud server
Keywords: Data protection; Elon Musk; Privacy; Technology; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US social security

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Germany charges US citizen with spying for China - Chris Lunday (POLITICO, 2025)
An American defense contractor is accused of offering military secrets to Beijing.

Privacy at a cost: the dark web’s main browser helps pedophile networks flourish, experts say - McQue, Katie (The Guardian, 2025)
The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material
Keywords: Child protection; Children; Rape and sexual assault; Technology; Tor

Addressing Inequitable Openness in Licences for Sharing African Data and Datasets Through the Nwulite Obodo Open Data Licence - Okorie, Chijioke I.; Omino, Melissa (Law, Technology and Humans, 2025)
Standard Public Open Licences (SPOLs) may unintentionally reinforce exclusion and enable extractive data practices that disadvantage communities contributing valuable datasets that they have preserved and curated through historically challenging conditions.
Keywords: datasets

Denialist appointed at rights center that oversees ESMA museum - Herald, Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Herald, 2025)
The center operates in the memorial site at the notorious former Navy School of Mechanics, where nearly 5,000 people were kidnapped and disappeared by Argentina’s dictatorship

A living archive: 42 Indigenous languages in Bangladesh preserved under one online portal - Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Global Voices, 2025)
A new digital repository preserves Bangladesh’s linguistic heritage, featuring words, phrases, and IPA transcriptions from 42 indigenous languages, aiming to promote understanding and celebrate the nation’s cultural diversity.

Indigenous digital activists in Mexico assert their self-determination with regard to artificial intelligence - Mercedes Caso (Global Voices, 2025)
What does artificial intelligence mean for Mexico's Indigenous languages? For two days, digital activists reflected on how these technologies can revitalize or threaten their languages and cultures.

Donor crisis prompts rethink on humanitarian data partnership rules - Geneva Solutions - Paula Dupraz-Dobias (Geneva Solutions, 2025)
Under pressure from aid cuts, humanitarian groups may be exposing themselves and people they serve to privacy risks as they seek support from the private sector to improve efficiency. As artificial intelligence gains ground, experts say the rules of the game are due for a rethink.

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable - Small, Zachary (The New York Times, 2025)
The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.
Keywords: Art; Bunch, Lonnie G III; Museums; Smithsonian Institution; Trump, Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Invisible Displacement: The Unregistered and Uncounted - Thematic Analysis - . (ReliefWeb, 2025)
Invisible displacement is a growing yet under-recognized phenomenon in humanitarian settings. This report explores the structural, operational, and political factors that obscure the presence of displaced persons who remain outside formal tracking systems, such as IDPs living outside camps, unregistered returnees, nomadic groups, or those who deliberately avoid institutional engagement due to protection concerns. Their invisibility skews humanitarian planning, which can lead to inaccurate data, underfunded programs, and systemic exclusion from life-saving services.

Trump administration to review all 55m US visa holders for potential rule violations - Campbell, Lucy (The Guardian, 2025)
State department says all people who hold valid US visas are subject to ‘continuous vetting’, including of social media
Keywords: Marco Rubio; Trump administration; US immigration; US news; US politics

Open Data and Equity: Naming the Issues, Blaming the Causes, and Claiming Solutions. An Exploratory and Interdisciplinary Systematic Literature Review - Santoro, Caterina; Flores, Cesar Casiano; Zuiderwijk, Anneke; Crompvoets, Joep (Information Polity, 2025)
Open data fall short of their goal to empower all social groups equally. Although the literature examines this issue through the concept of inclusion, substantial gaps remain in defining and understanding the implications of open data for equity in public administration, with research on this topic scattered across disciplines. This fragmentation hinders the possibility of evaluating public policies.

The Emotional Textures of the Archive – AHA - Alisa Kuzmina (Historians.org, 2025)
Alisa Kuzmina reflects on the overlap between her marriage green card experience and her research on Cold War–era immigration.

Huawei's reach in Spain sparks widespread concern over state infiltration - Fernández-Pontes, Inés (Euractiv, 2025)
Magistrates and law enforcement are particularly worried about the Chinese firm handling highly sensitive police wiretap data

Huawei's reach in Spain sparks widespread concern over state infiltration - Fernández-Pontes, Inés (Euractiv, 2025)
Magistrates and law enforcement are particularly worried about the Chinese firm handling highly sensitive police wiretap data

In Bolivia, Indigenous radio stations are at the mercy of cyberhacks - Nicaela León Coico (Global Voices, 2025)
The Facebook page of a major Quechua-speaking community radio station in Bolivia was hacked and it lost tens of thousands of followers.

The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype - Editorial (The Guardian, 2025)
Editorial: The UK’s plans seem to outsource sovereignty for phantom efficiency. Public services provide the data and power while US tech giants reap the rewards
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Business; Cloud computing; Computing; Economics; Global economy; NHS; Open source; Peter Kyle; Politics; Society; Technology; UK news

Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme - Ali, Faisal (The Guardian, 2025)
Breach at Inflite The Jet Centre is latest in series of leaks involving private information of Afghan refugees
Keywords: Afghanistan; Cybercrime; Hacking; Immigration and asylum; Ministry of Defence; Refugees; UK news

Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme - Ali, Faisal (The Guardian, 2025)
Breach at Inflite The Jet Centre is latest in series of leaks involving private information of Afghan refugees
Keywords: Afghanistan; Cybercrime; Hacking; Immigration and asylum; Ministry of Defence; Refugees; UK news

NHS to trial AI tool that speeds up hospital discharges - Grierson, Jamie (The Guardian, 2025)
Pilot at Chelsea and Westminster trust aims to reduce paperwork and free up doctors, as the UK moves to improve public services via AI
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Computing; Health; Hospitals; Labour; London; NHS; Technology; UK news; Wes Streeting

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico - . (The Guardian, 2025)
US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades
Keywords: Americas; Mexico; US crime; US news; World news

FBI returns stolen document signed by conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico - . (The Guardian, 2025)
US officials did not say who had the 16th-century page that was missing from Mexico’s archives for decades
Keywords: Americas; Mexico; US crime; US news; World news

London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war - Bakare, Lanre; Arts, Lanre Bakare; correspondent, culture (The Guardian, 2025)
National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies
Keywords: British army; Culture; Exhibitions; Myanmar; Second world war; South and central Asia; UK news

Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram, alleging apps used for fraud and terrorism - . (The Guardian, 2025)
Calls via foreign-owned platforms curbed as critics say Kremlin is pushing for greater control over Russia’s internet
Keywords: Censorship; Digital media; Europe; Internet; Russia; Social media; Technology; Telegram; Vladimir Putin; WhatsApp; World news

Working to Improve Access to Compensation for Iraqi victims of War and Terrorism - . (ReliefWeb, 2025)
No one should be excluded from rebuilding their life due to missing documentation or inefficient mechanism. This principle guided a high-level roundtable held in Baghdad with the participation of members of the Iraqi Parliament, including representatives from the Legal, Finance, and Displacement Committees, alongside the judiciary and the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.

U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach - Dearden, Lizzie (The New York Times, 2025)
After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.
Keywords: Afghanistan; Decisions and Verdicts; Freedom of Speech and Expression; Freedom of the Press; Great Britain; London (England); News and News Media; Politics and Government

France acknowledges role in repression of Cameroon independence movements - Egbejule, Eromo; correspondent, Eromo Egbejule West Africa (The Guardian, 2025)
Emmanuel Macron writes to Cameroonian president with findings of joint commission on country’s colonial past
Keywords: Africa; Cameroon; Colonialism; Europe; France; World news

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it - Ginsberg, Jodie (The Guardian, 2025)
The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Middle East and north Africa; Newspapers & magazines; Press freedom; US news

Israel is wiping out Gaza’s journalists – and it’s no longer even hiding it - Ginsberg, Jodie (The Guardian, 2025)
The laws of war are clear: journalists are civilians. To target them deliberately in war is to commit a war crime
Keywords: Gaza; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Journalist safety; Media; Middle East and north Africa; Newspapers & magazines; Press freedom; US news

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - Roberston, Miguel Ramalho, Erin Clark, Paddy (bellingcat, 2025)
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

Police should disclose ethnicity of suspects in certain cases, new guidance says - Syal, Rajeev (The Guardian, 2025)
Releasing nationality and ethnicity details could help keep peace ‘where there are high levels of disinformation’
Keywords: Crime; Police; UK criminal justice; UK news

Slaying and Censoring the Journalists: The Murder of Anas al-Sharif - Kampmark, Binoy (International Policy Digest, 2025)
Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza exemplifies a deliberate campaign of silencing journalists.

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies - Montague, Zach (The New York Times, 2025)
The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration.
Keywords: Data Storage; Decisions and Verdicts; Federal Courts (US); Privacy; Richardson, Julius N; Trump, Donald J; United States Politics and Government

Are Undersea Cables a “Backdoor for Espionage” Against the U.S.? - Tom Nagorski (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Chinese companies leading in the production and maintenance of undersea cables could be a national security threat to this critical undersea infrastructure.

Are Undersea Cables a “Backdoor for Espionage” Against the U.S.? - Tom Nagorski (The Cipher Brief, 2025)
Chinese companies leading in the production and maintenance of undersea cables could be a national security threat to this critical undersea infrastructure.

Saved from militants, Timbuktu's famed manuscripts return home after 13 years in Mali's capital - . (CityNews Halifax, 2025)
The Malian military government started returning home the historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, which were spirited out of their fabled northern city when it was occupied by al-Qaida-linked militants more than a decade ago. Islamic radicals destroyed more than 4,000 manuscripts, some dating back to the 13th century.

The Palestinian Museum Announces the Release of Over 6,000 New Archival Items on its Digital Archive - . (Palestinian Museum, 2025)
The Palestinian Museum has announced the release of over 6,000 archival items on its website as part of the third phase of its Digital Archive Project, through which more than 19,000 items have been digitized, as part of its ongoing efforts to preserve and document Palestinian social history.

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine
Keywords: Art and design; Ceramics; Culture; Europe; Exhibitions; France; Gaza; Israel-Gaza war; Middle East and north Africa; Palestinian territories; Paris; World news

The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit - Lorenz, Taylor (The Guardian, 2025)
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
Keywords: Child protection; Internet; Internet safety; Technology; UK news; US news

Espacios digitales para la lengua quechua: Seguridad e inclusión en línea - Rising Voices (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
El contenido digital en lengua quechua sigue estando cada vez más disponible, y las comunidades quechuahablantes acceden a más oportunidades para representarse mejor en línea y conectarse a pesar de las barreras geográficas. Sin embargo, mientras este contenido crece, también crecen los desafíos para garantizar que estos espacios digitales sean inclusivos, seguros y representativos, entre otras cosas, a través de moderación de contenido en redes sociales.

When Brussels’ Watchdog Eats Its Homework - Walker, Gerald (International Policy Digest, 2025)
A whistleblower alleges that European Public Prosecutor Laura Codruța Kövesi and her deputy destroyed evidence to shield political allies, undermining the EU’s anti-corruption mission.

Tyap Wikimedia User Group: Revitalizing Nigeria's Tyap language with digital tools and platforms - Abdulrosheed Fadipe (Global Voices, 2025)
"I dream about a future where children grow up speaking Tyap because their parents speak the language to them during childhood."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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.

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 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.

‘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?
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?
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.
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
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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

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.

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’
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’
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
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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
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
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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

#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.

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.

‘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
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 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.

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.
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.

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.
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.”

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data - Burke, Renee Dudley, Doris (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.

Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data - Burke, Renee Dudley, Doris (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.

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.

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
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.

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.

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
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
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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.
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.

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.

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
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
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.

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.
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.

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.

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

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

‘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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.

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
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.

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
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ».

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
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.

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.