Des images satellite révèlent que la ville de Khuzaa a été entièrement rasée en mai 2025, nouvelle preuve des destructions injustifiées et du génocide commis par Israël dans la bande de Gaza (Amnesty International, 2025)
L’analyse d’images satellite et la vérification de séquences vidéo par Amnesty International révèlent que les forces israéliennes ont complètement rasé ce qui restait de la ville de Khuzaa, dans le sud de la bande de Gaza occupée, en l’espace de deux semaines en mai 2025.

Imágenes de satélite revelan la aniquilación de Khuza’a en mayo de 2025 y constituyen nuevos indicios de destrucción arbitraria y genocidio por parte de Israel en Gaza (Amnistía Internacional, 2025)
El análisis de imágenes de satélite y la verificación de material fílmico realizados por Amnistía Internacional revelan que las fuerzas israelíes arrasaron por completo lo que quedaba de la localidad de Khuza'a, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza ocupada, durante dos semanas en mayo de 2025.

Total razing of Khuza’a further evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza (Amnesty International, 2025)
Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025.

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked - Alberge, Dalya (The Guardian, 2025)
Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency
Keywords: Books; British Library; British Museum; Culture; Libraries; Oscar Wilde; UK news

En RDC, l'extension des mines provoque le déplacement de population à Kolwezi (RFI, 2025)
En RDC, la Mining Week de Lubumbashi s'est ouverte mercredi 11 juin. Des organisations de la société civile dénoncent le déplacement des populations de Kolwezi. Connue comme la capitale mondiale du cobalt, la ville est chaque année un peu plus grignotée par l'exploitation industrielle du minerai. Ce déplacement de population entraîne une inflation dont les populations sont les premières victimes.

L'ONU dénombre 122 millions de personnes déplacées de force par la guerre ou les violences (Franceinfo, 2025)
Ce bilan, fin avril, est en hausse par rapport à avril 2024, mais en baisse par rapport à décembre 2024, notamment car de nombreux réfugiés syriens sont retournés en Syrie après la chute de Bachar al-Assad. À la mi-mai, l'ONU estime que plus de 500 000 Syriens sont rentrés au pays, sur un total d'environ 1,2 million de déplacés internes retournés dans leur région d'origine depuis la fin novembre. Le Soudan, où la guerre civile fait rage depuis la mi-avril 2023, est désormais le pays qui compte le plus de déplacés de force, avec un total de 14,3 millions de personnes. Malgré les retours, la Syrie compte toujours 13,5 millions de réfugiés et déplacés internes, suivie de l'Afghanistan (10,3 millions) et de l'Ukraine (8,8 millions).

Légère baisse du nombre de déplacés de force, grâce au retour des Syriens chez eux (France 24, 2025)
Dans son rapport annuel publié jeudi, le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies aux réfugiés chiffre à 122,1 millions le nombre de déplacés de force dans le monde. Un chiffre en légère baisse par rapport à fin 2024 en raison de la chute de Bachar al-Assad en Syrie, qui a permis le retour de nombreux déplacés.

Face à "l'hypocrisie d'un certain nombre de pays", le Vanuatu porte le combat climatique en justice, prévient son ministre de l'Environnement - Coralie Cochin (France Info, 2025)
Désabusé d'essayer de convaincre les Etats d'agir, ce petit archipel du Pacifique est déterminé à "tout tenter" pour éviter d'être englouti par la montée des eaux. Son ministre de l'environnement a accordé un entretien à l'AFP, en marge de la Conférence des Nations unies sur les océans à Nice.

Document goes missing in police torture case - Gontsana, By Mary-Anne (GroundUp News, 2025)
One of the three police officers on trial for the assault of a barber during a raid at his workplace in Mowbray in 2023 intends to plead guilty to the charge of torture. However, proceedings could not continue at the Wynberg Regional Court in Cape Town on Thursday because the officer’s plea proposal had gone missing.

European journalists targeted with Paragon Solutions spyware, say researchers - Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Giuffrida, Angela (The Guardian, 2025)
Citizen Lab says it found ‘digital fingerprints’ of military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted using against activists
Keywords: Data and computer security; Espionage; Europe; Giorgia Meloni; Italy; Malware; Media; Press freedom; Technology; World news

Ethiopia Should Immediately Release Prominent Journalist - Laetitia Bader (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Ethiopian authorities have been detaining the renowned journalist Tesfalem Woldeyes since Sunday on allegations of “dissemination false information,” despite a court order to release him on bail.

The omnipresent danger facing Gaza’s journalists (2025)
At least 176 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023. The danger feels omnipresent for Maha Hussaini, a journalist and human rights advocate. In this conversation, Maha takes us inside the day-to-day reality of working and surviving amidst unimaginable violence, destruction, and deprivation. She describes how journalists in the Gaza Strip live with the constant fear that they could be killed at any moment, yet remain determined to document the unfolding catastrophe as long as they can.

From Washington’s burned letters to Trump’s missing transcripts, partial presidential records limit people’s full understanding of history - O'Brien, Shannon Bow (The Conversation, 2025)
A nation’s history is told by its records. The White House no longer publishing Trump’s full remarks makes this history less complete.

La parité entre femmes et hommes sera atteinte dans 123 ans, selon le Forum économique mondial - Parrino, Beatrice (Le Point, 2025)
La parité entre femmes et hommes sera atteinte… dans 123 ans. Le Global Gender Gap Report 2025 indique une réduction de l’écart, mais souligne que des obstacles à l’égalité persistent, et s’inquiète des risques liés aux avancées technologiques. Si l'on en croit les chiffres…, la tendance est encourageante : l'écart entre les femmes et les hommes se réduit, atteignant 68,8 % ; un bond significatif depuis la pandémie. Mais ne nous emballons pas trop vite ! Les auteurs de l'étude soulignent que si l'on maintient le rythme actuel, l'égalité totale ne sera une réalité que dans… 123 ans !

El pueblo mapuche como ejemplo de lucha de protección de las costas marinas - Riaño, Astrid Puentes (El País, 2025)
La conferencia de la ONU que se celebra en estos días en Niza es una oportunidad real para reconocer y responder a la urgencia a la que se enfrentan los mares y para contribuir realmente a detener las actividades que causan su destrucción.Un ejemplo es el pueblo mapuche lafkenche de Chile y sus acciones para proteger su maritorio, como le dicen a su territorio en las costas marinas. La expansión industrial de la producción de salmón, que ha afectado a la biodiversidad local.

Ukraine joins European archival space with 450+ unique digitized records - UkrinForm (Ukrinform, 2025)
More than 450 unique documents from Ukraine’s National Archival Fund have been made publicly available, with annotations in English, on the Archives Portal Europe.

Supreme Court hearing on "Neither confirm nor deny" policy: A landmark case for state secrecy (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
On 11 June 2025, the United Kingdom Supreme Court heard the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s appeal against a Coroner’s decision to disclose a gist of information in the inquest into the 1994 sectarian murder of Paul "Topper" Thompson by loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast, in which there is suspected state collusion.

Supreme Court hearing on "Neither confirm nor deny" policy: A landmark case for state secrecy (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
On 11 June 2025, the United Kingdom Supreme Court heard the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland’s appeal against a Coroner’s decision to disclose a gist of information in the inquest into the 1994 sectarian murder of Paul "Topper" Thompson by loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast, in which there is suspected state collusion.

Gisèle Pelicot settles claim for invasion of privacy against French magazine - Chrisafis, Angelique (The Guardian, 2025)
Pelicot, who became a feminist hero after she decided to waive her right to anonymity in the trial of her former husband and 50 other men last year, took legal action against the publication in April.
Keywords: Europe; France; Gisèle Pelicot; Gisèle Pelicot rape trial; Media; Privacy & the media; World news

La crisis climática agrava la desigualdad en América Latina - Javier Palumno (El País, 2025)
El debilitamiento democrático, el auge del extractivismo y la crisis ambiental ponen en riesgo el futuro de los pueblos de nuestra región.

The Coalition that Preserved Content from Iran’s Protests - Liu, Jessica Peake, Nushin Sarkarati, Kelly (Just Security, 2025)
Woman, Life, Freedom victims and survivors are calling for help. We must amplify their voices and demand justice.

Can crowdsourced maps help save millions from climate disaster? - Maddy Crowell (Grist, 2025)
The group had been recruited by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, or HOT, a nonprofit that uses an open-source data platform called OpenStreetMap to create a map of the world that resembles Google’s with one key exception: Anyone can edit it, making it a sort of Wikipedia for cartographers. The organization has an ambitious goal: Map the world’s unmapped places to help relief workers reach people when the next hurricane, fire, or other crisis strikes.

Malaysian authorities probe organizers of Pride-themed workshop for promoting ‘deviant culture’ - Mong Palatino (Global Voices, 2025)
"We will not stay silent while vulnerable groups are threatened with violence and denied their dignity, whether by the state or by the public."

Pourquoi les femmes souffrent davantage des catastrophes naturelles et des migrations - Zaiter, Shérazade (The Conversation, 2025)
Chaque minute, soixante personnes quittent leur foyer, chassées par des phénomènes extrêmes aggravés par le dérèglement climatique. Pourtant, cet exode massif reste largement ignoré, invisible aux yeux de l’opinion publique et absent des grandes résolutions internationales. Un phénomène sur lequel Shérazade Zaiter lève le voile dans Le Grand Déplacement : l’exode climatique. Découvrez le chapitre de l’ouvrage consacré au sort que connaissent beaucoup trop de femmes durant ces migrations.

Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe (UN News, 2025)
The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip.

Israeli attacks on Gaza schools could be crimes against humanity: UN probe (UN News, 2025)
The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination, a UN investigative body said on Tuesday, as humanitarian agencies warned of continued mass suffering across the Strip.

Monitoring Internal Whistleblowing Systems (Transparency.org, 2025)
A framework for collecting whistleblowing data and reporting on performance and impact.

Before social media, there was shortwave: Lessons from the original information wars - Abhijnan Rej (Lowy Institute, 2025)
There is nothing new in weaponising airwaves to shape hearts and minds across borders.

Malta Migration Archive exposes Malta's 'deadly' refusal to rescue migrants at sea - Balzan, Jurgen (Newsbook, 2025)
A groundbreaking new digital archive launched yesterday in Valletta has laid bare what activists describe as Malta's systematic abandonment of migrants in distress at sea

CFP: Methods for Archival Silence in Early History, American Historical Review - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a range of methodological approaches to archival silence developed by scholars of early history.

Supreme Court to prosecute Attorney General for disclosing confidential information - Fernández-Pontes, Inés (Euractiv, 2025)
Supreme Court probe finds evidence Spain’s top prosecutor leaked confidential data in a politically sensitive case tied to Madrid’s regional government.

University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations - Perkins, Tom (The Guardian, 2025)
Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for months
Keywords: Higher education; Israel-Gaza war; Michigan; Protest; Surveillance; US education; US news; US politics; US universities

Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit - Release, Press (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) disclosure of records to DOGE and its agents.

In a dangerous era for journalism – a powerful new tool to help protect sources - Viner, Katharine (The Guardian, 2025)
Today, the Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation
Keywords: Investigative journalism; Media; Newspapers & magazines; The Guardian

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say - Hoffmann, Anette (The Conversation, 2025)
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.

Climat : Pourquoi l’ouverture des données scientifiques est cruciale pour nos littoraux - Schmitt, Anaïs (The Conversation, 2025)
Dans les zones côtières, les problèmes concernent souvent un grand nombre d’acteurs aux objectifs variés. Leur permettre d’accéder à un socle commun de connaissances est impératif pour trouver des compromis justes.

Menaces sur l’information - Les journalistes gazaouis réclament un statut de victimes à la Cour pénale internationale (RFI, 2025)
Depuis le début de la guerre contre Gaza, près de 200 journalistes palestiniens ont été tués sur place, selon Reporters sans frontières (RSF). L'ONG française a porté plainte auprès de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) et réclame en plus que les reporters puissent bénéficier du statut de victimes auprès de l'instance internationale. Une démarche inédite. Un de ces journalistes actuellement témoin dans la procédure, c'est le photoreporter Mohamed Zaanoun. Il était à Paris cette semaine pour témoigner au nom de ses collègues palestiniens morts et vivants de Gaza.

‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data - Agência Mural (Global Voices, 2025)
Residents of São Paulo's outskirts explained why they chose to give over their personal data to the World ID project. Around 400,000 Brazilians sold their iris data for cryptocurrency.

«Vendí mi iris, ¿y ahora?»: Qué lleva a los brasileños a entregar datos únicos y personales - Agência Mural (Global Voices, 2025)
¿Vender los datos de tu iris? ¿Biometría ocular? Esos términos, nada comunes hasta hace poco tiempo, se volvieron tema de conversación en grupos de amigos, familias e redes sociales, entre comunidades em São Paulo.

How The Times Obtained Secret Russian Intelligence Documents - Judah, Jacob; Sonne, Paul (The New York Times, 2025)
A directive from Russia’s domestic security service was part of a cache that was advertised online by a cybercrime group.
Keywords: China; Classified Information and State Secrets; Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Federal Security Service; International Relations; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Xi Jinping

How Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China’s WeChat App - Krolik, Aaron; Sonne, Paul (The New York Times, 2025)
Moscow has long been suspicious of foreign messaging apps. WeChat’s weak encryption makes it vulnerable.
Keywords: China; Computer Security; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Federal Security Service; Instant Messaging; Mobile Applications; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Surveillance of Citizens by Government; WeChat (Mobile App)

How Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China’s WeChat App - Krolik, Aaron; Sonne, Paul (The New York Times, 2025)
Moscow has long been suspicious of foreign messaging apps. WeChat’s weak encryption makes it vulnerable.
Keywords: China; Computer Security; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Federal Security Service; Instant Messaging; Mobile Applications; Putin, Vladimir V; Russia; Surveillance of Citizens by Government; WeChat (Mobile App)

Les écoles des camps de réfugiés menacées de fermeture faute de financements (RFI, 2025)
Au Bangladesh, l'un des plus grands camps de réfugiés du monde est en crise. Plus d'un million de rohingyas, qui ont fui la répression de l'armée birmane, s'entassent dans des camps du sud du pays. Mais…

Premières découvertes sur le site du cimetière militaire de Thiaroye (RFI, 2025)
Au Sénégal, des archéologues ont découvert des squelettes humains avec des balles dans le corps dans le cimetière militaire de Thiaroye. Des fouilles y sont menées depuis le début du mois de mai pour déterminer si des tirailleurs africains ont été massacrés par l’armée coloniale française le 1er décembre 1944, alors qu’ils réclamaient leurs soldes.

Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist - Amanda Shendruk; Catherine Rampell (The Washington Post, 2025)
When the Trump administration encounters a group it doesn’t respect or care for, oftentimes it just deletes them — specifically, the very record of their existence. For example, when the Defense Department was asked to cull all DEI-related content from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images. A list of the deleted photos was given to the Associated Press. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities.

US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge - Gambino, Lauren (The Guardian, 2025)
Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health records
Keywords: Data protection; Privacy; Technology; Trump administration; US news; US politics; US supreme court

En vue des prochaines élections tchèques, TikTok déploie une équipe anti-désinformation - Zachová, Aneta (Euractiv FR, 2025)
En prévision des élections législatives d’octobre en République tchèque, TikTok a décidé de déployer une équipe de 53 modérateurs locaux chargés de surveiller le contenu sur la plateforme.

TikTok deploys Czech election task force amid disinformation fears - Zachová, Aneta (Euractiv, 2025)
Czech officials are keen to avoid a repeat of the situation in Romania, where TikTok played a role in amplifying the pro-Kremlin candidate Calin Georgescu.

TikTok despliega en Chequia recursos extra para contrarrestar las noticias falsas ante las elecciones - Zachová, Aneta (Euractiv.es, 2025)
Las autoridades checas quieren evitar que se repita la situación de Rumanía, donde TikTok contribuyó a impulsar en redes sociales la candidatura del ultra y pro-Kremlin Calin Georgescu.

Cómo los medios opositores rusos siguen transmitiendo desde el extranjero - Daria Dergacheva (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
"Millones de personas que hablan ruso están listas para respaldar a los medios en los que confían. Con el planteamiento y tono correctos, ese apoyo puede fortalecerse y seguir creciendo".

How Yemen's Houthis are carrying out a campaign of digital repression - Djamel Belayachi (The Observers - France 24, 2025)
Yemen's Houthi rebels have launched an online campaign in an attempt to encourage the population not to share information online, especially about the recent US air strikes.

A Health Privacy ‘Check-Up’: How Unfair Modern Business Practices Can Leave You Under-Informed and Your Most Sensitive Data Ripe for Collection and Sale - Sara Geoghegan (EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2025)
In an era of maximization of data collection, consumers are left to rely on walls of pop-ups and click-throughs as well as broad promises about companies “caring about privacy.” When you track your steps, google your symptoms, or check the price of a prescription, you shouldn’t have to worry about which companies can access and exploit this information in ways that may be completely unrelated to its original purpose.

Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to - Utz, Zachary (STAT, 2025)
The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

Commémorer le massacre de Tiananmen, en dépit du bâillon de Pékin (RFI, 2025)
Ce 4 juin 2025 marque les 36 ans de la répression de la place Tiananmen à Pékin, quand l'armée chinoise réprima dans le sang les manifestations lancées pendant plusieurs semaines par la population pour demander des réformes sociales et économiques. On estime que des milliers de personnes ont été tuées dans la répression de 1989. Aujourdhui, en Chine, impossible de parler de cet événement ou de le commémorer. À Taïwan et dans le reste du monde, en revanche, le souvenir ne s'efface pas.

Censura digital y represión política: Bloquean cuenta de X del encarcelado alcalde de Estambul - Arzu Geybullayeva (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
De acuerdo con Yaman Akdeniz, director de la Asociación para la Libertad de Expresión de Turquía, el bloqueo no fue una sorpresa "ya que cientos de cuentas se han visto afectadas por estas medidas desde el arresto de Imamoglu".

The Seven Year Itch: On the GDPR’s Anniversary, A Look At Its History, Legacy, and Uncertain Future - Calli Schroeder; Maria Villegas Bravo (EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2025)
It’s been seven years since the GDPR came into force, enshrining privacy rights for EU residents and changing the global privacy landscape. Throughout its history, the GDPR has been both lauded and criticized. It has inspired privacy regulations throughout the world and changed the way international companies do business, sometimes to their chagrin.

CFP: Inter- and Transcultural Heritage. Conflicts, Overlaps, Coexistence - Cheryl (Publishing in the Archives Profession, 2025)
Due July 20: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, as part of the FORTHEM Alliance, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for the upcoming Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference, dedicated to exploring cultural heritage within, across, and beyond the European Union’s borders. This year’s theme investigates the dynamics of intercultural, interethnic, and social interactions—especially in regions where boundaries (geographical, political, linguistic, or symbolic) are fluid and contested.

EPIC Commends Oregon for Enacting Heightened Protections for Location, Minors’ Data - Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2025)
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed H.B. 2008, a bill that amends the Oregon Data Privacy Law to ban the sale of precise geolocation data and the data of minors under 16.

Le gouvernement de Pedro Sánchez secoué par un nouveau scandale - Fernández-Pontes, Inés (Euractiv FR, 2025)
Le gouvernement de Pedro Sánchez est accusé de mener une « guerre » contre la principale unité d’enquête de la Guardia Civil, après la publication d’enregistrements audio qui laissent entrevoir une possible tentative de déstabilisation par des proches du pouvoir.

Spanish government rocked by leaked recordings scandal - Inés Fernández-Pontes (Euractiv, 2025)
Leaked recordings suggesting a smear campaign against Spain’s top anti-corruption investigators have sparked accusations of a “dirty war” by Sánchez’s government, fuelling a political crisis.

Judge weighs government’s request to unseal records of FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. - Michael Kunzelman (FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News, 2025)
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.

La veuve d’Alexeï Navalny lance une nouvelle chaine TV pour contrer la propagande du Kremlin - Geslin, Laurent (Euractiv FR, 2025)
Un peu plus d’un an après la mort d’Alexeï Navalny, sa veuve Ioulia Navalnaïa a annoncé le lancement le 4 juin d’une nouvelle chaine de télévision intitulée Future of Russia.

La viuda de Navalni anuncia el lanzamiento de un nuevo canal por satélite para «acercar la verdad» a los rusos - Geslin, Laurent (Euractiv.es, 2025)
El Presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, lleva años desmantelando los medios de comunicación independientes y reforzando el control de la información.

Navalny’s widow launches TV channel to counter Kremlin propaganda - Geslin, Laurent (Euractiv, 2025)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent years dismantling independent media, tightening control over information.

Misinformation versus freedom, rights and science - GroundUp Editors (GroundUp News, 2025)
We are bombarded with more information than ever in history. It is becoming extremely hard to separate fact from nonsense. GroundUp has written an 11-part series called The Right to be Informed.

Hell No: The ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant - Guariglia, Matthew (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
New reporting has revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is attempting to create the Intelligence Community’s Data Consortium–a centralized online marketplace where law enforcement and spy agencies can peruse and buy very personal digital data about you collected.

Démocraties en danger : pourquoi nous minimisons les risques, selon les sciences du comportement - Hertwig, Ralph; Lewandowsky, Stephan (The Conversation, 2025)
La psychologie sociale explique pourquoi le risque d’effondrement démocratique n’est pas suffisamment pris au sérieux par les populations qui vivent en démocratie depuis longtemps. Quels outils mobiliser pour amener à une prise de conscience ? La chute du mur de Berlin en 1989 a ouvert la voie à la démocratisation de nombreux pays d’Europe de l’Est et a triomphalement inauguré l’ère de la démocratie libérale mondiale que certains universitaires ont célébrée comme « la fin de l’histoire ». L’idée était que l’histoire politique de l’humanité aurait suivi une progression inéluctable, culminant avec la démocratie libérale occidentale, perçue comme le point final d’une forme sécurisée de gouvernement. Malheureusement, les événements se sont déroulés quelque peu différemment.

Indonesia’s stunning microlibraries draw young readers – in pictures - Joan Aurelia (the Guardian, 2025)
Using passive design and local materials such as ice cream buckets, these modern community spaces offer a respite from urban heat and hustle
Keywords: Architecture; Art and design; Asia Pacific; Books; Children; Culture; Environment; Extreme heat; Indonesia; Libraries; World news

Elders of Cork’s Traveller community draw on their memories of days of old to inform new archive - Martin Mongan (Irish Independent, 2025)
An online archive focused on preserving and sharing cultural heritage while keeping the stories of Cork Travellers documented and accessible for future generations was launched.

Detention of Kloop media staff intensifies crackdown on independent journalism (Amnesty International, 2025)
Detaining journalists for their work, denying access to legal counsel and carrying out warrantless searches of homes violates both Kyrgyzstan’s own legal obligations and international human rights standards

La détention d’employées du média Kloop marque un durcissement de la répression contre le journalisme indépendant (Amnesty International, 2025)
Il s’agit de violations des obligations légales du Kirghizistan et des normes internationales relatives aux droits humains.

Intersectional Solidarity: We Are All the United Nations - Rebecca Adami (UN Chronicle, 2025)
In this article, I suggest that it was thanks to the intersectional solidarity between women with experiences of injustices caused by the Second World War, fascism and colonialism that today we truly have a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We can carry their legacy further by enacting this call in solidarity with each other, regardless of what separates us and in recognition of what unites us—such as living on a planet facing environmental emergency and the effects of war—as members of the human family.

Struggle and archive - BY (Africa is a Country, 2025)
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.

Human rights centered global governance of quantum technologies: advancing information for all - UNESCO (2025)
Quantum technologies—encompassing quantum computing, communications, sensing, and materials—represent a groundbreaking frontier with the potential to revolutionize industries such as healthcare, energy, finance, and communications. However, like all transformative innovations, they come with opportunities, challenges and implications for human rights.

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.

US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database - Bhuiyan, Johana (The Guardian, 2025)
Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’
Keywords: Children; Migration; Privacy; Surveillance; Technology; US immigration; US news

‘Like touching climate change’: glaciers reveal records of the way the world was - Giuffrida, Angela (The Guardian, 2025)
Scientists drill for ice cores containing information on preindustrial pollutants, but they are in a race against time
Keywords: Climate crisis; Environment; Glaciers; Polar regions

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds - Hall, Rachel; Keenan, Rachel (The Guardian, 2025)
Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods
Keywords: Digital media; Health; Media; Mental health; Social media; Society; Technology; TikTok

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. - Alajaji, Rindala (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have become tools to enforce the most personal and politically charged laws in the country.

Un an plus tard, les Houthis doivent libérer les membres du personnel de l’ONU et de la société civile - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
Les autorités houthies de facto doivent libérer immédiatement et sans condition les dizaines de membres du personnel des Nations unies et d’organisations de la société civile yéménite et internationale placés en détention arbitraire au cours de l’année écoulée, ont déclaré Amnesty International et Human Rights Watch le 30 mai 2025. Les arrestations arbitraires d’employé·e·s humanitaires par […]

Parties promise to shut down any false info flowing from their camps - Sashana Small (Jamaica Gleaner, 2025)
Recognising the threat the use of disinformation and misinformation poses to Jamaica’s democratic process, the island’s two main political parties say they have committed to rooting out any instances of this among their ranks.

A year on, Huthis must free UN, civil society staff - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
Huthi de facto authorities should immediately and unconditionally release dozens of staff from the UN, and Yemeni and international civil society organizations who were arbitrarily detained over the course of the past year, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.

SAFEnet Slams Indonesia's Block on Archive.org as Digital Rights Violation - Ananda Ridho Sulistya (Tempo, 2025)
Indonesian ministry said the decision to block Archive.org was made after discovering content related to online gambling and pornography on the site.

In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945 - Philippe Pons (Le Monde, 2025)
Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.

Photos: Preserving Oualata’s fragile manuscript legacy amid desert threats - Al Jazeera (Al Jazeera, 2025)
Centuries-old manuscripts in Oualata libraries face destruction as desert sands encroach on ancient Mauritanian town.

Being monitored at work? A new report calls for tougher workplace surveillance controls - Blackham, Alysia; Goldenfein, Jake; Tham, Joo-Cheong (The Conversation, 2025)
Australian employers are monitoring employees, frequently without workers' knowledge or consent. A new report found workers are being watched using optical, listening, data, tracking and physical surveillance. Poor regulation means there is a lack of control on surveillance and the collection of data.

Armas, mordazas y troles: Desinformación y censura moldean el conflicto entre India y Pakistán - GV South Asia (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
La "Operación Sindoor" de India provocó represalias pakistaníes y acercó a ambas naciones nucleares a la guerra, mientras los canales de televisión indios desinformaban, con sirenas a todo volumen, presentadores vociferantes y videos virales falsos.

Armas, mordazas y troles: Desinformación y censura moldean el conflicto entre India y Pakistán - GV South Asia (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
La "Operación Sindoor" de India provocó represalias pakistaníes y acercó a ambas naciones nucleares a la guerra, mientras los canales de televisión indios desinformaban, con sirenas a todo volumen, presentadores vociferantes y videos virales falsos.

Una comisión del Parlamento Europeo analizará en Roma un escándalo en torno a un software espía - Peretti, Alessia (Euractiv.es, 2025)
A pesar de las reiteradas peticiones de transparencia, el gobierno de derechas de la primera ministra italiana, Giorgia Meloni (Fratellli d´Italia/ECR), se ha negado a revelar detalles en público.

Trust is critical to EU health data success, says WHO - Verbeeck, Nicole (Euractiv, 2025)
As the EU enacts its landmark health data law, officials warn that public trust, not just infrastructure, will determine its success, citing past misuse cases, such as 23andMe, as a cautionary tale.

Strengthening the linkages between social registries and climate risk data in Asia and the Pacific - World Food Programme (World Food Programme, 2025)
Explore how climate risk data enhances social registries and supports shock-responsive protection systems, with lessons from Sri Lanka, Lao PDR, and regional experiences across Asia and the Pacific.

Diez años de derechos digitales: ¿Adónde han ido a parar los avances de las grandes empresas de tecnología? - Giovana Fleck (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
En un mundo en el que aumenta el autoritarismo, el informe muestra que muchas grandes empresas tecnológicas siguen en gran medida "actuando como de costumbre", sin tratar cuestiones críticas.

Hide the Numbers, Control the Message - Joseph Chamie (Inter Press Service, 2025)
In the past, Shakespeare famously wrote in his play Henry VI that the first step for those seeking power was to “kill off the lawyers”. Today, the first step taken by those seeking power is to hide the numbers and control the message.

Des eurodéputés à Rome pour enquêter sur l’utilisation d’un logiciel espion - Peretti, Alessia (Euractiv FR, 2025)
Une délégation d’eurodéputés de la commission des Libertés civiles, de la Justice et des Affaires intérieures du Parlement européen se rendra à Rome vendredi 30 mai pour enquêter sur l’utilisation d’un logiciel espion par l’Italie.

MEPs head to Rome demanding clarity on spyware scandal - Peretti, Alessia (Euractiv, 2025)
EU lawmakers head to Rome to probe Italy’s spyware scandal, as outrage grows over claims Graphite was used to surveil journalists and activists.

Mort du photographe Sebastião Salgado : l'Amazonie perd un fervent défenseur - Bernard, Raphaël (Reporterre 🌍 le média de l'écologie - Indépendant et en accès libre, 2025)
Le photographe franco-brésilien décédé le 23 mai aura été l’un des premiers à alerter sur la dégradation de l’Amazonie. Ses photos de la grande forêt et de ses habitants ont marqué le monde et contribué à leur protection.

Dix ans de droits numériques : où en est vraiment la Big Tech ? - Giovana Fleck (Global Voices en Français, 2025)
Dans un monde marqué par la montée de l’autoritarisme, le rapport montre que de nombreuses entreprises de la tech poursuivent pour la plupart leurs activités « comme d’habitude », sans prendre en compte les enjeux majeurs.

Journalists ask parliamentiarians not to restrict access to government documents - NL Times (NL Times, 2025)
Professional journalist organizations and various social organizations are appealing to parliament to take “no steps backwards” with the Open Government Act (WOO). The call the law that regulates the access to government information “essential for our democracy.” The organizations have serious objections to various motions that parliamentarians have submitted.

La CIA intenta reclutar espías chinos para el Gobierno de Estados Unidos, pero los chinos parecen no mostrar interés - Oiwan Lam (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
Aunque los videos han tratado las tensiones políticas dentro del Partido Comunista Chino, muchos consideran que las narrativas no son convincentes, en gran parte porque Estados Unidos ha perdido su terreno moral con el presidente Donald Trump.

La CIA intenta reclutar espías chinos para el Gobierno de Estados Unidos, pero los chinos parecen no mostrar interés - Oiwan Lam (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
Aunque los videos han tratado las tensiones políticas dentro del Partido Comunista Chino, muchos consideran que las narrativas no son convincentes, en gran parte porque Estados Unidos ha perdido su terreno moral con el presidente Donald Trump.

Bashar al-Assad’s Secret Archive: 8 Million People Were Under Surveillance! - Shuhrat Razzakov (Zamin, 2025)
It has been revealed that during the rule of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the country's intelligence services conducted mass and secret surveillance of the population. According to a source from Syria's Ministry of Interior, cited by Germany's Deutsche Welle.

ICC counsel to Bato: No testimonies in Duterte case forced - News, GMA Integrated (GMA News Online, 2025)
The ICC does not force nor make testimonies for witnesses, and the procedure in taking testimonies is very transparent, a lawyer said after Sen. Bato dela Rosa claimed ex-police officials are being forced to execute affidavits against him and detained former President Rodrigo Duterte.

‘Alarming’ rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds - Hawkins, Amy (The Guardian, 2025)
Tens of millions of internet users in China’s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual.
Keywords: Asia Pacific; Censorship; China; Internet; Technology; World news

Lift ban on news sites and protect the right to freedom of expression - Article 19 (ARTICLE 19, 2025)
Jordan's blocking of independent news sites violates the right to access information. Authorities must uphold press freedom and lift the ban.

Presentamos MakingJusticeWork.org: Conectando el conocimiento, fortaleciendo la justicia - Federación Internacional por los Derechos Humanos (Federación Internacional por los Derechos Humanos, 2025)
En el Día de la Unión Europea contra la Impunidad por el Genocidio, los Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad y los Crímenes de Guerra, la Iniciativa Global contra la Impunidad por Crímenes Internacionales y Violaciones Graves de los Derechos Humanos lanza MakingJusticeWork.org, una plataforma digital diseñada para reforzar el trabajo de los actores clave comprometidos con la lucha por la rendición de cuentas.

Introducing MakingJusticeWork.org: Connecting knowledge, strengthening justice - International Federation for Human Rights (International Federation for Human Rights, 2025)
On the European Union (EU) Day Against Impunity for Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes, the Global Initiative Against Impunity for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations (GIAI) launches MakingJusticeWork.org, a digital platform designed to strengthen the work of key stakeholders and actors engaged in the fight for accountability.

Présentation de MakingJusticeWork.org : relier les connaissances, renforcer la justice - La Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (Fédération internationale pour les droits humains, 2025)
À l’occasion de la journée européenne de lutte contre l’impunité des auteurs de génocides, de crimes contre l’humanité et de crimes de guerre, l’Initiative mondiale contre l’impunité pour les crimes internationaux et les violations graves des droits humains (GIAI) lance MakingJusticeWork.org, une plateforme numérique conçue pour renforcer le travail des acteur·ices engagé·es dans la lutte pour la reddition de comptes.

Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok’s father is being prosecuted as a form of ‘collective punishment,’ according to rights groups - Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, 2025)
Kwok Yin-sang's prosecution has shocked overseas Hong Kong communities, as he was the first relative of a wanted activist charged under the security law, Hong Kong's latest strategy of collective punishment.

Menaces, arrestations... Le quotidien des étudiants ougandais opposés à Total - Reporterre (Reporterre, 2025)
La mobilisation en Ouganda contre le projet Eacop est rare et durement réprimée. La jeunesse étudiante tente de s’organiser, au prix de pressions, de procès et d’arrestations ininterrompues.

Syrians Rush to Preserve Remembrances of a Painful Revolution - Sednaya, Raja Abdulrahim (The New York Times, 2025)
Many in Syria want to enshrine remnants of their recent history, not only to remember it, but as a cautionary tale.
Keywords: Archives and Records; Assad, Bashar al-; Assad, Hafez al-; Demonstrations, Protests and Riots; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Politics and Government; Sednaya Prison (Syria); Syria

Preserving the past and sustaining the future amid environmental change: Cross-cutting approaches in cultural heritage - Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (2025)
How are museums, archives, and libraries adapting to environmental change while continuing to safeguard cultural memory? This session brings together consultants working across the GLAM sector to share practical strategies, lessons learned, and emerging best practices for sustainability and climate resilience. This discussion explores areas of convergence and divergence, challenges, innovations, and cross-sector collaboration, with a focus on bridging the gap between research and day-to-day practice.

Weather and climate data freely available - MeteoSwiss (MeteoSwiss, 2025)
As part of the Open Government Data (OGD) initiative, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is making its wealth of collected, processed and refined meteorological and climatological data available to all interested parties free of charge.

Ataque en Pahalgam aumenta tensiones entre India y Pakistán en medio de ola de desinformación - Ramna Saeed (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
Un terrible ataque terrorista en el valle de Pahalgam, parte de la Cachemira india, incrementó rápidamente las tensiones entre los vecinos India y Pakistán, lo que generó represalias diplomáticas.

Ataque en Pahalgam aumenta tensiones entre India y Pakistán en medio de ola de desinformación - Ramna Saeed (Global Voices en Español, 2025)
Un terrible ataque terrorista en el valle de Pahalgam, parte de la Cachemira india, incrementó rápidamente las tensiones entre los vecinos India y Pakistán, lo que generó represalias diplomáticas.

Alertan riesgos a derechos en reforma de telecomunicaciones en México - Access Now (Access Now, 2025)
Access Now y ARTICLE 19 publican un informe sobre las implicaciones para los derechos humanos en la reforma de telecomunicaciones en México

Civil society warns of human rights risks in Mexico’s telecom reform - Access Now (Access Now, 2025)
Access Now and ARTICLE 19 publish a policy brieg on the human rights implications in Mexico’s telecom reform

Cambodians remember Khmer Rouge victims 50 years on - Euronews (2025)
Cambodia held a powerful memorial on Tuesday to mark 50 years since the Khmer Rouge began a brutal regime that left around 1.7 million people dead.

Uruguay makes 10 key Operation Condor files available for online access - Jaureguy, Martina (Buenos Aires Herald, 2025)
The documents are key to understanding how the collaboration between South American regimes operated. “For the past 20 years, the foreign ministry has been part of a process in which there have been advances in terms of archives linked to human rights violations,” Interim Foreign Minister Valeria Csukasi said.

Nakba Descendants Seek Reparations Through Family Archive - Phil Pasquini (Countercurrents, 2025)
In observance of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), the Arab Center Washington DC introduced “Survivors of the Nakba from Landowners to Refugees” by presenting the Bseiso Family Archive of Palestinian landownership records. The extensive archive chronicles Palestinian life from 1906 to 1997, with Jahshan noting it is “the largest known collection of original documents from a single Palestinian family detailing land ownership before 1948.” The archive introduces compelling legal evidence of the historical “property theft and mass dispossession” that took place.

NSW education department caught unaware after Microsoft Teams began collecting students’ biometric data - Taylor, Josh (The Guardian, 2025)
Gathering of face and voice data went unnoticed for one month after it was automatically enabled for video conferencing app users in March.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Australia news; Australian education; Child Rights; Computing; Microsoft; Privacy; Technology

How Russian opposition media continue broadcasting from abroad - Daria Dergacheva (Global Voices, 2025)
“There are millions of Russian-speaking people around the world ready to support media they trust. You need to find the right tone to encourage that support and keep it growing.”

New Law Threatens Free Speech, Trans Rights - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
A law enacted in Peru purports to combat sexual violence against children and adolescents, but instead undermines freedom of expression and access to information, and discriminates against transgender people, Human Rights Watch said today. The law’s vague and overly broad provisions could also be used to suppress expressions of identity, artistic content, and educational materials while failing to effectively address pervasive sexual violence against children and adolescents in the country.

Israel Recovers Troves of Documents Belonging to Its Most Famous Spy - Moses, Claire (The New York Times, 2025)
Israel has long sought to bring home from Syria the remains of Eli Cohen, whose spying work is credited with helping Israel win the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.
Keywords: Archives and Records; Cohen, Eli (1924-65); Damascus (Syria); Defense and Military Forces; Espionage and Intelligence Services; Israel; Mossad; Netanyahu, Benjamin; Syria

Afghan War Crimes Victims Still Awaiting Justice - Patricia Gossman (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.

Afghan War Crimes Victims Still Awaiting Justice - Patricia Gossman (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.

Afghan War Crimes Victims Still Awaiting Justice - Patricia Gossman (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.

Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost - Van Klinken, Erik (Techzine Global, 2025)
In February, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. As a result, Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has no access to the emails on his Microsoft account. The incident once again demonstrates the risks of dependence on US IT services.

From Ruins to Resin: A Curator’s Fight to Save Ukrainian Heritage - Jacobsen, Scott Douglas (International Policy Digest, 2025)
Ukrainian curator Tetyana Fiks discusses how the War Fragments Museum preserves the human stories of war through art, using resin-encased artifacts to protect and share Ukraine’s cultural memory with the world.

Surge in refusals for freedom of information undermines trust in Australian government, watchdog warns - Knaus, Christopher (The Guardian, 2025)
The Australian government is refusing freedome of information requests at a rate not seen in a decade, prompting concern among transparency advocates. However the federal government is releasing more FOIs in full that its state and territory counterparts.
Keywords: Australia news; Australian politics; Freedom of information

The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE - Mike Fritz (PBS News, 2025)
This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police department dropped an improvised bomb on a residential home that housed the Black revolutionary organization MOVE. The bomb and ensuing fire killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed more than 60 nearby homes.

Brussels court ruling on tracking-based ads a major win for right to privacy - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
On 14 May the Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that the consent model used by the tracking based online advertising industry is illegal under EU privacy law. The ruling establishes that the Transparency and Consent Framework fails to meet GDPR requirements for user consent and transparency.

La décision d’une juridiction de Bruxelles sur les publicités basées sur la surveillance représente une grande victoire pour le droit au respect de la vie privée - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
Il s’agit d’une victoire majeure pour le droit au respect de la vie privée.

La resolución de un tribunal de Bruselas sobre la publicidad basada en el seguimiento, una gran victoria para el derecho a la privacidad - Amnesty International (Amnistía Internacional, 2025)
El Tribunal de Apelación de Bruselas ha resuelto que el modelo de consentimiento que sustenta la publicidad basada en el seguimiento utilizado por las grandes empresas tecnológicas es ilegal.

Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? - Amnesty International (Amnesty International, 2025)
Thailand and Taiwan are hailed as champions of the rights of LGBTI people in Asia, as the only two places in the region to legalize same-sex marriage. However, rights won at the registry office do not always translate into safety online. Digital violence continues to threaten LGBTI people, undermining their human rights and progress made. Thai and Taiwanese authorities must do more to combat it.

Jordan bans 12 news sites for ‘spreading media poison’ following corruption report - Committee to Protect Journalists (Committee to Protect Journalists, 2025)
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Jordanian authorities to lift Wednesday’s ban on a dozen online news outlets for “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan,” following the publication of allegations that the government unfairly profited from aid to Gaza.

How accurate are my medical records? You might be surprised how often errors creep in - Lloyd, Sheree (The Conversation, 2025)
Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist.

Amid States’ Negligence, Activists Working to Ensure Accountability for Israel’s Actions in Occupied Palestinian Territory - UN News (UN News, 2025)
The Foundation files requests for prosecution in national courts against “traveling soldiers” — a reference to Israeli soldiers traveling abroad. In States that have incorporated the principle of universal jurisdiction into their criminal codes, jurisdiction can be established by the mere physical presence of a perpetrator on their territory. It also files requests for prosecution in soldiers’ own countries — based on the principle of national jurisdiction. “There is no statute of limitations for these crimes and States' responsibility to act never expires,” he said. Finally, the Foundation shares information with international legal bodies like the International Criminal Court.

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son - Walker, Shaun; Alexandrou, Nicola; Bury, Ellie (2025)
For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story.
Keywords: Espionage; Russia

La Hongrie va, comme la Russie, légiférer pour cibler des médias et ONG financés par l'étranger - AFP (Franceinfo, 2025)
Le gouvernement hongrois a poursuivi son offensive contre les ONG et médias indépendants avec le dépôt au Parlement, mercredi 14 mai, d'une proposition de loi ciblant toute structure financée par des fonds étrangers qui "menacerait la souveraineté" du pays d'Europe centrale. Ce texte sur "la transparence de la vie publique", déposé par un député du parti au pouvoir (Fidesz), suscite déjà l'inquiétude dans la presse et l'opposition et des comparaisons avec la loi russe sur les "agents de l'étranger".

Attack claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian court case archive - Antoniuk, Daryna (The Record, 2025)
About a third of the case file archive of Pravosudiye — Russia's national electronic court filing system — was deleted in a previously reported cyberattack, auditors said. A pro-Ukrainian group has claimed the intrusion.

Guns, gags and trolls: Disinformation and censorship are shaping the India–Pakistan conflict - GV South Asia (Global Voices, 2025)
India's “Operation Sindoor” sparked Pakistani retaliation and edged both nuclear-armed nations toward war, while Indian TV channels erupted in disinformation, blaring sirens, shouting anchors, and viral fake videos.

Guns, gags and trolls: Disinformation and censorship are shaping the India–Pakistan conflict - GV South Asia (Global Voices, 2025)
India's “Operation Sindoor” sparked Pakistani retaliation and edged both nuclear-armed nations toward war, while Indian TV channels erupted in disinformation, blaring sirens, shouting anchors, and viral fake videos.

A trial is testing ways to enforce Australia’s under-16s social media ban. But the tech is flawed - Maddox, Alexia; Heemsbergen, Luke; Le, My (The Conversation, 2025)
Australia's ban on under-16s from social media is due to take effect in December 2025. The law says social media platforms can't use official identification such as passports to check ages, and shouldn't track Australians. An age assurance technology trial is in its final stages.

New technologies risking ‘mental privacy’ of workers - Parliament of Victoria (Parliament of Victoria, 2025)
Imagine your employer having access to your brain activity. It may sound fanciful, but neurotechnology is one of a range of emerging technologies that are finding their way into workplace surveillance and will need to be subject to carefully considered regulation.

UN Strategic Communications and the Protection of Civilians: The Role of UN Radio - Schmidt, Annie (International Peace Institute, 2025)
Radio remains the most popular medium of communication in many countries where UN peacekeeping operations are deployed, and several missions have leveraged UN radio stations to communicate with local populations. UN strategic communications via radio can help reduce violence against civilians, both during and after armed conflict.

Aux machines, citoyens ! - Stanislas Deprez (La Vie des idées, 2025)
Contre la tendance des experts à vouloir garder le contrôle exclusif du développement technologique – au nom de l’incompétence du grand public –, Adeline Barbin suggère de confier davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens, afin que les techniques et les sciences soient conformes aux valeurs démocratiques. Dans son livre La démocratie des techniques la philosophe Adeline Barbin défend la double thèse selon laquelle une démocratie des techniques est souhaitable et possible, contre l’idéologie technocratique des élites politiques et scientifiques.

Keeping People Safe Online – Fundamental Rights Protective Alternatives to Age Checks - Windwehr, Svea (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
This is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities.

Viols collectifs, esclavage sexuel… Des experts de l'ONU dénoncent des violences sexuelles "systématiques" au Soudan - AFP (Franceinfo, 2025)
Les femmes et les filles au Soudan, pays ravagé par la guerre, sont confrontées à des violations généralisées et systématiques de leurs droits, incluant viols collectifs, esclavage sexuel et assassinats, principalement de la part des forces paramilitaires, ont alerté, mercredi 14 mai, des experts des Nations unies.

Western countries gave Mossad information used to track and kill Palestinian terrorists in 1970s - Burke, Jason (The Guardian, 2025)
Declassified documents reveal secret support by intelligence agencies without oversight by elected politicians
Keywords: France; Germany; Israel; Italy; Middle East and north Africa; Munich massacre; Palestinian territories; Switzerland; The Mossad; UK news; US news

A decade of digital rights: Where has Big Tech's progress gone? - Giovana Fleck (Global Voices, 2025)
In a world with rising authoritarianism, the report shows that many Big Tech companies are largely continuing with “business as usual,” failing to address critical issues.

Ministers block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted content - Hall, Rachel (The Guardian, 2025)
Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Beeban Kidron; House of Lords; Intellectual property; Labour; Politics; Technology; UK news

Pfizergate: EU Court Rules Commission in Violation of Transparency Law Over von der Leyen–Pfizer Texts - Hanna, Rachel (Access Info Europe, 2025)
14 May 2025 – The General Court of the European Union has annulled the European Commission decision to refuse access to text messages relating to COVID-19 vaccine negotiations, stating that doing so violated EU access to documents law and breached the principle of good administration. In early 2021, it was revealed that President von der

Des travailleurs migrants électrocutés, décapités et victimes de chutes mortelles au travail - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Les autorités devraient agir pour empêcher les décès, et indemniser sans faille les familles lors d’accidents mortels.

Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces - Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch, 2025)
Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia die in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation

Who Watches the Watchers? A Conversation on Digital Rights and Decentralization - Jacobsen, Scott Douglas (International Policy Digest, 2025)
Alexander Linton discusses the urgent need for decentralized, privacy-focused technologies like Session to counter mass surveillance and protect digital rights in an increasingly data-driven world.

Digital Public Infrastructure Could Make a Better Internet - Kapur, Akash (Foreign Policy, 2025)
The approach has seen rapid uptake in the global south and may even challenge the existing geopolitical order.

BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk - Savage, Michael (The Guardian, 2025)
Britain’s status as a cohesive, democratic society is at risk for the first time in a generation as the rise of social media platforms and disinformation fuel a “trust crisis”, the BBC’s director general has said. In a wide-ranging address about the future of the corporation, Tim Davie said BBC News would start to make special content for platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, where disinformation can go unchecked, as he couched the broadcaster as a “precious national asset” preventing the UK from becoming a society in which there were no shared facts.
Keywords: BBC; BBC licence fee; Culture; Digital media; Media; Social media; TV news; Television; The news on TV; Tim Davie

Au Mali, la junte dissout les partis politiques et suspend TV5 Monde - AFP (France 24, 2025)
La junte au pouvoir au Mali a annoncé mardi la dissolution des "partis politiques" et des "organisations à caractère politique", selon un décret présidentiel lu à la télévision publique. Elle a également…

Les expulsions de migrants aux Etats-Unis suscitent de "graves préoccupations", s'inquiète l'ONU - AFP (Franceinfo, 2025)
Volker Türk, haut-commissaire de l'ONU aux droits de l'homme, dénonce "la manière dont certaines personnes ont été détenues et déportées", ainsi que "la rhétorique humiliante utilisée contre les migrants".

Is the U.S. Abandoning the Fight Against Foreign Information Operations? - Fried, Ambassador Daniel (Just Security, 2025)
The Trump administration's policy shift paves the way for foreign propaganda to flourish, leaving Europe to step into the breach.

Liberian Massacre Sites Documented in New Database - Mehnpaine, Tina S. (Liberianobserver.com, 2025)
The Ducor Institute releases a database on massacres during Liberia's civil war, aiming to supplement human rights activities and establish a War and Economic Crimes Court. Public contributions requested for database enhancement.

Boxes of Nazi Material Are Found After Decades in Basement of Argentina Court - Moses, Claire (The New York Times, 2025)
Thousands of documents in the boxes could result in new information about Nazi activity in Argentina in the early years of World War II.
Keywords: Argentina

Deepfakes in Courtrooms: How Judges Are Adapting to a New Reality - Akhlaghi, Maryam (Laboratoire de cyberjustice, 2025)
The rise of deepfake technology is challenging courts to reconsider how evidence is authenticated and presented. While courts have long dealt with fabricated evidence, the accessibility of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has made it easier than ever to create convincing fake images, videos, and audio recordings.

EU told to set up agency to fight Russian bots, election interference - Anupriya Datta (Euractiv, 2025)
Democracy in the EU is under threat from Russian-backed foreign information manipulation.

Un eurodéputé demande la création d'une agence pour lutter contre les campagnes de désinformation venues de l'étranger - Anupriya Datta (Euractiv, 2025)
L’eurodéputé Tomas Tobé (PPE) propose la création d’une agence européenne pour lutter contre la désinformation étrangère. L’objectif : renforcer la résilience de l’UE face à l’ingérence étrangère, notamment en période électorale.

IACHR warns of erosion to women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, memory policies in Argentina - Jaureguy, Martina (Buenos Aires Herald, 2025)
In its annual report, the human rights watchdog for the Americas expressed concern about President Milei’s austerity measures and violent discourse. The IACHR observed “setbacks in memory, truth and justice policies” including layoffs in the Human Rights Secretariat and the closure of programs and specialized entities.

Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024 - Walid El Houri (Global Voices, 2025)
From shadow bans to account removals, tech platforms are censoring Palestinian speech while ignoring hate speech by Israeli figures.

Digital erasure: How social media platforms are silencing Palestinians in 2024 - Walid El Houri (Global Voices, 2025)
From shadow bans to account removals, tech platforms are censoring Palestinian speech while ignoring hate speech by Israeli figures.

Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back. - Zraick, Karen (The New York Times, 2025)
The Agriculture Department pledged to restore online climate information that farmers said helped them do business, but which officials had deleted.
Keywords: Agriculture Department; Agriculture and Farming; Clayton, Walter J; Environmental Working Group; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Natural Resources Defense Council; Northeast Organic Farming Assn; Suits and Litigation (Civil); United States Politics and Government

The CIA is trying to recruit Chinese spies for the US government. Chinese citizens don't seem interested - Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, 2025)
Although the videos have addressed the political tensions within the CCP, many find the narratives unconvincing, largely because the U.S has lost its moral high ground under president Donald Trump.

The CIA is trying to recruit Chinese spies for the US government. Chinese citizens don't seem interested - Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, 2025)
Although the videos have addressed the political tensions within the CCP, many find the narratives unconvincing, largely because the U.S has lost its moral high ground under president Donald Trump.

Hackers leak to press passenger details of Trump deportation flights - Gerard Edic (PBS News, 2025)
More than a month after The Atlantic broke the story that top U.S. officials were sharing military attack plans on Signal, the Trump administration’s handling of sensitive data is still under scrutiny. Hackers targeted another app used by Trump officials and also stole passenger lists from an airline used to deport migrants.

Trump fires top US copyright official - Katherine Tully-McManus (POLITICO, 2025)
President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation — a position traditionally overseen by the legislative branch.

Digital censorship amid the ongoing India-Pakistan conflict - Access Now (Access Now, 2025)
We are alarmed by executive orders issued by the Indian government restricting access to an alarming spectrum of online content, including requiring social media platform X to block access to over 8,000 accounts, including those belonging to journalists, human rights organisations, and independent media outlets. In today’s digital age, the many layers of conflict include the digital realm and efforts to control the information ecosystem. These orders are part of a broader pattern of digital censorship.

Digital censorship amid the ongoing India-Pakistan conflict - Access Now (Access Now, 2025)
We are alarmed by executive orders issued by the Indian government restricting access to an alarming spectrum of online content, including requiring social media platform X to block access to over 8,000 accounts, including those belonging to journalists, human rights organisations, and independent media outlets. In today’s digital age, the many layers of conflict include the digital realm and efforts to control the information ecosystem. These orders are part of a broader pattern of digital censorship.

Digital censorship and political repression: The blocking of the X account of Istanbul's jailed mayor - Arzu Geybullayeva (Global Voices, 2025)
On May 8, 2025, the X account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and the opposition's presidential candidate, was blocked in Turkey following a court order. The authorities cited a tweet from İmamoğlu’s account, which they claimed could incite criminal activity. The restriction has faced widespread backlash from legal experts, political allies, and digital rights advocates, who view it as an attempt to silence dissenting voices ahead of the 2028 presidential elections.

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress - Balk, Tim (The New York Times, 2025)
Dr. Carla D. Hayden was the first African American and the first woman to serve as the head of the Library of Congress. Her firing drew a furious response from Democrats.
Keywords: Appointments and Executive Changes; Black People; Books and Literature; Democratic Party; Hayden, Carla D (1952- ); Libraries and Librarians; Library of Congress; Race and Ethnicity; Trump, Donald J; United States; United States Politics and Government

Feu vert de Kiev et ses alliés à la création d'un tribunal spécial pour juger les crimes russes - Brzozowski, Alexandra (Euractiv FR, 2025)
Les Européens soutiennent la création d'un tribunal spécial pour juger les crimes d'agression des hauts responsables russes dans le cadre de la guerre en Ukraine, mais l’absence de soutien des États-Unis risque de compromettre les chances de succès de l'initiative.

How Europe wants to bring Putin to The Hague - Brzozowski, Alexandra (Euractiv, 2025)
EU officials say Washington has informally signalled it will not object to the evidence being collected for the tribunal – a cautious but notable concession.

‘If it isn’t recorded it will disappear’: the Muslim photographer shining a light on Bradford’s Jewish community - Green, Graeme (The Guardian, 2025)
When Nudrat Afza learned that her friend’s synagogue was closing she began a multi-year project to document the city’s declining Jewish population. ‘In Bradford people from different communities respect each other,’ she says
Keywords: Art; Art and design; Culture; Exhibitions; Judaism; Photography

Trump news at a glance: military to immediately remove trans troops and use medical records to oust more - Guardian staff (The Guardian, 2025)
Buoyed by supreme court ruling, Pentagon will remove as many as 1,000 service members.
Keywords: Donald Trump; JD Vance; Pete Hegseth; Trump administration; US military; US news; US politics

How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups - Klosowski, Thorin (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up, you can accidentally undermine your privacy.

Male bias in medical trials risks women’s lives. But at least the data gap is finally being addressed - Perez, Caroline Criado (The Guardian, 2025)
We know some medications work differently in men and women. Why is it taking so long for studies to reflect this?
Keywords: Health; Medical research; Science; Society; Women; Women's health

50 ans après, la mémoire incomplète du génocide : épisode du podcast Retours de terrain - Valerin, Arnaud (France Culture, 2025)
Le journaliste Arnaud Vaulerin rentre du Cambodge, où l'on commémore les 50 ans du génocide perpétré par les hommes de Pol Pot. Il y raconte les souvenirs douloureux des survivants mais aussi l'impunité dont bénéficient encore la majorité des anciens Khmers rouges.

Ukraine says it has busted Hungarian spy ring collecting military data - Walker, Shaun (The Guardian, 2025)
Two Ukrainians arrested as authorities claim operation had one eye on a possible future military incursion
Keywords: Europe; Hungary; Ukraine; Viktor Orbán; World news

Memo of Understanding to Issue Identity Documents for the Most Vulnerable Women - Human Access (HUMAN ACCESS, 2025)
The signed agreement is part of legal support services and includes a mechanism for receiving cases and procedures for issuing personal documents, which are key to accessing vital services, education, and rights. Without these documents, families face significant barriers to receiving aid and accessing opportunities, exacerbating the challenges they already face.

Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’ - Press, Associated (The Guardian, 2025)
US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources
Keywords: Climate crisis; Donald Trump; Environment; Extreme weather; Natural disasters; Trump administration; US news; US politics

Riefenstahl review – nauseating yet gripping story of Nazi poster woman - Bradshaw, Peter (The Guardian, 2025)
The only important woman in the Nazi movement entranced Hitler, directed Triumph of the Will – and spent the rest of her life alternately fearful and defiant
Keywords: Culture; Documentary films; Film; Nazism; World news

Call to Protect Elections from AI ‘Information Pollution’ - Naureen Hossain (Inter Press Service, 2025)
National and local elections can demonstrate the strengths and vulnerabilities that can be exploited as AI is used to influence voters.

Files documenting worst abuses at residential schools to be destroyed unless survivors ask otherwise - Schwientek, Samantha (CBC News, 2025)
Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and, despite a multi-year outreach, some survivors say they didn't know they could opt to have their files preserved.

‘You feel the huge weight of history’: the room where Nazi Germany surrendered - Henley, Jon (The Guardian, 2025)
Military armistice ending second world war was signed in this nondescript Reims schoolhouse before VE Day
Keywords: Europe; France; Second world war; VE Day; World news

The Iraq War Crimes Archive - Liz Brown and Lydia Day (Unredated, 2025)
This archive represents the largest publicly available collection of materials relating to (allegations of) British war crimes in Iraq. It brings together documents from a wide variety of sources, including judgments and rulings in a range of court cases, submissions to the International Criminal Court, witness statements, submitted evidence and findings from a number of investigative mechanisms, evidence gathered in public inquiries, and information released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Keywords: Great Britain

World Press Freedom Day 2025: digital threats to press freedom - Maheshwari, Eliška Pírková, Rand Hammoud, Aymen Zaghdoudi, Namrata (Access Now, 2025)
It should be no surprise that 2024 was among the deadliest for journalists in 30 years. Across the world, we’re seeing a sharp increase in attacks on media pluralism and independence, as governments of all stripes undermine the rule of law and democratic governance, erode protections for whistleblowers, and use dangerous narratives to smear journalists and human rights defenders.

Argentina declassifies archives on Nazi war criminals who fled after World War II - Tamilla Hasanova (Caliber, 2025)
The records had been held in Argentina’s General Archives since 1992, when they were transferred there under a presidential decree by then-President Carlos Menem. They are the result of decades-long investigations carried out between 1950 and 1980 by Argentine federal agencies.

Situation of Press Freedom in Tunisia - Access Now (Access Now, 2025)
Article 24 has been widely used as a legal tool to prosecute journalists, lawyers, and human rights defenders, contributing to the suppression of media diversity, encouraging self-censorship, and discouraging public engagement in democratic debate.

The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data - Elkind, Peter (ProPublica, 2025)
The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil.

A Push to Remove Symbols of Imperial Russia Divides Odesa, Ukraine - Méheut, Constant; Mitiuk, Daria (The New York Times, 2025)
A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history.
Keywords: Babel, Isaac; Black Sea; Books and Literature; Catherine II, Empress of Russia; Language and Languages; Monuments and Memorials (Structures); Odessa (Ukraine); Politics and Government; Pushkin, Aleksandr; Russian Language; Ukraine; Writing and Writers

Life for the displaced in Calais – in pictures - Ozan Acıdere (The Guardian, 2025)
Photographer Ozan Acıdere documents the plight of migrants as French authorities impose hostile policies on them – while trying to attract more tourists to the coastal city
Keywords: Calais; Migration; Photography; Refugees; World news

Palestinian activist says home raided ‘in revenge’ for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary - Pearce, Matthew (The Guardian, 2025)
Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The Settlers
Keywords: Culture; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Louis Theroux; Social media; Television; Television & radio

Palestinian activist says home raided ‘in revenge’ for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary - Pearce, Matthew (The Guardian, 2025)
Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The Settlers
Keywords: Culture; Israel; Israel-Gaza war; Louis Theroux; Social media; Television; Television & radio