‘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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leaked footage and prison logs reveal Aung San Suu Kyi’s life in detention - Lovett, Lorcan; Paing, Tin Htet (The Guardian, 2025)
Video and documents give rare glimpse inside daily life of the imprisoned civilian leader as she nears her 80th birthday
Keywords: Aung San Suu Kyi; Myanmar; Myanmar coup; South and central Asia

Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins - Harrison, Shane (The Guardian, 2025)
Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 July
Keywords: Catholicism; Children; Europe; Ireland; Society; World news

Weathering the Cyberstorm: The Case for Federal Cybersecurity Measures - Martinez, Tristan (Harvard Political Review, 2025)
Cybercrime is surging, and only bold, unified federal and international action can keep the digital world from collapsing.

‘It’s not quite what I had in mind entering my eighth decade’: the London librarian of Lesbos - Taylor, Diane (The Guardian, 2025)
Rather than retiring to Greece, 71-year-old Ruth Miller created ‘a sanctuary of hope and healing’ in a refugee camp
Keywords: Greece; Libraries

Protecting Minors Online Must Not Come at the Cost of Privacy and Free Expression - York, Jillian C. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2025)
Safety matters—but so do privacy, access to information, and the fundamental rights of all users. We urge the Commission to avoid endorsing disproportionate, one-size-fits-all technical solutions. Instead, we recommend user-empowering approaches.

Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived - Beckett, Lois (The Guardian, 2025)
Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state
Keywords: Art; Art and design; Culture; Los Angeles; Los Angeles Ice protests; Pussy Riot; US news; World news

En Suède, la solastalgie du seul peuple autochtone d’Europe face à la ruée minière - Wolton, Emma (The Conversation, 2025)
Qu’est-ce que la solastalgie ? C’est ce sentiment de détresse psychologique que l’on ressent face au changement de son environnement. Au nord de la Suède, l’exploitation minière met en péril le mode de vie des Samis, unique peuple autochtone d’Europe. Elle transforme les paysages qu’ils habitent traditionnellement, menace leurs coutumes et pèse sur leur bien-être individuel et collectif.

KGB defector turned to Britain only after US rejected him several times, book reveals - Walker, Shaun (The Guardian, 2025)
Vasili Mitrokhin defected in 1992 after spending years copying top-secret documents on Soviet spies and operations
Keywords: CIA; Cold war; Espionage; MI6; Russia; UK news; US news; World news

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.