Reports

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Discover ARTICLE 19’s reports, featuring expert insights and actionable recommendations on free expression, digital rights, and internet freedom. Our research delves into critical global challenges, such as safeguarding free expression in conflict zones and leveraging technology to advance online freedoms.

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Information saves lives: How expression protects civilians in armed conflict

ARTICLE 19’s new policy sets out how international law protects people’s right to free expression during armed conflict.

Engaging tech for internet freedom in authoritarian countries

ARTICLE 19 examines the human rights responsibilities of tech companies operating in authoritarian countries.

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AI technologies: Where do we draw the line?

A growing number of states and private companies are deploying advanced AI tools to monitor, track, and surveil people.


Queer resistance to digital oppression in the Middle East and North Africa

LGBTQI+ people across the Middle East and North Africa tell how police are weaponising dating, messaging, and social media apps to persecute them.

The Digital Silk Road: China and the rise of digital repression in the Indo-Pacific

China continues to export its digital authoritarianism playbook across the Indo-Pacific, reveals ARTICLE 19’s new report.

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Taming Big Tech: Protecting expression for all

ARTICLE 19’s policies on how to regulate social media platforms, tackle Big Tech’s excessive power, and protect freedom of expression online.

Central Asia: Freedom of expression online

ARTICLE 19’s reports analysing these growing challenges and advocating for robust protection of free expression online in Central Asia.


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Bridging the Gap: Local voices in content moderation

Social media companies fail to consider local contexts in content moderation. This can have a dramatic impact. But ARTICLE 19 has a solution.

Equally Safe: Towards a feminist approach to the safety of journalists

ARTICLE 19’s project, Equally Safe: Towards a Feminist Approach to the Safety of Journalists, offers new research, global case studies, practical guidelines, and advocacy tools.

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Malaysia: What do we need to know about social media licensing?

As social media companies in Malaysia face new licensing requirements, what will the implications be for freedom of expression?

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Eastern Africa: A year of repression and resistance

Across Eastern Africa, the democratic reversals captured in ARTICLE 19’s Global Expression Report are having a devastating impact on people’s right to speak and to know.

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Tightening the Net: Iran’s new phase of digital repression

The Iranian regime is using the Supreme Council of Cyberspace to strengthen its control over the internet and shrink digital rights.

Protest against Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Act in Pretoria, South Africa, on 31 March 2023. (REUTERS/Alet Pretorius)

Kenya: How measures to tackle terrorism and extremism affect civil society

Efforts to counter terrorism and extremism and other national security measures in Kenya have had a significant impact on civil society.

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