Publications

New study by Stephen Reimer and ECNL unpacks how AML/CFT frameworks often facilitate ‘foreign agent and interference’ laws and transnational repression, inviting civic activists to push back.

A practical guide on how civil society and journalists can engage in joint investigations, advocacy and campaigns to protect digital rights.

This research paper explores migrant protests, criminalisation, and relevant international human rights standards. 

This scoping study examines the growing use of digital technologies by governments to suppress dissent beyond their borders, with a particular focus on how AI is transforming transnational repression.

Our new policy brief analyses platform risk assessments, and sets out how they can be strengthened to become meaningful tools for transparency under the EU Digital Services Act.

Read our policy paper with targeted recommedations to the EU, governments and banks to ensure defenders' financial inclusion in the EU.

Developed by ECNL and DIHR, this new guide lays out a clear roadmap for putting FRIAs into practice meaningfully, as strategic tools for responsible AI use.

New explainer for civil society organisations on how they can navigate processes that shape our digital future and human rights.

This new resource walks you through the key entry points to the bodies that set the technical and policy rules governing how the internet works.