WITNESS Asia-Pacific
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We fight to make sure that video and technology work for, and not against, human rights ✊🏽🤳🏾 Learn more: http://witness.org
🚨New report drop‼️ 💥🤖Deepfakes are getting more real, but detection tools aren’t keeping up. ⚒️WITNESS just launched the TRIED Benchmark report to push for AI detection tools that actually work. 🌍Built on 40+ real cases from Ukraine, Ghana, Mexico & more. 📉36% of tools…
📣🇨🇭 @witnessorg is heading to Geneva for the @UN's @AIforGood Global Summit 2025‼️ We are joining UN agencies, over 1,000 tech experts, and policymakers to advocate for ethical #AI governance, improved detection tools, and to engage with the ideas and technologies shaping our…
In our blog, Yokbeth Felle writes about how Papuans are using video, archives, and storytelling to fight repression and preserve truth. ✊🏾 From protest footage to film festivals, documentation is resistance. 🔖 Read more: wit.to/BearingWitness… 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia:…
"Human rights documentation is dead. Long live documentation." A sharp read on the chaos we’re all navigating—and the power of grassroots truth-telling. @HURIDOCS's @b_olgado lays it out: openglobalrights.org/long-live-huma…
🎤WITNESS’s Senior Program Manager, Nkem Agunwa (@nkemagunwa), is speaking at @TechSoup Talks 2025, a global webinar series on digital security, misinformation & storytelling for impact! 📅July 16 | 1:00–1:30 PM EDT 📣 Session: “Misinformation: Truth Deserves Defenders” 🔎Join…
Prabowo’s planned and realised militarisation of Government has been extensive, suggesting a level of involvement in social, economic and political affairs far greater than changes seen since 2014.
To understand how AI impacts society, EngageMedia is collecting reports on AI incidents related to the public interest & those affecting individuals, small groups, and SMEs. Read the results from our media monitoring of AI incidents in Indonesia: engagemedia.org/2025/2022-2024…
⚖️ Standards aren’t neutral; they shape power, access, and rights! 🌐🤖 @witnessorg, as part of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), we’ve worked to ensure #HumanRights are embedded in the foundations of tech, not added later‼️ 🔖 Our latest report…
Across Asia, #civicspace is rapidly shrinking—online and offline. From arrests over social media posts to internet shutdowns during protests, a new wave of digital authoritarianism is eroding fundamental freedoms. Tomorrow, @forum_asia with partners are organising a side event…
We, along with civil society organizations & individuals in the Civil Society Coalition Against Impunity, strongly condemn Fadli Zon’s denial of sexual violence in the May 1998 Tragedy. His statement distorts history & dishonors survivors. Memory is justice. 📄 Read our full…
Saksikan film dokumenter “Afsya - Membela Hutan Adat” di Youtube Watchdoc Documentary youtu.be/eUV2xVR-N7k Sejak tahun 2001, 1 juta hektar lahan tutupan hutan hilang di Tanah Papua. Sementara 250 ribu di antaranya digunakan untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit oleh 39…
📣 LAST CALL! Our calls for Session Proposals and Fellowship Applications both close on June 20th! Get your ideas in or apply now to be part of DRAPAC25 in Kuala Lumpur: ✅ Session Ideas Submission: drap.ac/25/programme ✅ Fellowship Application : drap.ac/25/fellows/
✊🏾Rest in Power, Sebastião Salgado (8 February 1944 – 23 May 2025) 🕊️One of the world’s most powerful visual storytellers has passed away. 📸Through his lens, Salgado captured the struggle of the Indigenous communities, rural workers, and environmental defenders. His images…
🔺 Trigger Warning (TW): Violence. This post contains descriptions and footage of violence that may be distressing or triggering to some audiences. 🇧🇩 The historic July 2024 mass uprising in #Bangladesh saw young people and students take to the streets, driven by their dreams…
Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils gathered today at Mullivaikkal, in the Northern district of Mullaithivu to mark 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s internal armed conflict. Victims of the conflict are still pursuing justice and accountability for allegations of serious…
📰 On #WPFD2025, Southeast Asian media groups raise urgent alarms: AI misuse, censorship, student press attacks — from Cambodia to Indonesia, democracy dies in silence. 📖 Read more by @mongster via @globalvoices: globalvoices.org/2025/05/21/ai-…
🤨 What do dictators, scammers, & tech giants have in common? ⚠️ They’re all using AI to twist the truth, and it’s hurting the most vulnerable first. On Life With Machines, @witnessorg's Executive Director, @SamGregory, joins @baratunde to unpack how AI is being weaponized to…
🗣 Session A – Roundtable Discussion on Online Information Control in Southeast Asia with @accessnow, @sinarproject, @kryssnetwork, @Myanmar_IP, and EngageMedia. 🔗 Register for in-person or online attendance: bit.ly/4dsMcZm #ASEAN2025 #InternetFreedom #DigitalRights