Human Rights in MENA
Documenting, defending and advancing human rights through technology.
Organizations
A regional organization advancing self-regulating information societies and defending digital rights across the Arab world.
A technology and law community defending digital rights and providing digital security support in Egypt and the region.
An international organization defending the digital rights of users at risk, with a dedicated MENA program and Digital Security Helpline.
A regional hub connecting people and organizations across MENA to defend and expand civic space, including open-source civic tools.
A non-profit advocating for Palestinian digital rights, researching online repression and training civil society in digital safety and campaigning.
Projects
A pioneering initiative that crowdsources and maps reports of sexual harassment to challenge its social acceptability in Egypt.
A data-driven visual storytelling project using research and infographics to communicate issues of rights and justice in Palestine.
Tools
An open-source platform for crowdsourcing, mapping and verifying reports during crises, elections and campaigns.
A privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted messaging app widely recommended for activists and journalists.
An open-source suite for building forms and collecting field data offline, widely used by NGOs and researchers.
A free, open-source suite for field data collection in challenging environments, widely used by NGOs, researchers and human rights monitors.
A mobile app that helps activists, journalists and human rights defenders document abuses while encrypting and concealing their data.
Resources
Access Now's free, round-the-clock digital security helpline for civil society, journalists and human rights defenders at risk.
SMEX's knowledge hub covering digital rights, online safety and technology policy across the Arab region.
A free, collaborative resource helping activists, journalists and responders diagnose and respond to common digital emergencies.
Funding
A rapid-response fund providing emergency grants and long-term digital-security support to civil society under digital threat.
An independent EU-backed endowment offering flexible support to pro-democracy actors, including unregistered groups and individuals.
A grant-making foundation supporting non-governmental groups working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.
One of the world's largest private funders of independent civil society, supporting rights, justice and accountability worldwide.
An international development organization funding and running programmes on digital defenders, civic rights and just economies.
An international foundation providing protection grants and rapid support to human rights defenders at risk worldwide.