TCU Featured on Portugal’s Most-Watched News Program After Meet and Greet Event
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TCU Featured on Portugal’s Most-Watched News Program After Meet and Greet Event

IUS OMNIBUS, a Portugal-based citizen protection and digital rights organization, organized an event to welcome the Team CommUNITY’s Global Gathering to Portugal. In attendance were diverse Portuguese civil society organizations, companies, government officials, and open source community leaders. We had the opportunity to present our three-year vision, and begin discussions on how it could better support the local Portuguese community in coming years.

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July 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs
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July 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs

Team CommUNITY’s regional briefs for the month of July are out! Find the latest news on digital justice issues in the Latin America, MENA, Africa and Asia regions. This month you can find information on loan apps in Mexico, a comparative evaluation of cybercrime laws in the MENA region, updates about digital security training in Sub-Saharan Africa, plus plenty of job opportunities in the Asian digital rights space. These are the last briefs from the 2022-2023 community leads cohort and we are deeply thankful for their work strengthening our community building!

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How We are Approach Safety, Security and Challenges for the Global Gathering
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How We are Approach Safety, Security and Challenges for the Global Gathering

The Global Gathering in Portugal is less than three months away and we think it's important to recap the challenges we are facing and what we are doing as Team CommUNITY in response to them. This is our first annual event after the Covid pandemic and is part of a 3-year vision to grow the space in a more sustainable and safe way to the size pre-pandemic.

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June 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs
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June 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs

Team CommUNITY’s regional briefs for the month of June are out! Find the latest news on digital justice issues in the Latin America, MENA, Africa and Asia regions. This month, we cover different issues like the presents and futures of tech in Africa, inclusive and anti-casteist digital rights movements in Asia, how to improve welfare of platforms’ workers in LATAM, and how AI is impacting surveillance systems in the MENA region.

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The Wellbeing Monthly: Once a Month Psychosocial Educational Workshop for Digital Rights Defenders
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The Wellbeing Monthly: Once a Month Psychosocial Educational Workshop for Digital Rights Defenders

Team CommUNITY is happy to announce The Wellbeing Monthly, where once a month we host a psychosocial educational workshop designed for digital rights defenders. The series will run from June to December and will be led by diverse mental health professionals. The sessions will focus on psychoeducation and coping mechanisms on diverse topics including anxiety and fear, guilt and survivors guilt, defeat and hopelessness, trauma, and burnout and stress.

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May 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs
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May 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs

Team CommUNITY’s regional briefs for the month of May are out! Find the latest news on digital justice issues in the Latin America, MENA, Africa and Asia regions. This month, we cover different issues like the new bill in Colombia which will protect the labour rights of delivery workers, the content moderators unionising in Africa, and Asian platform workers strategizing during May Day.

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March 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs
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March 2023 | Digital Rights Regional Briefs

Team CommUNITY’s regional briefs for the month of March are out! Find the latest news on digital justice issues in the Latin America, MENA, Africa and Asia region. This month, we are covering issues like the internet shutdowns in Asia, the Zenzeleni Mankosi Cooperative case, the secret surveillance in Mexico, or the digital financial insecurity in the MENA region

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