The Global Gathering Psychosocial Support Consultant will be responsible for delivering mental health support, recommendations, and mental wellness advocacy to the digital rights and internet freedom communities who will be participating in Team CommUNITY’s Global Gathering.

Mental Health Primer for Providers Serving Digital Rights Defenders is the new and first ever educational toolkit designed for psychosocial providers and/or mental health professionals serving (or wanting to serve) digital rights defenders (DRD). It gives insights that can help reduce the barriers and gaps DRDs experience when seeking psychosocial support and services, and help mental health providers improve the care they offer.

Are you interested in learning about emerging issues in digital rights, and how they are uniquely showing up in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa? Join us for our upcoming village, “Digital Rights Perspectives from the South,” which will run from June 6 to 14. The Village will feature five interactive virtual sessions led by TCU’s four Community Leads and participants will have space to provide their perspectives and feedback.

Team CommUNITY (TCU) launched the VPN Community Initiative in 2022, focused on bringing together diverse actors from different disciplines and regions that are working on, or are directly impacted by, the current state of the VPN ecosystem. In this blog, Conclusions and Opportunities from the 2022 VPN Community Initiative, you will find the main takeaways and detailed findings about the experience as well. The revision also lists steps forward proposals in each the different areas.