Access Now is a 2026 EFF Award winner! 🏆🎉
We’re proud to receive this recognition alongside @7amleh, DeFlock, and New Media Rights for our work advancing digital rights and defending people’s freedom in the digital age.
Huge thanks to @EFF for this honor. 💚
At least 50 people were reportedly killed and 58 injured in military airstrikes on a busy market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
As violence continues, civilians need access to the internet to document + report on abuses + access information.
People in Tigray told us what it meant to live through a prolonged internet shutdown that began in 2020 and lasted for more than 2 years.
Now, as fighting escalates and connectivity is disrupted again, their stories remind us what is at stake. #KeepItOn
Enough is enough!
People in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are once again cut off from the internet + the world, with services disrupted since September 25.
The region has already endured a blackout lasting over two years in 2020. It must NOT happen again.
