The 29th session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) just took place in April 2026. It became a valuable opportunity to discuss the subsequent challenge of putting the…

The rise of AI-enabled monitoring, such as facial recognition systems at railway stations and predictive policing technologies used by police across different cities, has continued largely without…

Human rights have been the base and continue to be the base on which other laws including constitutions of nations are shaped and have a greater influence on how AI should be built and governed. We…

RightsCon26 is back for its 14th edition, this year taking place in Lusaka, Zambia, from 5 to 8 May 2026. This is an opportunity to APC's community come together around key themes, to share our…

On Earth Day, our Mariana Tamari addressed an urgent issue in our series: In the parallel universe created by the corporate sector, the imminent climate collapse simply does not exist. The promised…

"When I question whether AI can ever be ethical or feminist, even in some alternate timeline, it doesn’t come from cynicism for the sake of it, but from years of watching patterns repeat. The…

Since the military coup in 2021, Myanmar has witnessed an alarming escalation in digital repression. The tactics used have disproportionately affected human rights defenders (HRDs), particularly…

The underlying idea for the Building a Free Internet of the Future series was for us to play a role in promoting both the NGI0 cascade funding programme and the emerging projects that benefit from…

"What if instead of recentring the human, we expanded our sense of relation – recognising that intelligence, consciousness and care take multiple, entangled forms across species, systems and…

We asked the authors: "Why is it vital to value human creativity and connection in the age of AI?" This is Daria Dergacheva perspective: Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it…