We argue that host states should bear ultimate responsibility to protect against such human rights violations with the implementation of measures comprehensive in scope, including accountability, victims support, work with tech companies, and revisit their immigration & national security frameworks.

Glad to share this new article on digital transnational repression, its impacts on women and queer individuals, and the responses of host states. #DTR

muse.jhu.edu/article/965783 Project MUSE - Targeted Across Borders: Digital Transnational Repression, Gender Dimensions, and the Role of Host States

8/ Recommendations:
Social media platforms must improve content moderation policies, develop gender-specific reporting channels, and protect activists from surveillance abuse.

7/ Recommendations:
Host states must respond effectively to address transnational repression, including its digital and gender dimensions, ensuring institutions receive training on gender-based digital repression and immigration-related issues.

5/ Participants shared that the responses of host states were insufficient, leaving them feeling compelled to manage the situation on their own. As a result, they developed their own coping mechanisms and resistance strategies.

4/ The Hidden Toll of Gendered Digital Transnational Repression:
🔸On mental health & wellbeing,
🔸Sense of security & social relations
🔸Activism and professional work

3/ Key findings:
1️⃣ Exiled WHRDs face politically motivated digital attacks using a variety of technologies
2️⃣ Top perpetrators of gender-based DTR: gov of home country,or state-related actors
3️⃣ These attacks are gender-based
4️⃣ Targets are WHRDs involved in transnational advocacy

2/ Our report findings draw on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders originating from 24 home countries and residing in 23 host countries.
This map shows countries of origin of the participants

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📢 New Report: No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression.

We examine how gender shapes digital transnational repression—where governments target, suppress, and surveil activists across borders using digital tools
📖 citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

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Excited to share our new report, "Enhancing Cybersecurity Resilience for Transnational Dissidents," published at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Along with my Citizen Lab colleagues Gözde Böcü & Nicola Lawford, we examine the cyber threats faced by exiled women dissidents in the U.S.