13/05/2026
RightsCon2026 was de facto canceled after China pressured Zambia to exclude Taiwanese participants. Access Now took a principled decision and refused to hold a conference on those terms.
The cost of the cancellation was both financial and human.
But this moment is also a prompt to ask harder questions about how we build a civic space that prioritizes inclusion and can withstand challenges.
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