Digital Rights Working Group (DRWG); where we advocated for media and internet freedom and freedom of expression, by producing internet censorship monitoring reports and organizing internet forums with most active CSOs and media, Development Partners in Cambodia as a new active working group after VoD Radio was closed in 2023.

The Digital Right Working Group (DRWG)

• API joined, as a core member, the Digital Right Working Group, with 14 CSOs to advocate for digital rights and internet freedom such as Sub-decree on Internet Gateway and others.

• API built the capacity of the working group’s members on internet freedom monitoring and internet security, right to information, and advocacy for internet freedom.

• API produced and released the second Cambodia Internet Censorship Report in Among its findings, the confirmation that 43 websites were seriously blocked in 2022 and 36 websites were blocked in 2023. This evidence-based advocacy report was used as a reference in the 2023 Universal Periodic Report on Internet Censorship in Cambodia.

• API submitted the Cambodia Internet Censorship Report in 2022-2023 and UPR to the Development Partners, USAID, and EU Member states, the media, and the public, as well as to the UN Human Rights HQ in Geneva, as part of the UPR review process in 2024 for Cambodia.