Only 7.2% of the world lives in countries where civic space is open or narrowed.
In Asia-Pacific, 16 territories are repressed or closed.
Manifest is a privacy-first studio, witness archive, and direct-funding rail.
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Co-designed and tested with Amnesty International APAC for the BeHuman campaign.
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Make posters. Record testimonies. Fund campaigns. Everything happens on your device — no account, no upload, no server calls — until you choose to publish. Once you publish, the work cannot be taken down or edited.
Journalists film their own deaths and the footage disappears. Activist posts vanish behind platform moderation. Community archives go dark when funding ends. Courts ask for evidence that already existed — but can no longer be found.
The tools to preserve a movement's memory should belong to the movement, not the platforms that can turn them off. That's what Manifest is for.
These principles decide what we build and what we refuse to build.
Communities hold their own records. No extractive data grabs, no licensing traps. The code is open source. The content belongs to the people who made it.
No single company, server, or state can flip Manifest off. Files live on a shared network designed to outlast any one of them. No login required. No account to suspend.
The people doing the work run the platform. Voting weight comes from consistent contribution — not from who can buy the most tokens. Participation, not ownership.
Each module works alone. They get stronger together. A witness report becomes a poster. A poster links back to the evidence. A campaign funds the people who made both.
Log a testimony with a signed, time-stamped receipt. The signature makes the record tamper-evident — anyone can check it hasn't been altered.
Open formAn editor that runs in your browser. No cloud, no account, nothing leaves your device. 30 languages. Print-ready posters.
Open studioEach campaign has its own wallet. Bitcoin, Lightning, or crypto cash. 100% of your donation goes directly to the organiser; Manifest is non-custodial and never holds your funds. You can choose to add an optional 5% to support Manifest, on top and never deducted from the campaign.
Browse campaignsA live globe showing internet shutdowns, journalists killed, and where civic space is shrinking. Data from Access Now, CPJ, and CIVICUS.
Open mapArtivism is the fusion of art and activism — not a slogan campaign, but a way of moving people. Under apartheid, songs, poetry, theatre were not decoration. They were weapons of hope. That's the tradition Manifest was built to serve.
"If I look at my own journey from the streets of apartheid South Africa to global climate advocacy, I've come to see that activism without storytelling is like a drum with no rhythm. It makes noise, but it does not move people. The truth is, art has always been at the heart of resistance. During apartheid, songs, poetry, theater were not luxuries. They were weapons of hope. They helped us imagine freedom before we could actually experience it."
A poster is practice for the world we want. When you draft a slogan, you are also drafting a future. Manifest treats every remix as a rehearsal of what's possible.
Artivism without evidence can be dismissed. Every poster you publish through Manifest carries a cryptographic receipt tied to its campaign, its author's consent, and its archive. Story and proof, in one file.
Adbusters-style subversion, OSPAAAL-style continental solidarity, Shuetsu Sato's duct-tape station signage — all are permission to try. Manifest's templates come from those traditions, and your remix joins them.
Further reading: Peace & Riot · Artmaking as Resistance and Reclamation ⚠ · Adbusters · Media Foundation
Click to play. The same flow you'd see on your own device — uploading an image, swapping language, signing a witness receipt, exporting a poster, archiving to Filecoin.
Amnesty International's 2025/26 annual report documents rights conditions in 144 countries. Its finding: "a broad and dangerous trend — the gradual disintegration of rules, institutions, and norms designed to protect human dignity." These are the numbers Manifest's campaigns draw from.
The report's core finding is distinct from the usual "rights are backsliding" framing. What's happening, Amnesty argues, is the active dismantling of the international rules-based order — driven by powerful states, corporations, and anti-rights movements. Many of the 2025 trends risk continuing beyond 2026.
Amnesty Malaysia's parallel assessment identifies Malaysia as a country that faces a defining choice: reverse course and fulfil its human rights commitments, or continue down a path of managed repression and shrinking civic space. Freedom of expression and peaceful assembly emerged as areas of sharpest regression.
The Federal Court's February 2026 reinstatement of the terms "offensive" and "annoy" in Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act undid the Court of Appeal's earlier ruling in Heidy Quah's case. Combined with the dismissal of the Mentega Terbang filmmakers' Section 298 challenge, the state retains sweeping power to criminalize almost any form of expression.
Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar were detained and had their boats pushed back out of Malaysian waters. By August 2025, more than 20,000 people, including over 2,000 children, were held in immigration detention. The announced 2026 national refugee registration process has disclosed no framework for protecting asylum seekers or addressing existing detention practices.
In October 2025, peaceful demonstrators protested Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla — an action the Malaysian government had itself publicly criticized. Authorities responded with arrests and force; at least one demonstrator was later charged. The gap between what Malaysia says on the global stage and what it does domestically is the report's most pointed thread.
The High Court's ruling that the government and police were responsible for the enforced disappearances of Pastor Raymond Koh and Amri Che Mat is a significant milestone. Yet fatal police shootings, deaths in custody, and the case of Thuzar Maung — believed abducted with her family in Malaysia and returned to Myanmar — show accountability is still structurally incomplete.
"Malaysia is at a critical crossroads. It can either demonstrate leadership by upholding human rights at home, or risk aligning itself with the very global trends of repression it claims to oppose."
The framework, the BeHuman integration, the APAC roadmap, and what we're asking partners for. View it online — or request a PDF copy by email.
Online deck: manifest.faces.site · PDF on request: manifeststudiocollective@proton.me
Curated reference index across two complementary lenses. Suppression layers from CIVICUS Monitor, Access Now KeepItOn, CPJ & RSF, and V-Dem. Rights performance layers from the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (rightstracker.org) — 13 rights, income-adjusted, co-designed with human rights defenders in each country. Dataset version 2025.6.18 — most recent year per indicator. Drag to rotate. Click a country.
Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ, on HRMI's 2025 release for New Zealand.
High-income state, OECD member, Pacific power. Yet measured against what's feasible at NZ's income level, the right to work scores in the “very bad” range. Māori, Pacific peoples, disabled people, and unhoused communities bear the gap. The income-adjusted methodology exposes what absolute-target indicators miss: a wealthy state under-using its resources.
Civic-space and democracy indices measure suppression. They miss what states fail to deliver. HRMI's 5 Quality of Life rights — food, education, health, housing, work — fill the gap for ~200 countries (2025 dataset, ESR through 2022).
A country is scored against what's feasible at its per-capita income level. A 100% score means a country is doing as well as any other country at the same resource level. This refuses the framing that low-income states are just “poor performers.”
Civil and political scores (52 countries in 2025 dataset, expanding to 60+ with 2026 data) come from a multi-lingual expert survey of human rights practitioners inside each country. Lawyers, researchers, advocates — not academics on outsider terms.
HRMI uniquely surfaces which population groups face heightened violation risk per right per country — Indigenous peoples, religious minorities, journalists, LGBTQI+, migrants. Displayed in the country detail panel below the map.
Each country on the map links out to the Commons Archive — digital-security tools vetted for that context, local contacts, praxis thinkers, shutdown history, and active campaigns. Everything you need to operate safely in a repressed environment, in one place.
The globe above is honest about its limits. An orthographic projection cannot render a state the size of Tuvalu or Nauru legibly — so the world's smallest nations are compressed to a pixel, scattered offshore, or dropped entirely. That is not only a rendering problem. World projections, and the monitoring infrastructure built on top of them, routinely push Small Island Developing States to the margin — even as these are the communities first in line for climate displacement.
So rather than a correction dot, the 39 UN-recognised SIDS get a first-class entry here, each with the data the map cannot show. Where the monitors themselves thin out, we name it: two of these states aren't separately tracked by CIVICUS at all.
Each basin above is its own equal-area (Lambert azimuthal) projection, centred on the states it holds rather than on a meridian inherited from empire — so no island is stretched, shrunk, or pushed to a corner to suit a global frame. Geometry is Natural Earth 10m. Where a state is genuinely too small to read as a shape at this scale, it becomes a labelled marker you can click through to its card, rather than being dropped. Singapore, which shares no basin with the others, sits at the western edge of the Pacific frame where it belongs geographically. Colour follows the CIVICUS 2025 civic-space rating. The point the cards make in words, the maps make in space: these are whole nations, not rounding errors.
Create a structured testimony with verifiable evidence. Export a signed PDF, a machine-readable JSON receipt, or launch a campaign directly from the report. By default nothing goes to any server — it lives on your device until you choose to publish.
Every campaign has its own wallet. Send funds directly in crypto or a currency of your choice.
On direct rails, 100% of your campaign donation goes directly to the organiser. Manifest is non-custodial and never holds your funds. You can choose to add an optional 5% to sustain the infrastructure (a separate second send); it is never deducted from the campaign.
Campaign funds always go 100% to organisers. Help keep Manifest active for those who need it most.
Twelve official Amnesty APAC campaign posters. Download in your language, or remix in the studio — change the image, add witness testimony, swap the wordmark. Yours to print, post, share.
All posters © Amnesty International. Translations marked (review) are placeholder machine translations pending native-speaker review by APAC chapters.
A live catalogue of the infrastructure that keeps movements alive: digital security tools that protect communicators, praxis thinkers who shaped the work, liberation resources from the Global Majority, physical commons spaces, and live maps of internet shutdowns.
Signal, SecureDrop, Tails, Briar, ProofMode, Delta Chat. Vetted tools, vetted use cases, plain-language guidance for when to use what.
Browse toolsFrom Frantz Fanon to Ruha Benjamin. Not a reading list — a working library.
ExploreFrom Palestinian civil society, Indigenous archives, climate justice collectives.
ReadMayDay Rooms, Lostgens', 18 more. Rooms to gather when the internet falls.
Find oneAggregated overlay of CIVICUS + Access Now + CPJ datasets. Refreshed when source datasets publish.
Open mapThree are in active build, and two more are in early exploration. We open the build items to testers in waves: leave an email and we'll reach out when your spot is ready. No spam, no tracking. This is separate from the tool itself, which collects nothing.
On-chain, user-held Filecoin archiving via Synapse — no shared key, no backend.
Direct-to-organiser crypto for campaigns, with 100% reaching the organiser. Institutional partners use a transparent hosted rail with a standard licensing fee applied by default.
Contribution-based, non-transferable governance — earned through civic participation (HRDAO).
Keeping records alive when the wider internet is cut. Device-to-device sync and store-and-forward, so witness records and posters survive a wide-area outage. Low-bandwidth radio relay (LoRa mesh) for places with no network at all. Under research, not yet in build.
Register interest →Speech-to-text and translation that run in the browser, so a defender can capture and localise a witness record without it ever leaving the device. Nothing is uploaded and inference stays local. Sits on the existing offline-first design. Under research, not yet in build.
Register interest →We keep the main page jargon-free. Most people don't need to know about IPFS CIDs or ECDSA to use the tool. But if you want the detail, it's here.
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