Manifest is a privacy-first studio for movements. Make campaign posters and document what is happening, all on your own device. Keep what matters safe and secure. No accounts, nothing tracked to you.
Built for the people who document and organise human rights work.
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Manifest runs in your browser, with no account and nothing stored on a server. Make posters, document what's happening, and keep your record on your own device. It's open source, and free for the people who need it most.
Vision
A world where communities hold and govern their own records, safe from the platforms and states they're resisting. Creative protest becomes evidence that holds, and a community's memory stays in its own hands.
Mission
To build that infrastructure: privacy-first, offline-friendly civic technology, owned and governed by the communities it serves, so movements can document what happens to them and keep it, beyond anyone's reach to seize or erase.
Freedom tech for the global majority. Manifest decolonises, decentralises and democratises the infrastructure movements rely on, so power over the tools stays with the people who use them.
The space to defend human rights is closing, and the tools to document it keep getting switched off.
CIVICUS Monitor, People Power Under Attack 2025, released December 2025 · Access Now and #KeepItOn, Rising repression meets global resistance: internet shutdowns in 2025, released 31 March 2026 · Committee to Protect Journalists, 2025 killed report, released 25 February 2026.
Manifest is built as a set of refusals. No trackers, no central store a state can seize, no identity disclosed by default, no dependence on infrastructure that can be compelled. Offline-first is a survival requirement where networks get cut and visibility itself is dangerous, from Myanmar to Gaza, where documenting genocide needs infrastructure that outlives the forces it records.
Two things hold a movement's record up: memory that lasts, and participation that is earned. Manifest keeps the record, on your device first and verifiable years later. HRDAO, its governance research, gives communities a say that accrues through contribution and cannot be bought or sold.
Manifest is built for the people who defend rights and the spaces that hold communities together. It is civic and cultural infrastructure you can make your own, with values built into the architecture, from privacy by default to ownership of your own record. The same foundation can carry your work.
See the Amnesty International APAC beta → Read the Amnesty case study →Everything here is inspectable. The claims below link to the work behind them.
Work from Manifest and HRDAO reaches six venues across 2026, from accepted conference papers to a UCL bicentenary innovation challenge, spanning participatory democracy, science and technology studies, and civic technology.
For institutions licensing the studio, funders backing the work, and collaborators who want to contribute, write to manifeststudiocollective@proton.me. To try it now, continue as guest. What beta testers tell us shapes what ships next.
Each one opens as it clears review.
Manifest keeps no usage numbers. Nothing watches you, so there is nothing to count. The poster studio is open source, and the rest of the build is open to partners on request.
Make campaign posters and document what matters, all on your own device. No account, nothing leaves your phone until you choose to share it. Each record is signed so it cannot be altered without showing, and you can preserve it somewhere no single authority can take down.
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 can live on a shared network designed to outlast any one of them. No login required. No account to suspend.
The people doing the work should run the platform. Voting weight comes from consistent contribution rather than from buying tokens. Participation over 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 receipt. The signature makes the record tamper-evident, so anyone can check it hasn't been altered.
Open formAn editor that runs in your browser. No cloud, no account, nothing leaves your device. A 30-language studio, with BeHuman poster templates in 15 languages, native-speaker review in progress. Print-ready posters.
Open studioAt public launch, each campaign will have its own wallet for Bitcoin, Lightning, or crypto cash. 100% of a donation will go directly to the organiser; Manifest stays non-custodial and never holds 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
What Amnesty Malaysia and its partners are running right now. Find an action, download the poster, sign up, and share it. Each one is recorded as participation you can carry in once HRDAO goes live.
Exhibition
The Myanmar Peace Museum's exhibition on five years of resistance since the 2021 coup, shown in Malaysia for the first time. Photography, film, art, music, and personal artefacts. Supported by Amnesty International. Artwork by Vesha Naidu.
Open call
Run by FreedomFilm Network and Amnesty Malaysia. Learn from experienced advocates, connect with changemakers, and build an advocacy plan you can put to work in your own community.
Workshop
An introductory session on your right to peaceful assembly in Malaysia, with Azura Nasron, Executive Director of SUARAM. Held alongside the To Kill a Movement exhibition.
Youth workshop
A youth workshop by Liga Mahasiswa Malaysia on the legal landscape around peaceful assembly, with activists experienced in human rights and student organising.
Manifest records each action you take here on your device, and nowhere else. When HRDAO goes live, participation like this is recognised through HRT-UTL, a utility token that records verified contribution and is earned by taking part. The governance layer that turns sustained contribution into a say over decisions (HRT-GOV) is still in design. The list below is a local preview of how the record builds.
This map sits across two questions: where civic space is being shut down, and where rights aren't reaching the people who hold them. Drag the globe to rotate, then click any country to see its scores and the sources behind them.
Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ, June 2025, on HRMI civil and political data. Scores shown are HRMI's 2026 release (survey year 2025); the empowerment rights have fallen since 2023.
High-income state, OECD member, Pacific power. The empowerment rights have slipped since 2023: opinion and expression is down from 8.5 to 7.9, assembly and association from 8.1 to 7.7, and political participation has fallen furthest, from 8.5 to 7.6. Freedom from torture and ill-treatment stays the lowest of the nine civil and political scores at 6.8, and Māori are at or near the top of those most affected. These scores come from human rights defenders inside the country, and the direction of travel is down.
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 222 countries (2026 dataset, ESR through 2023).
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 (62 countries in the 2026 dataset) 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. Rights performance scores come from HRMI's 2026 release, rightstracker.org.
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 mapFour quick questions. Your results are drawn from the Commons Archive of Resistance, with nothing stored and no account.
Manifest frames the results. The Archive stays the single source of truth for the toolkit.
Looking wider? The Civic Tech Field Guide is a Creative Commons directory of the broader civic-tech field (opens externally).
Three are in active build, and three 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, participant-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.
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.
Draw letters by hand and build them into a simple typeface for your posters, all in the browser with nothing sent to a server. Early exploration, nothing built yet.
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.
We're in a testing phase. Your honest feedback, especially what confused you and what broke, is what makes this better. It takes 3–5 minutes. Answers are anonymous unless you add your email.
Your feedback helps us decide what to fix and build next. If you shared your email, we'll read it and may write back.
