Your email, social media, and work accounts hold conversations, contacts, and information that others trust you to protect. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, DPI encourages you to strengthen your account security: 🔐 Use long, unique passwords for every account. 🗝️ Use a reputable password manager to generate and store them securely. 📲 Enable two-factor authentication wherever available. 🚫 Keep passwords and verification codes private. For human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society organisations, protecting an account also helps protect the people connected to it. Start today: replace a reused password and enable two-factor authentication on your main email account. Save this reminder and share it with your team. Protect Voices | Empower Action | Ensure Safety #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #PasswordSecurity #DigitalSecurity #DPI

“Remind me later” can become a habit. Software updates often fix security weaknesses in the devices and applications we depend on. Check your phone, computer, browser and work apps today. For teams, agree on who checks updates and when. Give digital security a place on your calendar. #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #DigitalSecurity #DPI

💡 DID YOU KNOW? Your password is only one layer of protection. If someone steals it, multifactor authentication (MFA) adds another check before they can access your account. For organisations, that extra layer helps protect sensitive conversations, contacts, and information entrusted to you. 🔐 Enable MFA on your email, social media, and work accounts. 🚫 Never share verification codes. 📲 Never approve a login request you did not initiate. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, take a moment to check your settings. Have you enabled MFA on your main email account? Protect Voices | Empower Action | Ensure Safety #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #DigitalSecurity #DPI

When someone asks “How are you?”, does your answer include how you feel online? The anxiety when a notification arrives. The pressure to always be available. The comments that stay with you long after you close the app. The scrolling that leaves you feeling more drained than connected. Some of what we carry follows us off-screen. This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we invite you to pause and ask: How is my digital life affecting how I feel? At Defenders Protection Initiative, we created DPI Pulse to help you check in on your digital wellness. Make a little space today to reflect. Take the test here: defendersprotection.org/digi… @accessnow @MottFoundation @FordFoundation @ICNL

Happy Independence Day, Uganda! 🇺🇬 As we capture today’s celebrations, let’s protect the privacy of those celebrating with us. Ask before posting someone’s photo. Check the background for private information. Consider whether a location tag could expose someone. Responsible sharing helps keep our communities safer online. #UgandaIndependence #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #Ugandaat64 #Uganda64

In Loving Memory of Kiprotich George Cheywa Executive Director, @Kacsoa_ We are deeply saddened by the passing of Kiprotich George Cheywa, a dedicated civil society leader whose commitment to community development, justice, and social transformation touched many lives. His leadership, service, and passion for uplifting communities will be remembered with great respect and gratitude. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and the entire KACSOA fraternity during this difficult time. May his soul rest in eternal peace.

You receive an urgent message from a colleague: “Please open this link now.” The name is familiar, but the request is unexpected. What would you do first? This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, DPI wants to hear how you handle these everyday moments. What would make you suspicious? #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #DigitalSecurity #DPI

We’re at #FIFAfrica26, and we’d love to meet you! Visit the Defenders Protection Initiative exhibition to explore our work, interact with our team and exchange ideas on digital security, digital wellbeing and protecting civic spaces. Working on digital rights? Looking for practical ways to strengthen your organisation’s digital safety? Have an idea for collaboration? Let’s talk! Stop by, bring your questions and be part of the engagement. Protect Voices | Empower Action | Ensure Safety

Today, young voices take the stage to tackle a difficult question: how do we fight financial crime while protecting human rights and the rule of law? Join the Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge grand finale on 26 September, 12:00 pm, at IUEA Kampala, Smart Room 3. Come listen. Come question. Come engage. 🎤 #AML #CFT #antimoneylaundering

Meet Tumusiime Allan, representing St. Francis Schools of Health Sciences at tomorrow’s Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge. 🎤 A medical student, debate trainer and youth leader, Allan is interested in how financial institutions detect suspicious cross-border transactions. 📍 IUEA, Smart Room 3 🕛 26 September, 12:00 pm

Meet Nimurungi Asiimwe Praise, representing Makerere University at tomorrow’s AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge. 🎤 The chairperson of Makerere’s Debating Union is interested in how AI can help detect financial crime and how institutions respond. 📍 IUEA, Smart Room 3 🕛 26 Sept, noon

Meet Onyait Churchill, representing Kyambogo University at tomorrow’s Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge. 🎤 A business student and founder of Friends of Churchill Orators Hub, he is keen to explore how businesses can spot and respond to money laundering risks. 📍 IUEA, Smart Room 3 🕛 26 Sept, noon

Meet Kirabo Pearl Gift, representing Kampala International University at tomorrow’s Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge. 🎤 A medical student and public speaking champion, Kirabo will explore how strong measures against financial crime can respect human rights. 📍 IUEA, Smart Room 3 🕛 26 September, 12:00 pm

Meet Nimusiima Tracy Katuntu, representing Makerere University Business School at tomorrow’s AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge grand finale. 🎤 A public speaker, poet and former Uganda National Debate Team member, Tracy will bring an international business perspective to the stage. 📍 IUEA, Smart Room 3 🕛 26 September, 12:00 pm #AML #CTF

Meet Daphine Kuhirwa, representing Uganda Christian University at tomorrow’s Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge grand finale. She’ll explore how the fight against financial crime can uphold due process and individual rights. 📍 IUEA, Kampala | Smart Room 3 🕛 26 September, 12:00 pm #AMLCFT #PublicSpeaking #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw

The results are in, and the stage is set! 🎤 Congratulations to the six speakers who qualified through the video submissions for the Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge 2026 grand finale. Join us on 26 September 2026 at the International University of East Africa, Kampala, as they make their case and put their public speaking skills to the test. Who will command the room? Come witness the grand finale! 🏆 #AMLCFT #PublicSpeaking #InterUniversityChallenge #Uganda

Our team was in Lira conducting Digital Security Clinics with Passion Aid Foundation Africa and Human Rights Initiative. The sessions focused on strengthening participants’ practical digital security skills, increasing awareness of online risks, and supporting safer digital practices for individuals and organisations working in civic and human rights spaces. Through practical discussions and hands-on learning, participants explored ways to better protect their devices, accounts, communications, and sensitive information from common digital threats. At Defenders Protection Initiative, we continue to take digital security support closer to organisations and communities, helping human rights defenders and civil society actors navigate an increasingly complex digital environment with greater confidence and resilience. Secure Online. Well Offline. #DigitalSecurity #CyberSecurity #DigitalSafety #HumanRightsDefenders #CivilSociety #DigitalResilience #Lira #Uganda #DPI