"Financial agency is a human right," says : "Inflation can wipe out savings. Not only activists have seen their bank accounts frozen. For millions of people, access to money still depends on documents, geography or political permission. This newly edited documentary explores seven human rights through the lens of Bitcoin and asks what changes when people can hold and transfer value without asking a bank or government." Watch the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17azbKbNkZs

Why Bitcoin matters: "The ability to bar access to the financial system has become a powerful and underappreciated lever of political control. Individuals and organizations can be summarily "debanked" by being excluded from banking services, subjected to arbitrary account closures, or prevented from transacting across borders. These measures frequently occur without formal charges, judicial proceedings, or public visibility, effectively neutralizing political actors without the reputational damage that overt repression does to those who impose repression. Financial exclusion achieves what imprisonment once did, and at far lower political cost." — Full article: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/993648

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Precisely . This reality drives our mission at HakiFedha: a multilingual Bitcoin and privacy knowledge hub for African activists, journalists, researchers, and human rights defenders operating under the threat of surveillance and censorship.