Amnesty International welcomes this opportunity to address the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) on the occasion of its 71st ordinary session. Almost a year ago, as part of the Pegasus Project , media outlets, with the technical partnership of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, revealed how Pegasus spyware produced by cyber-surveillance company NSO Group has been systematically used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale