Call for Applications: Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute July 30- August 10
Call for Applications: Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute July 30- August 10 APPLY NOW! The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and…
ApTI: Legislative and Jurisprudential Guidelines for Internet Freedom
Introduction The Internet has significantly changed our lives in the past years in many areas, including the way we access and publish information. But most…
Columbia University Launches Freedom of Expression Digital Teaching Portal
New York, N.Y. (Mar. 28, 2019) — Columbia Global Freedom of Expression has launched a new teaching portal Freedom of Expression Without Frontiers, in partnership with 10 Universities and…
Rights Groups in Pakistan File Petition for Public Hearing on the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015
Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015, first proposed by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology last April in an effort to update…
Unity, honesty, dialogue, and compassion can overcome violent extremism
Dear friends and colleagues, The horrific events that occurred this past weekend underscore the importance, urgency, and necessity to intensify efforts to respond to and…
SLAPPs’ 5 W’s: a background of the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
Following the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, a group of European MEPs is calling on the EU Commission to promote an anti-SLAPP EU…
Litigation Developments in Tunisia 2015
Brief View on General Context Throughout 2015 Tunisia continued to mark progress in the area of human rights, rule of law and transitional justice. Promotion…
Military Electoral Authoritarianism in Egypt
Texas A&M University School of Law July 18, 2016 Forthcoming, Elections Law Journal (Spring 2017) Abstract: Authoritarian regimes hold elections not to democratize, but to…
Refusal to Give Access to ‘Confidential’ Information About Politicians Violated NGO’s Article 10 Rights
This post was originally published in Strasbourg Observers and is reproduced with permission and thanks. Introduction On 26 March 2020, the European Court of Human…