Op-Ed: Why did development banks stay silent when people who spoke out about COVID-19 responses were attacked?
Global pandemic response falters as clients of worlds’ biggest banks silence medical workers, journalists and activists with impunity. By Lorena Cotza, Silvia Chocarro, Matthew Redding…
Call for Proposals: CYRILLA Collaborative Announces Advocacy Initiative Grants – Deadline Extended
Update: the deadline has been extended until August 15, 2023. The CYRILLA Collaborative has announced a call for proposals. Through the Centre for Intellectual Property…
Amicus brief urges New York court to ensure farmworkers enjoy the right to organize
New York Law Violates Farmworkers’ Human Rights, says Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic Amicus brief urges NY court to ensure farmworkers receive the same…
Towards ending impunity for crimes against journalists in Italy: a positive trend in the domestic courts
On November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the UN Secretary General António Guterres has invited the world to pay…
Bahrain: An Analysis of the Legitimacy of Charges Against Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
Download Full Statement in English or Arabic On January 6, 2016, Bahrain’s authorities charged Sheikh Maytham Al Salman, a human rights defender and cleric,…
Raif Badawi Award For Courageous Journalists 2020: Keynote by Agnes Callamard
RAIF BADAWI AWARD For Courageous Journalists 2020 The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Keynote Speech Agnes Callamard, Director, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression; UN Special…
Third Time Lucky?: Section 66A and the Afterlife of Strategic Litigation
On March 24, 2015, the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as unconstitutional, in Shreya Singhal v.…
Arrest of Inter-Faith Activist and Columbia Global Freedom of Expression expert Maytham Al Salman
New York, 10 August 2015 – Columbia Global Freedom of Expression urges the Bahrain Government to drop, immediately and unconditionally, all charges and the travel…
Resetting the Relationship Between Police and Press: New Guidelines
This article was first published by the European Journalist Observatory and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, and is reposted here with permission and thanks. The…