The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship – Act Two
The following article was first published by EURACTIV. The German NetzDG law to counter illegal online speech has become a prototype for internet censorship in…
Revisiting Section 66A: An Afterword To A Concluded Tale
On 24th March, 2015, the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as unconstitutional, in Shreya Singhal v.…
Freedom of Expression in Thailand During 2016
It is more than two years since the military seized control in Thailand and established a military junta called the National Council for Peace and…
“Freedom of Expression in the Age of Globalization” – Columbia Global Freedom of Expression is to launch a MOOC on edX on October 12, 2016
NEW YORK, New York, September 26, 2016 — Columbia Global Freedom of Expression is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its first-ever MOOC (massive…
Recent Freedom of Expression Developments in Scandinavia
This article first appeared on the National Law Review In Europe Scandinavia is a region known for very high standards when it comes to freedom…
Introductory Videos on our Case Law Database Available Now!
When the Global Freedom of Expression (GFoE) initiative was launched in 2014, the leading concerns facing freedom of expression were violence against journalists, arbitrary imprisonment,…
“Freedom of Expression and Information in the Time of Globalization” MOOC Re-Launch
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines freedom of expression as the right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and…
Oversight Board Case of Dehumanizing Speech against a Woman
Brazil: Litigating on the Free Flow of Information
It is important for you to know that the most notorious and emblematic case of Judicial censorship (still active!) in Brazil envolves the newspaper I…