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Factsheets The factsheets are tools created to complement our Special Collection papers of the case law on freedom of expression, by presenting an overview of…
Factsheets The factsheets are tools created to complement our Special Collection papers of the case law on freedom of expression, by presenting an overview of…
Relaunch: Catalysts for Collaboration, a resource to advance digital rights through collaborative strategic litigation The website offers best practices and new case studies in English,…
INTRODUCTION In the lead-up of March 4, 2018 Italian elections and resting upon the experience of the last elections in the UK, France, Germany and…
This article was originally published by IFEX in recognition of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (IDEI) and is reposted here…
In April 2021, Mr. Marcos Levy Virgo submitted a request requiring environmental information to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica. Through this…
Though the judgment of the majority in the present matter does expand expression on merits, the extent to which it does so could have been enlarged had the reasons offered by Judge Power-Forde’s in her partly Dissenting Opinion – on the applicant’s entitlement to more than a mere moral victory due to the anxiety suffered by him on being convicted for exercising his freedom of expression and on the need for the affirmation of the principles established in Colombani and Others v. France [ECHR] (2002) 51279/99 – formed part of the reasoning and decision put forth by the majority.
On August 12, 2015, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, sent an order to internet operators to ban…
On October 1, 2015, Dr. Agnès Callamard, the Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, addressed the United Nations in New York regarding ways to…
The U.K. First-Tier Tribunal of the General Regulatory Chamber for Information Rights held that a Transitional Risk Register (“TRR”), relating to sweeping changes to the country’s National Health System (“NHS”), should be disclosed under The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) but that a Strategic Risk Register, relating to the changes, was exempt from disclosure. The court found that a public authority must release risk registers evaluating health policy if the request is made when policy consultation and formulation has been largely completed, but not during a period of consultation and when the register includes more sensitive policy information. In the present case, the Court ruled in favor of the public interest in transparency because at the time of the TRR request, the Report largely covered operational and implementation risks being faced by the Department of Health (“DOH”), rather than direct policy considerations. On the other hand, the Court found that the public interest in the Government having safe space to formulate policy took precedence at the time of the SRR request because the request was made at a time when the government was engaged in ongoing policy deliberations.
The Freedom of Expression Association (“İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği – IFÖD”), based in Istanbul, published Right NOT to Be Forgotten on the Internet: Freedom of Expression…