Call for Papers: UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2023 Academic Conference
The Role of Academia in Protecting Freedom of Expression as a Driver for Other Human Rights Location: MLK Conference Room 527, located in Riverside Church,…
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…
NALSA Judgment: Critique of the Indian Perspective Beyond the Adams-And-Eves Worldview
This article was originally published in the Georgetown University Undergraduate Law Review and is reproduced here with permission and thanks. Fifty Eight… Beyond the man-woman…
U.S. First Amendment: Opportunities and Challenges
The First Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights) was ratified in 1791, but largely ignored by the U.S. Supreme Court for 128…
H.R. Dipendra: Trends in Freedom of Expression in 2015 in Malaysia and Singapore
Following are excerpts from H.R. Dipendra’s presentation for the 2016 Justice for Free Expression Conference discussing trends in freedom of expression in Malaysia and Singapore.…
Oman: Freedom of expression continues to be targeted
This report was originally published by The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and is re-posted here with permission and thanks. Freedom of expression remains…
Russia’s Double Standard on Dealing with “Fake” News
Russia’s efforts to flood the media landscape in both the United States and the European Union with hacked emails and fake news have been well…
Pre-trial detention for terrorist charges in Turkey: the case against Cumhuriyet’s journalist Ahmet Şık
Given the daily arrests in Turkey, and the increasing purges against critics and opponents for alleged anti-terrorism offences, it is worth considering the judicial proceedings…
Hate speech: The Dark Twin of Free Speech
On October 20 2014, an unemployed fifty-seven year old white Norwegian man entered a supermarket in an Eastern suburb of the Norwegian capital of Oslo.…