On July 14, 2017, the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes was…
Magomednabi Magomedov, a Salafist imam, received a five-year prison term from a military court for giving an allegedly unlawful sermon in 2016 in Dagestan. To help…
Prosecutors in Turkey are hard at work putting journalists in jail for publishing articles critical of the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing their…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Ibero-American Network of Judicial Schools (RIAEJ), jointly with outstanding international partners, are pleased to…
Published in 2015, the report “Hate Speech and Incitement to Violence Against LGBTI Persons in the Americas” provides an overview of the Inter-American legal framework…
This report provides an overview of freedom of expression developments in Russia and Kazakhstan in 2016 by analyzing a select, but diverse, set of cases…
By Emil Weber The case of a Romanian who was sacked from his office job in Bucharest has created stronger privacy protection standards, thanks to…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the Guide for Judicial sustainable development with an emphasis on the SDG 16. Available online, this…
By Emil Weber A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment has backed a former prosecutor on his comments made in the press alleging corruption in the…
Cherif Bassiouni, one of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression’s experts, passed away last Monday, September 25, 2017. Bassiouni participated in the Justice for Free Expression…
