Freedom of expression is often thought of as an individual right guaranteed by legal texts. However, in groups and collectives, it manifests itself less as a right than as a situated, fragile and ...

Freedom of expression is one of the main means of making human rights violations visible, as well as their perpetrators, planners and those who protect those responsible. For these reasons, those in ...

Over the course of the last sixteen months, the public sphere has witnessed an assault on rights to free expression and freedom of assembly unlike anything since the Communist witch hunts and Lavender ...

Web adds, “Women journalists are victims of new forms of attacks and defamation, such as online harassment, cyberstalking, rape threats, trolling, or hacking. These aggressions are often more vicious ...

He reminded parliamentarians of international and regional standards, particularly Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which permits restrictions only when they are ...

The essential manifestation of existing is communicating. The first action of a regime on the road to dictatorship is to restrict freedom of communication, your right to exist and manifest yourself, ...

The wave of democratic backsliding, or autocratization, has been ongoing for 25 years and shows no sign of slowing down, according to the report, authored by a team lead by professor Staffan I ...

Two human rights organizations want the European Union to force Apple to remove all barriers to making third-party app stores — but it's an unnecessary demand that ignores that the iPhone remains the ...

The National Human Rights Commission held a discussion on the "Judgment Criteria for Hate Speech" at the Bankers Association Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul, on the 17th of last month. As hate speech targeting ...

In January of 2015, artist Tania Bruguera was detained by the Cuban government. Bruguera had planned to restage a performance artwork about freedom of speech in the iconic Plaza de la Revolución in ...

Persatuan Penulis Berbilang Bahasa (Pen Malaysia) strongly condemns the banning of “Memoir Shamsiah Fakeh: From Awas to the ...

KARACHI: Press freedom in Pakistan is under sustained pressure as censorship, economic constraints and direct restrictions ...