Posted by chrysadag | Feb 1, 2010 | International Director's Column |
Spending ten days in East Asia prompts me to these thoughts about the variety of methods that governments and other powerful forces employ to stop journalists from reporting things they are determined to suppress. It’s the...
Read MoreOn 27 January 2010 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation on Respect for Media Freedom, expressing alarm at the murders of at least 20 journalists in Europe since 2007 and setting up new...
Read MoreOn 10 December, International Human Rights Day, Viewpoint examined two threats to human rights on the Internet — from cybercrime and from the actions of governments and others to limit Freedom of Expression online. The...
Read MoreThis research theme has two parallel tracks. The first track examines different legal and policy regimes, different forms of regulation and codes of conduct and the concomitant risks of direct (and indirect) censorship; the...
Read MoreThe conference explored the part played by the popular demand for free expression as a factor in the anti-communist revolutions, and assessed the evidence that a widespread retreat of press and political freedom has taken place in recent years across many parts of post-Cold War Europe and Russia.
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