Council of Europe needs encouragement from NGOs to launch online database on serious violations of media freedom For many years the 47 member governments of the Council of Europe have had a blind spot about media freedom. They have been unwilling to give the go-ahead...
We should not underestate the seriousness of the government's attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance secrets. At stake is not only what the state is entitled to do to the public, but what journalists are entitled to do to expose it and perform the vital...
Speech by William Horsley' delivered during the special Hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Media Freedom in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. Read more: The state of media freedom in Europe
June 2013 may go down as the month when Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost the image of political invincibility that helped him to win three landslide elections and mould the country in his image. If so, he may well blame social media, which has carried...
A cold shower on Brian Leveson’s blueprint for restraining the British press has come from the secretary-general of the Council of Europe. Thorbjorn Jagland has told the FT “You do not need a new law to say that phone hacking is illegal. It’s already a crime… and you...
William Horsley's full text of statement on the discussion on Approval of UN Plan of Action on safety of journalists and the issue of impunity. William Horsley: The Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield conducts research to promote adherence...
Nadezda Azhgikhina, Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists, responds to questions from William Horsley for the political aspects study of the initiative on impunity and the rule of law (received 21/4/2011) Reference material for the Working Conference on Safety...
Bill Bowring responds to questions from William Horsley for the political aspects study of the initiative on impunity and the rule of law (received 8/5/2011) Bill Bowring is Chair of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) and Professor of Law at Birkbeck...