By Dr Sanae Fujita, Fellow of the Human Rights Centre, School of Law, University of Essex New research and analysis supports the UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye's findings from his 2017 Japan report and presents fresh cases pointing to need...
Professor Jackie Harrison, CFOM Chair, writes about the long history of media manipulation and fake news, and the staying power of quality journalism. This piece for The Conversation, published on the World Press Freedom Day 2018, marks also...
By Nadezda Azhgikhina, vice president of the European Federation of Journalists and board member of the Free Word Association. In 2017 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation handed down an exceptionally important decision. It struck down a series of...
Emma Heywood, a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Journalism Studies, wrote this article which has been published on The Conversation based on her first-hand experience of life in the West Bank, where her research is focused on the...
By Chris Elliott There are clear signs that hate speech is on the increase, often turbo charged by social media. The London Bridge attacks in July triggered a big spike in hate crimes with a significant amount of them being attacks in the street directed at British...
By Dejana Radisavljević In 1993 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY’) was established to deal with the war crimes committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In over two decades, the ICTY has convicted and...
By András Dési The Hungarian parliament recently adopted a new law forcing NGOs to register as ‘‘foreign-supported organization” if they receive more than 24,000 Euros from foreign donors per year. With this legislation the Hungarian government and the ruling...
By Petar Milin and Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi Media is in the grip of ‘soft-censorship’ and must break free for a democratic future After Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015, journalism there suffered an unprecedented crisis of integrity. Citizens no...